Mote
[məʊt]
Definition
(-) of Mot
(-) of Mot
(pres. subj.) of Mot
(v.) See 1st Mot.
(n.) A meeting of persons for discussion; as, a wardmote in the city of London.
(n.) A body of persons who meet for discussion, esp. about the management of affairs; as, a folkmote.
(n.) A place of meeting for discussion.
(n.) The flourish sounded on a horn by a huntsman. See Mot, n., 3, and Mort.
(n.) A small particle, as of floating dust; anything proverbially small; a speck.
Typist: Murray
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Spot, speck, mite, particle, atom, corpuscle.
Typist: Weldon
Definition
n. a particle of dust: a speck: a stain or blemish: anything very small.—adjs. Mōt′ed Mot′ty containing motes.
n. an archaism for might or must.
Checker: Lola
Examples
- The depths of the stars and the minutest mote that floats in the sun beam reflect the glory of those inventions. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- 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.
Checker: Wade