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reatest number or quantity; greater in number or quantity than all the rest; nearly all. "Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness." Prov. xx. 6. The cities wherein most of his mighty works were done. Matt. xi. 20.

See Mustaiba.

of Mote. Chaucer.

A painter's maul-stick.

For the greatest part; for the most part; chiefly; in the main.

See Direct, n.

For the most part. [Obs.] "All the rest do mostwhat far amiss." Spenser.

May; must; might. He moot as well say one word as another Chaucer. The wordes mote be cousin to the deed. Chaucer. Men moot [i.e., one only] give silver to the poore freres. Chaucer. So mote it be, so be it; amen; -- a phrase in some rituals, as that of the Freemasons.

Any singing bird of the genus Motacilla; a wagtail.

The act of moving; motion. [Obs.]

See 1st Mot. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Filled with motes, or fine floating dust; as, the air. "Moted sunbeams." Tennyson.

A composition adapted to sacred words in the elaborate polyphonic church style; an anthem.

A mote. [Obs.] Shak.

To eat or prey upon, as a moth eats a garment. [Rarely used except in the form moth-eaten, p.p. or a.] Ruin and neglect have so moth-eaten her. Sir T. Herbert.

Full of moths. [Obs.] Fulke.

; source of birth or origin; generatrix. Alas! poor country! ... it can not Be called our mother, but our grave. Shak. I behold ... the solitary majesty of Crete, mother of a religion, it is said, that lived two thousand years. Landor.

A day appointed for the honor and uplift of motherhood by the loving remembrance of each person of his mother through the performance of some act of kindness, visit, tribute, or letter. The founder of the day is Anna Jarvis, of Philadelphia, who designated the second Sunday in May, or for schools the second Friday, as…

The mother of one's husband or wife.

Naked as when born.