mote : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: mote	by the DICT Development Group
8 results for mote
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
mote n (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything [syn: atom, molecule, particle, corpuscle, mote, speck]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mote \Mote\, v. See 1st {Mot}. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. 2. A body of persons who meet for discussion, esp. about the management of affairs; as, a folkmote. 3. A place of meeting for discussion. {Mote bell}, the bell rung to summon to a mote. [Obs.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mot \Mot\ (m[omac]t), v. [Sing. pres. ind. {Mot}, {Mote}, {Moot} (m[omac]t), pl. {Mot}, {Mote}, {Moote}, pres. subj. {Mote}; imp. {Moste}.] [See {Must}, v.] [Obs.] May; must; might. He moot as well say one word as another --Chaucer. The wordes mote be cousin to the deed. --Chaucer. Men moot [i.e., one only] give silver to the poore freres. --Chaucer. {So mote it be}, so be it; amen; -- a phrase in some rituals, as that of the Freemasons.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mote \Mote\, n. The flourish sounded on a horn by a huntsman. See {Mot}, n., 3, and {Mort}. --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mote \Mote\, n. [OE. mot, AS. mot.] A small particle, as of floating dust; anything proverbially small; a speck. The little motes in the sun do ever stir, though there be no wind. --Bacon. We are motes in the midst of generations. --Landor.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Moot \Moot\, n. [AS. m[d3]t, gem[d3]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. 2. [From {Moot}, v.] A discussion or debate; especially, a discussion of fictitious causes by way of practice. The pleading used in courts and chancery called moots. --Sir T. Elyot. {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.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
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).