Motley (a.) Wearing motley or party-colored clothing. See Motley, n., 1.
Motley (n.) Composed of different or various parts; heterogeneously made or mixed up; discordantly composite; as, motley style.
Motley (n.) A combination of distinct colors; esp., the party-colored cloth, or clothing, worn by the professional fool.
Motley (n.) Hence, a jester, a fool.
Motley-minded (a.) Having a mind of a jester; foolish.
Motmot (n.) Any one of several species of long-tailed, passerine birds of the genus Momotus, having a strong serrated beak. In most of the species the two long middle tail feathers are racket-shaped at the tip, when mature. The bird itself is said by some writers to trim them into this shape. They feed on insects, reptiles, and fruit, and are found from Mexico to Brazil. The name is derived from its note.
Moto (n.) Movement; manner of movement; particularly, movement with increased rapidity; -- used especially in the phrase con moto, directing to a somewhat quicker movement; as, andante con moto, a little more rapidly than andante, etc.
Moton (n.) A small plate covering the armpit in armor of the 14th century and later.
Motor (n.) One who, or that which, imparts motion; a source of mechanical power.
Motor (n.) A prime mover; a machine by means of which a source of power, as steam, moving water, electricity, etc., is made available for doing mechanical work.
Motor (n.) Alt. of Motorial
Motory (n.) Alt. of Motorial
Motorial (n.) Causing or setting up motion; pertaining to organs of motion; -- applied especially in physiology to those nerves or nerve fibers which only convey impressions from a nerve center to muscles, thereby causing motion.
Motorman (n.) A man who controls a motor.
Motorpathic (a.) Of or pertaining to motorpathy.
Motorpathy (n.) Kinesiatrics.
Motte (n.) A clump of trees in a prairie.
Mottled (imp. & p. p.) of Mottle
Mottling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mottle
Mottle (v. t.) To mark with spots of different color, or shades of color, as if stained; to spot; to maculate.
Mottle (n.) A mottled appearance.
Mottled (a.) Marked with spots of different colors; variegated; spotted; as, mottled wood.
Mottoes (pl. ) of Motto
Motto (n.) A sentence, phrase, or word, forming part of an heraldic achievment.
Motto (n.) A sentence, phrase, or word, prefixed to an essay, discourse, chapter, canto, or the like, suggestive of its subject matter; a short, suggestive expression of a guiding principle; a maxim.
Mottoed (a.) Bearing or having a motto; as, a mottoed coat or device.
Motty (a.) Full of, or consisting of, motes.
Mouchoir (n.) A handkerchief.
Mouazzin (n.) See Muezzin.
Mouflon (n.) A wild sheep (Ovis musimon), inhabiting the mountains of Sardinia, Corsica, etc. Its horns are very large, with a triangular base and rounded angles. It is supposed by some to be the original of the domestic sheep. Called also musimon or musmon.
Mought (imp.) Might.
Mouillation (n.) The act of uttering the sound of a mouille letter.
Mouille (a.) Applied to certain consonants having a "liquid" or softened sound; e.g., in French, l or ll and gn (like the lli in million and ni in minion); in Italian, gl and gn; in Spanish, ll and ö; in Portuguese, lh and nh.
Mould () Alt. of Mouldy
Moulder () Alt. of Mouldy
Mouldy () See Mold, Molder, Moldy, etc.
Moule (v. i.) To contract mold; to grow moldy; to mold.
Mouline (n.) Alt. of Moulinet
Moulinet (n.) The drum upon which the rope is wound in a capstan, crane, or the like.
Moulinet (n.) A machine formerly used for bending a crossbow by winding it up.
Moulinet (n.) In sword and saber exercises, a circular swing of the weapon.
Moult (v. & n.) See Molt.
Moulten (a.) Having molted.
Moun (v.) pl. of Mow, may.
Mounch (v. t.) To munch.
Mound (n.) A ball or globe forming part of the regalia of an emperor or other sovereign. It is encircled with bands, enriched with precious stones, and surmounted with a cross; -- called also globe.
