[mawrs] 
| an ornamented metal clasp or brooch for fastening a cope in front. |
[mawrs] | 1. | Jed⋅i⋅di⋅ah [jed-i-dahy-uh] , 1761–1826, U.S. geographer and Congregational clergyman (father of Samuel F. B. Morse). |
| 2. | Samuel F(in⋅ley) B(reese) [fin-lee breez] , 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. |
| 3. | Morse code. |
| 4. | a male given name, form of Maurice. |
| 5. | noting or pertaining to the Morse code or the system of communications using it. |
| 6. | pertaining to any code resembling the Morse code. |
| Morse (môrs) American painter and inventor. A portraitist whose subjects included Lafayette, he refined (1838) and patented (1854) the telegraph and developed the telegraphic code that bears his name. |