Mote - MOTE, in folkmote, &c. signifies a meeting.
MOTE, n. A small particle; any thing proverbially small; a spot.
Why beholdest thou the mote in thy brother's eye? Mat 7.
The little motes in the sun do ever stir, though there is no wind.
MOTE, for mought, might or must, obsolete.
Moth - MOTH, n.
1. An animal of the genus Phalaena, which breeds in yard and garments, and often does injury by eating the substance and destroying the texture. Mat 6.
The name is also applied to the whole genus.
2. Figuratively, that which gradually and silently eats, consumes or wastes any thing. Idle persons are a moth to the community.
Mourn - MOURN, v.i. [L. maereo.]
1. To express grief or sorrow; to grieve; to be sorrowful. Mourning may be expressed by weeping or audible sounds, or by sobs, sighs or inward silent grief.
Abraham came to mourn for Sarah and to weep. Gen 23.
Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted. Mat 5.
2. To wear the customary habit of sorrow.
We mourn in black.
Grieve for an hour perhaps, then mourn a year.
MOURN, v.t. To grieve for; to lament. But there is an ellipsis of for, the verb not being transitive. When we say, we mourn a friend or a child, the real sense and complete phrase is, we mourn for a friend, or mourn for the loss of a friend. "He mourn'd his rival's ill success," that is,he mourned for his rival's ill success.
1. To utter in a sorrowful manner.
The love lorn nightingale
Nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well.
Mouth - MOUTH, n.
1. The aperture in the head of an animal, between the lips, by which he utters his voice and receives food. In a more general sense, the mouth consists of the lips, the gums, the insides of the cheeks, the palate, the salival glands, the uvula and tonsils.
2. The opening of a vessel by which it is filled or emptied; as the mouth of a jar or pitcher.
3. The part or channel of a river by which its waters are discharged into the ocean or into a lake. The Mississippi and the Nile discharge their waters by several mouths.
4. The opening of a piece of ordnance at the end, by which the charge issues.
5. The aperture of a vessel in animal bodies, by which fluids or other matter is received or discharged; as the mouth of the lacteals.
6. The opening or entrance of a cave, pit, well or den. Dan 8.
7. The instrument of speaking; as, the story is in every body's mouth.
8. A principal speaker; one that utters the common opinion.
Every coffee house has some statesman belonging to it, who is the mouth of the street where he lives.
9. Cry; voice.
The fearful dogs divide,
All spend their mouth aloft, but none abide.
10. In Scripture, words uttered. Job 19. Isa 49. Psa 73.
11. Desires; necessities. Psa 103.
12. Freedom and boldness of speech; force of argument.
Luke 21.
13. Boasting; vaunting. Judg 9.
14. Testimony. Deu 17.
15. Reproaches; calumnies. Job 5.
To make a mouth, to distort the mouth;
To make mouths, to make a wry face; hence, to deride or treat with scorn.
1. To pout; to treat disdainfully.
Down in the mouth, dejected; mortified.
To have God's law in the mouth, to converse much on it and delight in it. Exo 13.
To draw near to God with the mouth, to make an external appearance of devotion and worship, while there is no regard to him in the heart. Isa 29.
A froward mouth, contradictions and disobedience. Prov 9.
A smooth mouth, soft and flattering language. Prov 5.
To stop the mouth, to silence or to be silent; to put to shame; to confound. Rom 3lay the hand on the mouth, to be struck silent with shame. Micah 7.
To set the mouth against the heavens, to speak arrogantly and blasphemously. Psa 73.
MOUTH, v.t. To utter with a voice affectedly big or swelling; as, to mouth words or language.
Twitch'd by the sleeve, he mouths it more and more.
1. To take into the mouth; to seize with the mouth.
2. To chew; to grind, as food; to eat; to devour.
3. To form by the mouth, as a bear her cub. [Not used.]
4. To reproach; to insult.
MOUTH, v.i. To speak with a full, round, or loud, affected voice; to vociferate; to rant; as a mouthing actor.
I'll bellow out for Rome and for my country,
And mouth at Caesar, till I shake the senate.
Move - MOVE, v.t. moov. [L. moveo.]
1. To impel; to carry, convey or draw from one place to another; to cause to change place or posture in any manner or by any means. The wind moves a ship; the cartman moves goods; the horse moves a cart or carriage. Mere matter cannot move itself. Machines are moved by springs, weights, or force applied.
2. To excite into action; to affect; to agitate; to rouse; as, to move the passions.
3. To cause to act or determine; as, to move the will.
4. To persuade; to prevail on; to excite from a state of rest or indifference.
Minds desirous of revenge were not moved with gold.
But when no female arts his mind could move,
She turn'd to furious hate her impious love.
5. To excite tenderness, pity or grief in the heart; to affect; to touch pathetically; to excite feeling in.
The use of images in orations and poetry is to move pity or terror.
When he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them--Mat 9.
6. To make angry; to provoke; to irritate.
7. To excite tumult or commotion.
When they had come to Bethlehem, all the city was moved about them. Ruth 1. Mat 21.
8. To influence or incite by secret agency.
God moved them to depart from him. 2 Chr 18. 2 Pet 1.
9. To shake; to agitate.
The kingdoms were moved. Psa 46. Jer 49.
10. To propose; to offer for consideration and determination; as, to move a resolution in a deliberative assembly.
11. To propose; to recommend.
They are to be blamed alike who move and who decline war upon particular respects.
12. To prompt; to incite; to instigate. Acts 17.
MOVE, v.i. To change place or posture; to stir; to pass or go in any manner or direction from one place or part of space to another. The planets move in their orbits; the earth moves on its axis; a ship moves at a certain rate an hour. We move by walking, running or turning; animals move by creeping, swimming or flying.
On the green bank I sat and listened long,
Nor till her lay was ended could I move.
1. To have action.
In him we live, and move, and have our being. Acts 17.
2. To have the power of action.
Every moving thing that liveth, shall be meat for you.
Gen 9.
3. To walk.
He moves with manly grace.
4. To march. The army moved and took a position behind a wood.
5. To tremble; to shake.
The foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth. Psa 18.
6. To change residence. Men move with their families from one house, town or state to another.
MOVE, n. The act of moving; the act of transferring from place to place, as in chess.