mole
9 definitions found
mole - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Mole \Mole\, n. [AS. m[=a]l; akin to OHG. meil, Goth. mail Cf.
Mail a spot.]
1. A spot; a stain; a mark which discolors or disfigures.
[Obs.] --Piers Plowman.
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2. A spot, mark, or small permanent protuberance on the human
body; esp., a spot which is dark-colored, from which
commonly issue one or more hairs.
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Mole \Mole\, n. [L. mola.]
A mass of fleshy or other more or less solid matter generated
in the uterus.
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Mole \Mole\, n. [F. m[^o]le, L. moles. Cf. Demolish,
Emolument, Molest.]
A mound or massive work formed of masonry or large stones,
etc., laid in the sea, often extended either in a right line
or an arc of a circle before a port which it serves to defend
from the violence of the waves, thus protecting ships in a
harbor; also, sometimes, the harbor itself. --Brande & C.
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Mole \Mole\, n. [OE. molle, either shortened fr. moldwerp, or
from the root of E. mold soil: cf. D. mol, OD. molworp. See
Moldwarp.]
1. (Zool.) Any insectivore of the family Talpidae. They
have minute eyes and ears, soft fur, and very large and
strong fore feet.
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Note: The common European mole, or moldwarp (Talpa Europaea
), is noted for its extensive burrows. The
common American mole, or shrew mole (Scalops aquaticus
), and star-nosed mole (Condylura cristata)
have similar habits.
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Note: In the Scriptures, the name is applied to two
unindentified animals, perhaps the chameleon and mole
rat.
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2. A plow of peculiar construction, for forming underground
drains. [U.S.]
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3. (fig.)A spy who lives for years an apparently normal life
(to establish a cover) before beginning his spying
activities.
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Duck mole. See under Duck.
Golden mole. See Chrysochlore.
Mole cricket (Zool.), an orthopterous insect of the genus
Gryllotalpa, which excavates subterranean galleries, and
throws up mounds of earth resembling those of the mole. It
is said to do damage by injuring the roots of plants. The
common European species (Gryllotalpa vulgaris), and the
American (Gryllotalpa borealis), are the best known.
Mole rat (Zool.), any one of several species of Old World
rodents of the genera Spalax, Georychus, and several
allied genera. They are molelike in appearance and habits,
and their eyes are small or rudimentary.
Mole shrew (Zool.), any one of several species of
short-tailed American shrews of the genus Blarina, esp.
Blarina brevicauda.
Water mole, the duck mole.
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mole \mole\ n.
A quantity of a substance equal to the molecular weight of a
substance expressed in grams; a gram molecule; the basic unit
of amount of substance adopted under the System International
d'Unites; as, he added two moles of sodium chloride to the
medium.
Syn: gram molecule, mol.
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Mole \Mole\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Moled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Moling.]
1. To form holes in, as a mole; to burrow; to excavate; as,
to mole the earth.
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2. To clear of molehills. [Prov. Eng.] --Pegge.
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mole - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :
mole
n 1: the molecular weight of a substance expressed in grams; the
basic unit of amount of substance adopted under the Systeme
International d'Unites [syn: gram molecule, mole,
mol]
2: a spy who works against enemy espionage [syn: counterspy,
mole]
3: spicy sauce often containing chocolate
4: a small congenital pigmented spot on the skin
5: a protective structure of stone or concrete; extends from
shore into the water to prevent a beach from washing away
[syn: breakwater, groin, groyne, mole, bulwark,
seawall, jetty]
6: small velvety-furred burrowing mammal having small eyes and
fossorial forefeet
mole - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :
Mole
Heb. tinshameth (Lev. 11:30), probably signifies some species of
lizard (rendered in R.V., "chameleon"). In Lev. 11:18, Deut.
14:16, it is rendered, in Authorized Version, "swan" (R.V.,
"horned owl").
The Heb. holed (Lev. 11:29), rendered "weasel," was probably
the mole-rat. The true mole (Talpa Europoea) is not found in
Palestine. The mole-rat (Spalax typhlus) "is twice the size of
our mole, with no external eyes, and with only faint traces
within of the rudimentary organ; no apparent ears, but, like the
mole, with great internal organs of hearing; a strong, bare
snout, and with large gnawing teeth; its colour a pale slate;
its feet short, and provided with strong nails; its tail only
rudimentary."
In Isa. 2:20, this word is the rendering of two words _haphar
peroth_, which are rendered by Gesenius "into the digging of
rats", i.e., rats' holes. But these two Hebrew words ought
probably to be combined into one (lahporperoth) and translated
"to the moles", i.e., the rat-moles. This animal "lives in
underground communities, making large subterranean chambers for
its young and for storehouses, with many runs connected with
them, and is decidedly partial to the loose debris among ruins
and stone-heaps, where it can form its chambers with least
trouble."
mole - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
265 Moby Thesaurus words for "mole":
abutment, anchorage, anchorage ground, arc-boutant, arch dam,
backstop, bamboo curtain, bank, bar, barrage, barrier, basin, bat,
beam, bear-trap dam, beaver dam, benign tumor, berth, bilge,
birthmark, blackhead, blain, blaze, bleb, blemish, blind man,
blister, blob, blotch, boom, boss, bow, brand, breakwater,
breastwork, brick wall, bubble, buffer, bulb, bulge, bulkhead,
bulla, bulwark, bump, bunch, burl, button, buttress, buttress pier,
buttressing, cahot, callosity, callus, cancer, carcinoma,
caste mark, check, checkmark, chine, cicatrix, clump, cofferdam,
comedo, condyle, convex, corn, crack, crater, craze, cut, cyst,
dam, dapple, defacement, defect, defense, deformation, deformity,
dike, discoloration, disfiguration, disfigurement, distortion,
ditch, dock, dockage, dockyard, dot, dowel, dry dock, ear, earmark,
earthwork, embankment, engraving, excrescence, fault, fence,
flange, flap, flaw, fleck, flick, flying buttress, freckle,
fungosity, fungus, gall, gash, gate, gnarl, graving, gravity dam,
groin, growth, hack, handle, hanging buttress, harbor, harborage,
haven, hemangioma, hickey, hill, hump, hunch, hydraulic-fill dam,
intumescence, iron curtain, jam, jetty, jog, joggle, jot, jutty,
keloid, kink, knob, knot, knur, knurl, landing, landing place,
landing stage, leaping weir, lentigo, levee, lip, logjam, loop,
lump, macula, malignant growth, marina, mark, marking,
metastatic tumor, milium, milldam, moat, moorings, morbid growth,
mottle, mound, mountain, needle scar, neoplasm, nevus, nick,
nonmalignant tumor, notch, nub, nubbin, nubble, outgrowth,
papilloma, parapet, patch, peg, pier, pier buttress, pimple, pit,
pock, pockmark, point, polka dot, port, port-wine mark,
port-wine stain, portcullis, prick, protected anchorage,
proud flesh, puncture, pustule, quay, rampart, retaining wall, rib,
ridge, rift, ring, road, roadblock, roads, roadstead,
rock-fill dam, sarcoma, scab, scar, scarification, score, scotch,
scratch, scratching, seaport, seawall, sebaceous cyst, shipyard,
shoulder, shutter dam, slip, speck, speckle, spine, splash, split,
splotch, spot, stain, stigma, stone wall, strawberry mark, stud,
sty, style, tab, tattoo, tattoo mark, the blind, the sightless,
the unseeing, tick, tittle, track, tubercle, tubercule, tumor,
twist, verruca, vesicle, wale, wall, warp, wart, watermark, weal,
weir, welt, wen, wharf, whitehead, wicket dam, work
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