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_Erskine._
2. Lands or money thus disponed, S.
_Stat. Acc._
MORTYM, MORTON, _s._ Supposed to be the common martin; _mertym_, South of S.
_Acts Ja. VI._
MORUNGEOUS, _adj._ In very bad humour; _morungeous cankert_, very ill-humoured, S. B.
MOSINE, _s._ The touchhole of a piece of ordnance; metaph. S.
_motion-hole_.
_Z. Boyd._
MOSS, _s._
1. A marshy place, S.
_Barbour._
2. A place where peats may be digged, S.
_Statist. Acc._
Su. G. _mose_, _mossa_, id., locus uliginosus.
~Moss-b.u.mmer~, _s._ The Bittern, S. A., from its _booming_ sound.
~Moss-cheeper~, _s._
1. The Marsh t.i.tmouse.
_Sibbald._
2. The t.i.t-lark, S.
_Fleming._
~Moss-corns~, _s. pl._ Silverweed, S.; also _Moss-crops_, and _Moor-gra.s.s_.
~Moss-crops~, _s. pl._ Cotton-rush, and Hare's-tailed Rush, S.
_Lightfoot._
~Moss-troopers~, _s._ Banditti who inhabited the marshy country of Liddisdale, and subsisted chiefly by rapine.
_Lay Last Minstrel._
MOSSFAW, _s._ A ruinous building, Fife.
MOT, _v. aux._ May.
V. ~Mat~.
MOTE, _s._
1. A little hill, or barrow.
_b.e.l.l.e.n.den._
A. S. _mot_, Isl. _mote_, conventus hominum, applied to a little hill, because anciently conventions were held on eminences. Hence our _Mote-hill_ of Scone.
2. Sometimes improperly used for a high hill.
_b.e.l.l.e.n.den._
3. A rising ground, a knoll, S. B.
_Ross._
_To_ MOTE, _v. a._
1. To pick motes out of any thing, S.
2. To _mote_ one's self, to louse, S.
3. To use means for discovering imperfections, S.
_Douglas._
MOTH, _adj._ Warm, sultry, Loth.
MOTHER, _s._ _The mother on beer_, &c., the lees working up, S.
Germ. _moder_, id.
