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Mot \Mot\ (m[o^]t; m[-o], def. 2), n. [F. See {Motto}.]
1. A word; hence, a motto; a device. [Obs.] --Bp. Hall.
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Tarquin's eye may read the mot afar. --Shak.
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2. A pithy or witty saying; a witticism. [A Gallicism]
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Here and there turns up a . . . savage mot. --N.
Brit. Rev.
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3. A note or brief strain on a bugle. --Sir W. Scott.
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Mot \Mot\ (m[=o]t), v. [Sing. pres. ind. {Mot}, {Mote}, {Moot}
(m[=o]t), pl. {Mot}, {Mote}, {Moote}, pres. subj. {Mote};
imp. {Moste}.] [See {Must}, v.] [Obs.]
May; must; might.
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He moot as well say one word as another --Chaucer.
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The wordes mote be cousin to the deed. --Chaucer.
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Men moot [i.e., one only] give silver to the poore
freres. --Chaucer.
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{So mote it be}, so be it; amen; -- a phrase in some rituals,
as that of the Freemasons.
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