morse

UK: /ˈmɔː^rs/ US: 'Morse', 'morse': (môrs)

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morse  (môrs), n. [Eccles.]

1. Religion an ornamented metal clasp or brooch for fastening a cope in front.

• Latin morsus fastening, literally, act of biting, equivalent. to mord(ēre) to bite + -tus, suffix of verb, verbal action
• Old French
• late Middle English mors 1375–1425

Morse  (môrs), n. 

Jed•i•di•ah  (jed′i dī′ə), 1761–1826, U.S. geographer and Congregational clergyman (father of Samuel F. B. Morse). Samuel F(in•ley) B(reese)  (fin′lē brēz), 1791–1872, U.S. artist and inventor: developer of the first successful telegraph in the U.S.;
inventor of the most commonly used telegraphic code system.
1. Cryptography See Morse code. 
2. a male given name, form of Maurice. 

adj. 

3. Cryptography noting or pertaining to the Morse code or the system of communications using it.
4. Cryptography pertaining to any code resembling the Morse code.