molly

Any of several tropical and subtropical live-bearing fishes of the genus Poecilia of the Americas, often kept in home aquariums.

The mallemuck or fulmar, Fulmarus glacialis. See fulmar.

In India, a gardener or one of the caste of gardeners. Also mallee.

In the printers’ game of jelling, a throw of quadrats which exposes only the unnicked sides; hence, any useless work with types in a composing-room.

A familiar form of the feminine name

[lowercase; pl. mollies (-iz).] The wagtail, a bird: as, the yellow molly (the yellow wagtail); the molly wash-dish (the pied wagtail).

Same as mollemoke.

A pet or colloquial name for Mary.

See Cottontail.

A member of a similar association of Irishmen organized in the anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania, about 1854, for the purpose of intimidating employers and officers of the law, and for avenging themselves by murder on persons obnoxious to them. The society was broken up by criminal prosecutions in 1876.