mote

9 definitions found

mote - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Mote \Mote\, v.
     See 1st Mot. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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  Mote \Mote\, n. [See Moot, a meeting.] [Obs., except in a few
     combinations or phrases.]
     1. A meeting of persons for discussion; as, a wardmote in the
        city of London.
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     2. A body of persons who meet for discussion, esp. about the
        management of affairs; as, a folkmote.
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     3. A place of meeting for discussion.
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     Mote bell, the bell rung to summon to a mote. [Obs.]
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  Mote \Mote\, n.
     The flourish sounded on a horn by a huntsman. See Mot, n.,
     3, and Mort. --Chaucer.
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  Mote \Mote\, n. [OE. mot, AS. mot.]
     A small particle, as of floating dust; anything proverbially
     small; a speck.
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           The little motes in the sun do ever stir, though there
           be no wind.                              --Bacon.
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           We are motes in the midst of generations. --Landor.
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  Mot \Mot\ (m[=o]t), v. [Sing. pres. ind. Mot, Mote, Moot
     (m[=o]t), pl. Mot, Mote, Moote, pres. subj. Mote;
     imp. Moste.] [See Must, v.] [Obs.]
     May; must; might.
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           He moot as well say one word as another  --Chaucer.
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           The wordes mote be cousin to the deed.   --Chaucer.
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           Men moot [i.e., one only] give silver to the poore
           freres.                                  --Chaucer.
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     So mote it be, so be it; amen; -- a phrase in some rituals,
        as that of the Freemasons.
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  Moot \Moot\, n. [AS. m[=o]t, gem[=o]t, a meeting; -- usually in
     comp.] [Written also mote.]
     1. A meeting for discussion and deliberation; esp., a meeting
        of the people of a village or district, in Anglo-Saxon
        times, for the discussion and settlement of matters of
        common interest; -- usually in composition; as, folk-moot.
        --J. R. Green.
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     2. [From Moot, v.] A discussion or debate; especially, a
        discussion of fictitious causes by way of practice.
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              The pleading used in courts and chancery called
              moots.                                --Sir T.
                                                    Elyot.
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     Moot case, a case or question to be mooted; a disputable
        case; an unsettled question. --Dryden.
  
     Moot court, a mock court, such as is held by students of
        law for practicing the conduct of law cases.
  
     Moot point, a point or question to be debated; a doubtful
        question.
  
     to make moot v. t. to render moot[2]; to moot[3].
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mote - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  mote
      n 1: (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything [syn: atom,
           molecule, particle, corpuscle, mote, speck]

mote - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

  Mote
  (Gr. karphos, something dry, hence a particle of wood or chaff,
  etc.). A slight moral defect is likened to a mote (Matt. 7:3-5;
  Luke 6:41, 42).

mote - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  128 Moby Thesaurus words for "mote":
     ace, acropolis, air, atom, bastion, beachhead, bit, black sheep,
     blemish, blockhouse, bridgehead, bubble, bunker, castle, chaff,
     chip, citadel, cobweb, cork, crumb, dab, dole, donjon, dot, down,
     dram, dribble, driblet, drop, droplet, dust, dwarf, ether, fairy,
     farthing, fasthold, fastness, feather, fleck, flue, fluff,
     flyspeck, foam, foreign body, foreign intruder, fort, fortress,
     fragment, froth, fuzz, garrison, garrison house, gnat, gobbet,
     gossamer, grain, granule, groat, hair, handful, hold, impurity,
     intruder, iota, jot, keep, little, little bit, martello,
     martello tower, microbe, microorganism, midge, minim, minimum,
     minutia, minutiae, misfit, mite, modicum, molecule, monkey wrench,
     motte, nutshell, oddball, ounce, particle, pebble, peel,
     peel tower, pillbox, pinch, pinhead, pinpoint, pittance, point,
     post, rath, safehold, scrap, scruple, sliver, smidgen, smitch,
     snip, snippet, speck, splinter, sponge, spoonful, spot, spume,
     stone, straw, strong point, stronghold, thimbleful, thistledown,
     tiny bit, tittle, tower, tower of strength, trifling amount,
     trivia, vanishing point, ward, weed, whit