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The quantity of motion in a moving body, being always proportioned to the quantity of matter multiplied into the velocity; impetus.

See Motmot.

who accumulates money or wealth; specifically, one who makes money-getting his governing motive.

ndividual instruction, the very early development of writing, and an extended sensory and motor training (with special emphasis on vision, touch, perception of movement, and their interconnections), mediated by a patented, standardized system of "didactic apparatus," which is declared to be "auto-regulative." Most of t…

Mother. [Obs.] Chaucer.

See 1st Mot. [Obs.] Chaucer.

ures; -- sometimes used in contradistinction to one whose life is controlled by religious motives. The love (in the moralist of virtue, but in the Christian) of God himself. Hammond.

To practice penance from religious motives; to deaden desires by religious discipline. This makes him ... give alms of all that he hath, watch, fast, and mortify. Law.

of Mote. Chaucer.

party. Egmont was imprudent enough to make himself the mouthpiece of their remonstrance. Motley.

drawn, turned, or conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture; susceptible of motion; not fixed or stationary; as, a movable steam engine.

The quality or state of being movable; mobility; susceptibility of motion.

To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as, the wind moves a vessel; the horse moves a carriage.

Motionless; fixed. "Moveless as a tower." Pope.

osture; transference, by any means, from one situation to another; natural or appropriate motion; progress; advancement; as, the movement of an army in marching or maneuvering; the movement of a wheel or a machine; the party of movement.

A person or thing that imparts motion, or causes change of place; a motor.

Changing place or posture; causing motion or action; as, a moving car, or power.

romatic composite weed (Artemisia vulgaris), at one time used medicinally; -- called also motherwort.

its long ears. -- Mule pulley (Mach.), an idle pulley for guiding a belt which transmits motion between shafts that are not parallel. -- Mule twist, cotton yarn in cops, as spun on a mule; -- in distinction from yarn spun on a throstle frame.

rs in dense spikes. The common species, with densely woolly leaves, is Verbascum Thapsus. Moth mullein. See under Moth. -- Mullein foxglove, an American herb (Seymeria macrophylla) with coarse leaves and yellow tubular flowers with a spreading border. -- Petty mullein, the cowslip. Dr. Prior.