A. S. mot, Isl. mote, conventus hominum, applied to a little hill, because anciently conventions were held on eminences. Hence our Mote-hill of Scone.
2. Sometimes improperly used for a high hill.
Bellenden.
3. A rising ground, a knoll, S. B.
Ross.
To MOTE, v. a.
1. To pick motes out of any thing, S.
2. To mote one's self, to louse, S.
3. To use means for discovering imperfections, S.
Douglas.
MOTH, adj. Warm, sultry, Loth.
MOTHER, s. The mother on beer, &c., the lees working up, S.
Germ. moder, id.
MOTHER-NAKED.
V. [Modyr-nakyd].
MOTHER-WIT, s. Common sense, discretion, S.
Ferguson.
MOTTIE, adj. Full of motes.
Ross.