Moslem \Mos"lem\, n.; pl. Moslems, or collectively Moslem.
[Ar. muslim a true believer in the Mohammedan faith, fr.
salama to submit to God, to resign one's self to the divine
will. Cf. Islam, Mussulman.]
A Mussulman; an orthodox Mohammedan. [Written also muslim.]
``Heaps of slaughtered Moslem.'' --Macaulay.
They piled the ground with Moslem slain. --Halleck.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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