mournival

English

Alternative forms

• murnival

Etymology

Perhaps from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French mornifle (“a card game”).

Noun

mournival (plural mournivals)

1. (obsolete) In the game of gleek, four cards of the same face value.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “mournival”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)