Mormon
    adj 1: of or pertaining to or characteristic of the Mormon
           Church; "Mormon leaders"; "the former Mormon practice of
           polygamy"
    n 1: the ancient prophet whose writings were revealed to Joseph
         Smith who founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day
         Saints
    2: a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
       [syn: Latter-Day Saint, Mormon]

Puffin \Puf"fin\ (p[u^]f"f[i^]n), n. [Akin to puff.]
   1. (Zool.) An arctic sea bird Fratercula arctica) allied to
      the auks, and having a short, thick, swollen beak, whence
      the name; -- called also bottle nose, cockandy,
      coulterneb, marrot, mormon, pope, and sea
      parrot.
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   Note: The name is also applied to other related species, as
         the horned puffin (Fratercula corniculata), the
         tufted puffin (Lunda cirrhata), and the razorbill.
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   Manx puffin, the Manx shearwater. See under Manx.
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   2. (Bot.) The puffball.
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   3. A sort of apple. [Obs.] --Rider's Dict. (1640).
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Mormon \Mor"mon\, n. (Eccl.)
   A member of a sect, called the Reorganized Church of Jesus of
   Latterday Saints, which has always rejected polygamy. It was
   organized in 1852, and is represented in about forty States
   and Territories of the United States.
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Mormon \Mor"mon\, a.
   Of or pertaining to the Mormons; as, the Mormon religion;
   Mormon practices.
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Mormon \Mor"mon\, prop. n. [NL., fr. Gr. mormw`n monster,
   bugbear.] (Zool.)
   (a) A genus of sea birds, having a large, thick bill; the
       puffin.
   (b) The mandrill.
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Mormon \Mor"mon\, prop. n. (Eccl.)
   One of a Christian denomination (The Church of Jesus Christ
   of Latter-day Saints) in the United States, followers of
   Joseph Smith, who professed to have found an addition to the
   Bible, engraved on golden plates, called the

   Book of Mormon, first published in 1830. The Mormons
      believe in polygamy, and their hierarchy of apostles,
      etc., has control of civil and religious matters.
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   Note: The Mormons call their religious organization The
         Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Its head
         claims to receive revelations of God's will, and to
         have certain supernatural powers. The church
         headquarters are in Salt Lake City, Utah. They form a
         substantial fraction of the population of Utah, and at
         the end of the 20th centrury their numbers were
         increasing due to active proselytization.
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