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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Moot \Moot\, noun [AS. m[=o]t, gem[=o]t, a meeting; -- usually in comp.] [Written also {mote}.]
1. A meeting for discussion and deliberation; esp., a meeting of the people of a village or district, in Anglo-Saxon times, for the discussion and settlement of matters of common interest; -- usually in composition; as, folk-moot. --J. R. Green.
2. [From {Moot}, v.] A discussion or debate; especially, a discussion of fictitious causes by way of practice.
The pleading used in courts and chancery called moots. --Sir T. Elyot.
{Moot case}, a case or question to be mooted; a disputable case; an unsettled question. --Dryden.
{Moot court}, a mock court, such as is held by students of law for practicing the conduct of law cases.
{Moot point}, a point or question to be debated; a doubtful question.
{to make moot} verb (used with an object) to render moot[2]; to moot[3]. [1913 Webster +PJC]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mote \Mote\, v. See 1st {Mot}. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mote \Mote\, noun [See {Moot}, a meeting.] [Obs., except in a few combinations or phrases.]
1. A meeting of persons for discussion; as, a wardmote in the city of London.
2. A body of persons who meet for discussion, esp. about the management of affairs; as, a folkmote.
3. A place of meeting for discussion.
{Mote bell}, the bell rung to summon to a mote. [Obs.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mot \Mot\ (m[=o]t), v. [Sing. pres. ind. {Mot}, {Mote}, {Moot} (m[=o]t), pl. {Mot}, {Mote}, {Moote}, pres. subj. {Mote}; imp. {Moste}.] [See {Must}, v.] [Obs.] 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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mote \Mote\, noun The flourish sounded on a horn by a huntsman. See {Mot}, noun, 3, and {Mort}. --Chaucer.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mote \Mote\, noun [OE. mot, AS. mot.] A small particle, as of floating dust; anything proverbially small; a speck.
The little motes in the sun do ever stir, though there be no wind. --Bacon.
We are motes in the midst of generations. --Landor.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
mote
noun: (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything [syn: {atom}, {molecule}, {particle}, {corpuscle}, {speck}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
128 Moby Thesaurus words for "mote": ace, acropolis, air, atom, bastion, beachhead, bit, black sheep, blemish, blockhouse, bridgehead, bubble, bunker, castle, chaff, chip, citadel, cobweb, cork, crumb, dab, dole, donjon, dot, down, dram, dribble, driblet, drop, droplet, dust, dwarf, ether, fairy, farthing, fasthold, fastness, feather, fleck, flue, fluff, flyspeck, foam, foreign body, foreign intruder, fort, fortress, fragment, froth, fuzz, garrison, garrison house, gnat, gobbet, gossamer, grain, granule, groat, hair, handful, hold, impurity, intruder, iota, jot, keep, little, little bit, martello, martello tower, microbe, microorganism, midge, minim, minimum, minutia, minutiae, misfit, mite, modicum, molecule, monkey wrench, motte, nutshell, oddball, ounce, particle, pebble, peel, peel tower, pillbox, pinch, pinhead, pinpoint, pittance, point, post, rath, safehold, scrap, scruple, sliver, smidgen, smitch, snip, snippet, speck, splinter, sponge, spoonful, spot, spume, stone, straw, strong point, stronghold, thimbleful, thistledown, tiny bit, tittle, tower, tower of strength, trifling amount, trivia, vanishing point, ward, weed, whit
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Mote (Gr. karphos, something dry, hence a particle of wood or chaff, etc.). A slight moral defect is likened to a mote (Matt. 7:3-5; Luke 6:41, 42).
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