Search the Dictionary

Bearing or having a motto; as, a mottoed coat or device.

Full of, or consisting of, motes. [Written also mottie.] [Scot.] The motty dust reek raised by the workmen. H. Miller.

Removal; ousting; especially, the removal of a corporate officer from his office.

Elevated, -- as a toe, when raised so high that the tip does not touch the ground.

Of or pertaining to anastomosis.

A small moth (Gelechia cerealella) which is very destructive to wheat and other grain. The larva eats out the inferior of the grain, leaving only the shell.

Preventing fermentation or decomposition. -- n.

A court held in Derbyshire, in England, for deciding controversies between miners. Blount.

An animal, probably the hippopotamus, described in Job xl. 15- 24.

A variety of snuff perfumed with bergamot. The better hand . . . gives the nose its bergamot. Cowper .

See Barmote.

A witty repartee; a jest.

See Bergamot.

A court or meeting of a burgh or borough; a borough court held three times yearly.

Bespotted with mud or dirt. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A voltaic battery, having a large surface of plate, and producing powerful heating effects.

The matter of which the philosopher's stone was believed to be composed.

Pertaining to, or produced by, chemosmosis. [R.]

f algæ, etc., to chemical substances held in solution. They may be attracted (positive chemotaxis) or repelled (negative chemotaxis). -- Chem`o*tac"tic (#), a. -- Chem`o*tac"tic*al*ly, adv.

A sheet printed in colors by any process, as a chromolithograph. See Chromolithograph.