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Webster 1913 Edition
Mot
Mot
(mōt)
, Verb.
[
Sing. pres. ind.
Mot
, Mote
, Moot
(mōt)
, pl.
Mot
, Mote
, Moote
, pres. subj.
Mote
; imp.
Moste
.] [See ]
Must
, Verb.
[Obs.]
May; must; might.
He
moot
as well say one word as another Chaucer.
The wordes
mote
be cousin to the deed. Chaucer.
Men
moot
[i.e., one only] give silver to the poore freres. Chaucer.
So mote it be
, so be it; amen; – a phrase in some rituals, as that of the Freemasons.
1.
A word; hence, a motto; a device.
[Obs.]
Bp. Hall.
Tarquin’s eye may read the
mot
afar. Shakespeare
2.
A pithy or witty saying; a witticism.
[A Gallicism]
Here and there turns up a . . . savage
mot
. N. Brit. Rev.
3.
A note or brief strain on a bugle.
Sir W. Scott.