Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter M - Page 75

Most (a.) Highest in rank; greatest.

Most (a.) In the greatest or highest degree.

Mostahiba (n.) See Mustaiba.

Moste () imp. of Mote.

Mostic (n.) Alt. of Mostick

Mostick (n.) A painter's maul-stick.

Mostly (adv.) For the greatest part; for the most part; chiefly; in the main.

Mostra (n.) See Direct, n.

Mostwhat (adv.) For the most part.

Mot (Sing. pres. ind.) of Mot

Mote () of Mot

Moot () of Mot

Mot (pl.) of Mot

Mote () of Mot

Moote () of Mot

Mote (pres. subj.) of Mot

Moste (imp.) of Mot

Mot (v.) May; must; might.

Mot (n.) A word; hence, a motto; a device.

Mot (n.) A pithy or witty saying; a witticism.

Mot (n.) A note or brief strain on a bugle.

Motacil (n.) Any singing bird of the genus Motacilla; a wagtail.

Motation (n.) The act of moving; motion.

Mote (v.) See 1st Mot.

Mote (n.) A meeting of persons for discussion; as, a wardmote in the city of London.

Mote (n.) A body of persons who meet for discussion, esp. about the management of affairs; as, a folkmote.

Mote (n.) A place of meeting for discussion.

Mote (n.) The flourish sounded on a horn by a huntsman. See Mot, n., 3, and Mort.

Mote (n.) A small particle, as of floating dust; anything proverbially small; a speck.

Moted (a.) Filled with motes, or fine floating dust; as, the air.

Motet (n.) A composition adapted to sacred words in the elaborate polyphonic church style; an anthem.

Moth (n.) A mote.

Moths (pl. ) of Moth

Moth (n.) Any nocturnal lepidopterous insect, or any not included among the butterflies; as, the luna moth; Io moth; hawk moth.

Moth (n.) Any lepidopterous insect that feeds upon garments, grain, etc.; as, the clothes moth; grain moth; bee moth. See these terms under Clothes, Grain, etc.

Moth (n.) Any one of various other insects that destroy woolen and fur goods, etc., esp. the larvae of several species of beetles of the genera Dermestes and Anthrenus. Carpet moths are often the larvae of Anthrenus. See Carpet beetle, under Carpet, Dermestes, Anthrenus.

Moth (n.) Anything which gradually and silently eats, consumes, or wastes any other thing.

Moth-eat (v. t.) To eat or prey upon, as a moth eats a garment.

Mothen (a.) Full of moths.

Mother (n.) A female parent; especially, one of the human race; a woman who has borne a child.

Mother (n.) That which has produced or nurtured anything; source of birth or origin; generatrix.

Mother (n.) An old woman or matron.

Mother (n.) The female superior or head of a religious house, as an abbess, etc.

Mother (n.) Hysterical passion; hysteria.

Mother (a.) Received by birth or from ancestors; native, natural; as, mother language; also acting the part, or having the place of a mother; producing others; originating.

Mothered (imp. & p. p.) of Mother

Mothering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mother

Mother (v. t.) To adopt as a son or daughter; to perform the duties of a mother to.

Mother (n.) A film or membrane which is developed on the surface of fermented alcoholic liquids, such as vinegar, wine, etc., and acts as a means of conveying the oxygen of the air to the alcohol and other combustible principles of the liquid, thus leading to their oxidation.

Mother (v. i.) To become like, or full of, mother, or thick matter, as vinegar.

Mothered (a.) Thick, like mother; viscid.

Motherhood (n.) The state of being a mother; the character or office of a mother.

Mothering (n.) A rural custom in England, of visiting one's parents on Midlent Sunday, -- supposed to have been originally visiting the mother church to make offerings at the high altar.

Mother-in-law (n.) The mother of one's husband or wife.

Motherland (n.) The country of one's ancestors; -- same as fatherland.

Motherless (a.) Destitute of a mother; having lost a mother; as, motherless children.

Motherliness (n.) The state or quality of being motherly.

Motherly (a.) Of or pertaining to a mother; like, or suitable for, a mother; tender; maternal; as, motherly authority, love, or care.

Motherly (adv.) In a manner of a mother.

Mother-naked (a.) Naked as when born.

Mother-of-pearl (n.) The hard pearly internal layer of several kinds of shells, esp. of pearl oysters, river mussels, and the abalone shells; nacre. See Pearl.

Mother-of-thyme (n.) An aromatic plant (Thymus Serphyllum); -- called also wild thyme.

Motherwort (n.) A labiate herb (Leonurus Cardiaca), of a bitter taste, used popularly in medicine; lion's tail.

Motherwort (n.) The mugwort. See Mugwort.

Mothery (a.) Consisting of, containing, or resembling, mother (in vinegar).

Mothy (a.) Infested with moths; moth-eaten.

Motif (n.) Motive.

Motific (a.) Producing motion.

Motile (a.) Having powers of self-motion, though unconscious; as, the motile spores of certain seaweeds.

Motile (a.) Producing motion; as, motile powers.

Motility (n.) Capability of motion; contractility.

Motion (n.) The act, process, or state of changing place or position; movement; the passing of a body from one place or position to another, whether voluntary or involuntary; -- opposed to rest.

Motion (n.) Power of, or capacity for, motion.

Motion (n.) Direction of movement; course; tendency; as, the motion of the planets is from west to east.

Motion (n.) Change in the relative position of the parts of anything; action of a machine with respect to the relative movement of its parts.

Motion (n.) Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.

Motion (n.) A proposal or suggestion looking to action or progress; esp., a formal proposal made in a deliberative assembly; as, a motion to adjourn.

Motion (n.) An application made to a court or judge orally in open court. Its object is to obtain an order or rule directing some act to be done in favor of the applicant.

Motion (n.) Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts.

Motion (n.) A puppet show or puppet.

Motioned (imp. & p. p.) of Motion

Motioning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Motion

Motion (v. i.) To make a significant movement or gesture, as with the hand; as, to motion to one to take a seat.

Motion (v. i.) To make proposal; to offer plans.

Motion (v. t.) To direct or invite by a motion, as of the hand or head; as, to motion one to a seat.

Motion (v. t.) To propose; to move.

Motioner (n.) One who makes a motion; a mover.

Motionist (n.) A mover.

Motionless (a.) Without motion; being at rest.

Motive (n.) That which moves; a mover.

Motive (n.) That which incites to action; anything prompting or exciting to choise, or moving the will; cause; reason; inducement; object.

Motive (n.) The theme or subject; a leading phrase or passage which is reproduced and varied through the course of a comor a movement; a short figure, or melodic germ, out of which a whole movement is develpoed. See also Leading motive, under Leading.

Motive (n.) That which produces conception, invention, or creation in the mind of the artist in undertaking his subject; the guiding or controlling idea manifested in a work of art, or any part of one.

Motive (a.) Causing motion; having power to move, or tending to move; as, a motive argument; motive power.

Motive (v. t.) To prompt or incite by a motive or motives; to move.

Motiveless (a.) Destitute of a motive; not incited by a motive.

Motivity (n.) The power of moving or producing motion.

Motivity (n.) The quality of being influenced by motives.

Motivo (n.) See Motive, n., 3, 4.

Motley (a.) Variegated in color; consisting of different colors; dappled; party-colored; as, a motley coat.

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