Mole
[məʊl] or [mol]
Definition
(noun.) small velvety-furred burrowing mammal having small eyes and fossorial forefeet.
(noun.) a small congenital pigmented spot on the skin.
(noun.) spicy sauce often containing chocolate.
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Definition
(n.) A spot; a stain; a mark which discolors or disfigures.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A mass of fleshy or other more or less solid matter generated in the uterus.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Any insectivore of the family Talpidae. They have minute eyes and ears, soft fur, and very large and strong fore feet.
(n.) A plow of peculiar construction, for forming underground drains.
(v. t.) To form holes in, as a mole; to burrow; to excavate; as, to mole the earth.
(v. t.) To clear of molehills.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Jetty, pier, breakwater.[2]. [Zoöl.] Mouldwarp, molewarp.
Editor: Margie
Definition
n. a breakwater: any massive building: an ancient Roman mausoleum.
n. a permanent dark-brown mark on the human skin often hairy—a pigmentary N鎣us (q.v.).
n. a small animal with very small eyes and soft fur which burrows in the ground and casts up little heaps of mould.—v.t. to burrow or form holes in.—ns. Mole′cast; Mole′-catch′er one whose business it is to catch moles; Mole′-crick′et a burrowing insect like a cricket with forelegs like those of a mole.—adj. Mole′-eyed having eyes like those of a mole: seeing imperfectly.—ns. Mole′hill a little hill or heap of earth cast up by a mole; Mole′rat a rat-like animal which burrows like a mole; Mole′skin the skin of a mole: a superior kind of fustian double-twilled cropped before dyeing; Mole′-spade a small spade used by mole-catchers; Mole′-track the track made by a mole burrowing.—Make a mountain of a molehill to magnify a trifling matter.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of moles, indicates secret enemies. To dream of catching a mole, you will overcome any opposition and rise to prominence. To see moles, or such blemishes, on the person, indicates illness and quarrels.
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Examples
- The mole should be surrounded by a little cell or ring of wax, so that the acid can be applied direct without fear of disorganizing the adjacent skin. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Yes, I am, and admiring the mole in your chin at the same time. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- A mole could trace it, and there it vanishes among the reeds. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I confess that I have been as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Paragon's little nose too was very pretty, even when red and frost-bitten; and she had a beautiful mole on her clear brown cheek. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Genoa Mole and Harbour. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Sometimes he knew her and Father Mole, her director and companion; oftener he forgot her, as he had done wife, children, love, ambition, vanity. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- You women are too proud, and sadly lack humility, as Father Mole, I'm sure, would tell my Lady Steyne if he were here. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Scipio built a mole across the harbour, and cut off all supplies by land or sea. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Had Locke those two white moles with hairs on them? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The eyes of moles and of some burrowing rodents are rudimentary in size, and in some cases are quite covered by skin and fur. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The removal of either deep-seated freckles or moles is, as before hinted, not always an easy task, but nitric acid is perhaps about as good an agent for the purpose as any other. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
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