Mound (n.) An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embarkment thrown up for defense; a bulwark; a rampart; also, a natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll.
Mounded (imp. & p. p.) of Mound
Mounding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mound
Mound (v. t.) To fortify or inclose with a mound.
Mount (v.) A mass of earth, or earth and rock, rising considerably above the common surface of the surrounding land; a mountain; a high hill; -- used always instead of mountain, when put before a proper name; as, Mount Washington; otherwise, chiefly in poetry.
Mount (v.) A bulwark for offense or defense; a mound.
Mount (v.) A bank; a fund.
Mounted (imp. & p. p.) of Mount
Mounting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mount
Mount (n.) To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; -- often with up.
Mount (n.) To get up on anything, as a platform or scaffold; especially, to seat one's self on a horse for riding.
Mount (n.) To attain in value; to amount.
Mount (v. t.) To get upon; to ascend; to climb.
Mount (v. t.) To place one's self on, as a horse or other animal, or anything that one sits upon; to bestride.
Mount (v. t.) To cause to mount; to put on horseback; to furnish with animals for riding; to furnish with horses.
Mount (v. t.) Hence: To put upon anything that sustains and fits for use, as a gun on a carriage, a map or picture on cloth or paper; to prepare for being worn or otherwise used, as a diamond by setting, or a sword blade by adding the hilt, scabbard, etc.
Mount (v. t.) To raise aloft; to lift on high.
Mount (v.) That upon which a person or thing is mounted
Mount (v.) A horse.
Mount (v.) The cardboard or cloth on which a drawing, photograph, or the like is mounted; a mounting.
Mountable (a.) Such as can be mounted.
Mountain (n.) A large mass of earth and rock, rising above the common level of the earth or adjacent land; earth and rock forming an isolated peak or a ridge; an eminence higher than a hill; a mount.
Mountain (n.) A range, chain, or group of such elevations; as, the White Mountains.
Mountain (n.) A mountainlike mass; something of great bulk.
Mountain (a.) Of or pertaining to a mountain or mountains; growing or living on a mountain; found on or peculiar to mountains; among mountains; as, a mountain torrent; mountain pines; mountain goats; mountain air; mountain howitzer.
Mountain (a.) Like a mountain; mountainous; vast; very great.
Mountaineer (n.) An inhabitant of a mountain; one who lives among mountains.
Mountaineer (n.) A rude, fierce person.
Mountaineer (v. i.) To lie or act as a mountaineer; to climb mountains.
Mountainer (n.) A mountaineer.
Mountainet (n.) A small mountain.
Mountainous (a.) Full of, or containing, mountains; as, the mountainous country of the Swiss.
Mountainous (a.) Inhabiting mountains.
Mountainous (a.) Large as, or resembling, a mountain; huge; of great bulk; as, a mountainous heap.
Mountainousness (n.) The state or quality of being mountainous.
Mountance (n.) Amount; sum; quantity; extent.
Mountant (a.) Raised; high.
Mountebank (n.) One who mounts a bench or stage in the market or other public place, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, and vends medicines which he pretends are infalliable remedies; a quack doctor.
Mountebank (n.) Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack.
Mountebank (v. t.) To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull.
Mountebank (v. i.) To play the mountebank.
Mountebankery (n.) The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.
Mountebankish (a.) Like a mountebank or his quackery.
Mountebankism (n.) The practices of a mountebank; mountebankery.
Mounted (a.) Seated or serving on horseback or similarly; as, mounted police; mounted infantry.
Mounted (a.) Placed on a suitable support, or fixed in a setting; as, a mounted gun; a mounted map; a mounted gem.
Mountenaunce (n.) Mountance.
Mounter (n.) One who mounts.
Mounter (n.) An animal mounted; a monture.
Mounting (n.) The act of one that mounts.
Mounting (n.) That by which anything is prepared for use, or set off to advantage; equipment; embellishment; setting; as, the mounting of a sword or diamond.
Mountingly (adv.) In an ascending manner.
Mountlet (n.) A small or low mountain.
Mounty (v.) The rise of a hawk after prey.