a telegraph code in which letters and numbers are represented by strings of dots and dashes ( short and long signals)

United States portrait painter who patented the telegraph and developed the Morse code ( 1791- 1872)

The walrus. See Walrus.

A clasp for fastening garments in front.

The walrus or sea- horse. See WALRUS.

Walrus or sea- horse.

The sea- horse or walrus.

In eccles. costume, the clasp or fastening of a cope, frequently made of the precious metals and set with jewels.

Joseph Morse was a native of Delham, Mass. – The-Chignecto-Isthmus-and-its-first-settlers by Trueman, Howard

Charlie Jones said that in a launch a man could rest his back against something, and Morse said that in a launch a man could rest his neck. – Frenzied Fiction by Stephen Leacock

Morse, being at my house, ... – Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Allen Putnam

They were talking Morse! – The Finding of Haldgren by Charles Willard Diffin

Jack was familiar with the Morse and Continental codes. – The Radio Boys with the Revenue Guards by Gerald Breckenridge

Molly felt truly sorry for her, and suddenly realized that Miss Morse, with all of her assurance, was little more than a girl herself. – Molly Brown's Post-Graduate Days by Nell Speed

Of those who are yet living was Morse, the inventor of the electric telegraph; Durand, then, one of the first of engravers, and now no less illustrious as a painter; Henry James Anderson, whose acquirements might awaken the envy of the ripest scholars of the old world; Halleck, the poet and wit; Verplanck, who has given the world the best edition of Shakspeare for general readers; Dr. King, now at the head of Columbia College, and his two immediate predecessors in that office. – Precaution by James Fenimore Cooper

The Boy Scouts use the Morse, don't they?" – The Boy Scouts On The Range by Lieut. Howard Payson

They say a Morse telegraphic key has been sounded by spirit hands. – The Shadow World by Hamlin Garland

Do you know what the Morse Code is? – Pee-wee Harris by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

What did Mr. Morse say? – The Wide Awake Girls in Winsted by Katharine Ellis Barrett

I wish I'd been kind to her before," she continued, her heart aching with the remembrance of the little lonely figure, and the big, hollow dinner- pail; " but I'm going to be her friend now, always, and you can be friends with us or not, just as you please;" and turning from the astonished Ada, Lucy Berry marched out of the schoolroom, fearing she should cry if she stayed, and sure that if there were any more beauties for her in the white box, her stanch friend, Frank Morse, would take care of them for her. – Jewel's Story Book by Clara Louise Burnham

White and dusty, the streets looked like innumerable strips of Morse telegraph paper- the people the dots, the vehicles the dashes. – The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier by Edgar Beecher Bronson

Well, I'll send you some, Mrs. Morse. – Patty's Success by Carolyn Wells

Morse looked at his white, supple hands and felt of his smooth chin. – They of the High Trails by Hamlin Garland

A fine portrait of General John Stark, painted in 1830 by Samuel F. B. Morse, the inventor of the telegraph, is hung on the wall at the right. – Historic Homes by Mary H. Northend

We relieved the monotony a little by whistling to each other in the Morse code what we thought of the Huns for putting us there. – 'Brother Bosch', an Airman's Escape from Germany by Gerald Featherstone Knight

Everything that made the so- called Morse telegraph a success had long before been described and demonstrated by Henry. – Electricity and Magnetism Nature's Miracles, Vol. III. by Elisha Gray