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A minute portion of time; a point of time; an instant; as, at thet very moment. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. 1 Cor. xv. 52.

Lasting but a moment; brief. Not one momental minute doth she swerve. Breton.

For a moment. [Obs.]

Momentary. [Obs.] Hooker. "Momentany as a sound." Shak.

Every moment; from moment to moment. Shenstone.

The state or quality of being momentary; shortness of duration.

Done in a moment; continuing only a moment; lasting a very short time; as, a momentary pang. This momentary joy breeds months of pain. Shak.

For a moment.

Of moment or consequence; very important; weighty; as, a momentous decision; momentous affairs. -- Mo*men"tous*ly, adv. -- Mo*men"tous*ness, n.

Essential element, or constituent element. I shall state the several momenta of the distinction in separate propositions. Sir W. Hamilton.

Having equal moments of inertia.

Trifling. [R.] "Immoment toys." Shak.

Not momentous; unimportant; insignificant. [R.] A. Seward.

ighest point; the culmination. The very acme and pitch of life for epic poetry. Pope. The moment when a certain power reaches the acme of its supremacy. I. Taylor.

commencing of one or more tones of a chord with or during the chord preceding, forming a momentary discord.

Determination; decision; arbitration. The arbitrament of time. Everett. Gladly at this moment would MacIvor have put their quarrel to personal arbitrament. Sir W. Scott.

e of wheat or grass; a stubble field; eddish. [Eng.] [Written also arish, ersh, etc.] The moment we entered the stubble or arrish. Blackw. Mag.

Precise point of time; moment. [Obs. or Archaic] This fatal news coming to Hick's Hall upon the article of my Lord Russell's trial, was said to have had no little influence on the jury and all the bench to his prejudice. Evelyn.

The horoscope, or that degree of the ecliptic which rises above the horizon at the moment of one's birth; supposed to have a commanding influence on a person's life and fortune.

ore and after a total eclipse, the slender, unobscured crescent of the sun's disk appears momentarily like a row of bright spots resembling a string of beads. The phenomenon (first fully described by Francis Baily, 1774 -- 1844) is thought to be an effect of irradiation, and of inequalities of the moon's edge.…