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noun
Mot  n.  
1.
A word; hence, a motto; a device. (Obs.) "Tarquin's eye may read the mot afar."
2.
A pithy or witty saying; a witticism. (A Gallicism) "Here and there turns up a... savage mot."
3.
A note or brief strain on a bugle.


verb
Mot  v.  (sing. pres. ind. mot, mote, moot, pl. mot, mote, moote; pres. subj. mote; past moste)  (Obs.) May; must; might. "He moot as well say one word as another" "The wordes mote be cousin to the deed." "Men moot (i.e., one only) give silver to the poore freres."
So mote it be, so be it; amen; a phrase in some rituals, as that of the Freemasons.





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... fashion, but the last eleven leaves are left blank reducing the number written to 742; and the terminal note, containing the date, is on the last leaf. Each page numbers IS lines and each leaf has its catchword (mot de rappel). It is not ordered by "karras" or quires; but is written upon 48 sets of 4 double leaves. The text is in a fair Syrian hand, but not so flowing as that of No. 1716, by Shawish himself, which the well-known Arabist, Baron de Slane, described ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 6 • Richard F. Burton
... a nook apart, Discuss'd the world, and settled all the spheres; The wits watch'd every loophole for their art, To introduce a bon-mot head and ears; Small is the rest of those who would be smart, A moment's good thing may have cost them years Before they find an hour to introduce it; And then, even then, some bore may make them ...
— Don Juan • Lord Byron
... is to rakel to renden his cloe[gh], Mot efte sitte with more vn-sounde to sewe hem togeder. For he that is too rash to rend his clothes, Must afterwards sit with more unsound (worse ones) to sew ...
— Early English Alliterative Poems - in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century • Various
... most commonplace way. But the epigrammatic compliment, the well-prepared impromptu, the careful rehearsed inspiration, is out of date. Now-a-days there are no wits, and no appreciation of The Wits. Conversation is damped by a bon-mot. An awful silence follows the most brilliant jeu de mot, as sombre as the darkness after a forked flash, or as the gardens at the Crystal Palace after the ...
— Happy-Thought Hall • F. C. Burnand
... mwoi mui muoi moin, mot mnay moi moe ming 2 bar ba bar bar bar hai bar pra pra 3 pei pi pe pei peng ba peh pe pe 4 puon pan puon puon puon bon pon pon pon 5 sung m'sun sung pram (po)dam nam pram pram pram 6 thpat t'rou trou prou (to)trou sau ...
— The Khasis • P. R. T. Gurdon


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