MPage 371
- English Word Moted Definition Filled with motes, or fine floating dust; as, the air.
- English Word Motet Definition A composition adapted to sacred words in the elaborate polyphonic church style; an anthem.
- English Word Moth Definition A mote.
- English Word Moth Definition Any nocturnal lepidopterous insect, or any not included among the butterflies; as, the luna moth; Io moth; hawk moth.
- English Word Moth Definition Any lepidopterous insect that feeds upon garments, grain, etc.; as, the clothes moth; grain moth; bee moth. See these terms under Clothes, Grain, etc.
- English Word Moth Definition 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.
- English Word Moth Definition Anything which gradually and silently eats, consumes, or wastes any other thing.
- English Word Moth-eat Definition To eat or prey upon, as a moth eats a garment.
- English Word Mothen Definition Full of moths.
- English Word Mother Definition A female parent; especially, one of the human race; a woman who has borne a child.
- English Word Mother Definition That which has produced or nurtured anything; source of birth or origin; generatrix.
- English Word Mother Definition An old woman or matron.
- English Word Mother Definition The female superior or head of a religious house, as an abbess, etc.
- English Word Mother Definition Hysterical passion; hysteria.
- English Word Mother Definition 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.
- English Word Mother Definition To adopt as a son or daughter; to perform the duties of a mother to.
- English Word Mother Definition 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.
- English Word Mother Definition To become like, or full of, mother, or thick matter, as vinegar.
- English Word Mother-in-law Definition The mother of one's husband or wife.
- English Word Mother-naked Definition Naked as when born.