Mote

(-) 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.

编辑:默里

• The depths of the stars and the minutest mote that floats in the sun beam reflect the glory of those inventions. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• 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. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• 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. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.

编辑:韦德