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One whose motive is to please men or the world, rather than God. Eph. vi. 6.

To be sunk, swallowed up, or lost. Native irresolution had merged in stronger motives. I. Taylor.

An instrument attached to a locomotive for recording its speed and the number and duration of its stops.

A measure of electro-motive force; the millionth part of one volt.

t; -- usually unfavorable to the thing represented; as, a misrepresentation of a person's motives. Sydney Smith.

A heavy locomotive for freight traffic, having three pairs of connected driving wheels and a two-wheeled truck. Great, or Grand, Mogul, the sovereign of the empire founded in Hindostan by the Mongols under Baber in the sixteenth century. Hence, a very important personage; a lord; -- sometimes only mogul. Dryden.…

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

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.

Motive.

To provide with a motive; to move; impel; induce; incite. -- Mo`ti*va"tion (#), n. William James.

The quality of being influenced by motives. [R.]

See Motive, n., 3, 4.

An automobile, locomobile, or locomotive designed to run and be steered on a street or roadway; esp., an automobile specially designed for passengers.

To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion, or appeal; to influence. Minds desirous of revenge were not moved with gold. Knolles. No female arts his mind could move. Dryden.

producing, or any system conveying or utilizing, two or more waves of pressure, or electromotive force, not in phase with each other; polyphase.

To increase in number; to make more numerous; to add quantity to. Impunity will multiply motives to disobedience. Ames.

A crustacean larva having three pairs of locomotive organs (corresponding to the antennules, antennæ, and mandibles), a median eye, and little or no segmentation of the body.

esp. that the will is not free, but that human actions and choices result inevitably from motives; deteminism. M. Arnold.

), a heart or character changed by the power of God, so as to be governed by new and holy motives. -- New land, land ckeared and cultivated for the first time. -- New light. (Zoöl.) See Crappie. -- New moon. (a) The moon in its first quarter, or when it first appears after being invisible. (b) The day when the new m…