Motes
[məʊts]
Examples
- In the beginning of dinner, the party being small and the room still, these motes from the mass of a magistrate's mind fell too noticeably. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It was concluded then, and so ascertained, that the torulae in the plant proceeded from the torulae in the atmosphere, from gay motes that people the sunbeams. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
Checked by Gregory