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A hill of meeting or council; an elevated place in the open air where public assemblies or courts were held by the Saxons; -- called, in Scotland, mute-hill. J. R. Green.

Capable of being mooted.

A disputer of a mooted case.

One who argued moot cases in the inns of court.

A made-up face; a grimace. "What mops and mowes it makes!" Beau. & Fl.

A narrow board nailed against the wall of a room next to the floor; skirting board; baseboard. See Baseboard.

To be dull and spiritless. "Moping melancholy." Milton. A sickly part of one true sense Could not so mope. Shak.

Shortsighted; purblind.

Mopish. [R.]

Dull; spiritless; dejected. -- Mop"ish*ly, adv. -- Mop"ish*ness, n.

One of a class of Mohammedans in Malabar.

A rag baby; a puppet made of cloth; hence, also, in fondness, a little girl, or a woman.

A moppet.

Shortsighted; mope-eyed.

The long handle of a mop.

A mope; a drone. [Obs.] Swift.

A kind of carpet having a short velvety pile.

A game of guessing the number of fingers extended in a quick movement of the hand, -- much played by Italians of the lower classes.

An accumulation of earth and stones carried forward and deposited by a glacier. Lyell.

Of or pertaining to a moranie.