Mot (m&obreve;t; m&osl;, def. 2), n.
[F. See Motto.]
1. A word; hence,
a motto; a device. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
Tarquin's eye may read the mot afar.
Shak. 2. A pithy or witty saying; a witticism. [A Gallicism]
Here and there turns up a
. . . savage mot.
N. Brit. Rev. 3. A note or brief strain on a bugle. Sir W. Scott.
Mot (mōt),
v. [Sing. pres. ind. Mot, Mote, Moot (mōt), 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.
Hear it pronounced