n. [ Berg + mote meeting. ] A court held in Derbyshire, in England, for deciding controversies between miners. Blount. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Barmote. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (AS. Law) [ Burgh + mote meeting. ] A court or meeting of a burgh or borough; a borough court held three times yearly. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ See Commove. ] To commove; to disturb; to stir up. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Society being more or less commoted and made uncomfortable. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Demoted p. pr. & vb. n. Demoting ] [ Pref. de- + mote, as in promote; cf. L. demovere to remove. ] To reduce to a lower grade or rank, as in the military, one's employment, or in school; to assign to a lower position.
Syn. -- bump, relegate, kick downstairs, break one's rank. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ AS. folcmōt folk meeting. ] An assembly of the people; esp. (Sax. Law), a general assembly of the people to consider and order matters of the commonwealth; also, a local court. [ Hist. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

To which folkmote they all with one consent
Agreed to travel. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who takes part in a folkmote, or local court. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ As. gem&unr_;t an assembly. See Meet, v. t. ] (AS. Hist.) A meeting; -- used in combination, as, Witenagemote, an assembly of the wise men. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ by back-formation from locomotion. ] To change location; move, travel, or proceed.
Syn. -- travel, go, move. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. same as mnemonic.
Syn. -- mnemonic, mnemotechnic. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; memory + &unr_; art: cf. F. mnémotechnie. ] Mnemonics. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. See 1st Mot. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A body of persons who meet for discussion, esp. about the management of affairs; as, a folkmote. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A place of meeting for discussion. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mote bell, the bell rung to summon to a mote. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The flourish sounded on a horn by a huntsman. See Mot, n., 3, and Mort. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. mot, AS. mot. ] A small particle, as of floating dust; anything proverbially small; a speck. [ 1913 Webster ]

The little motes in the sun do ever stir, though there be no wind. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

We are motes in the midst of generations. Landor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Filled with motes, or fine floating dust; as, the air. “Moted sunbeams.” Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., a dim. of mot word; cf. It. mottetto, dim. of motto word, device. See Mot, Motto. ] (Mus.) A composition adapted to sacred words in the elaborate polyphonic church style; an anthem. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. (Med., Physiol.) Pertaining to or having normal blood pressure. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. In old English law, a court, or mote, held in a port town. [ Obs. ] Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. post- + remote. ] More remote in subsequent time or order. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. More remote in previous time or prior order. [ 1913 Webster ]

In some cases two more links of causation may be introduced; one of them may be termed the preremote cause, the other the postremote effect. E. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Promoted; p. pr. & vb. n. Promoting. ] [ L. promotus, p. p. of promovere to move forward, to promote; pro forward + movere to move. See Move. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To contribute to the growth, enlargement, or prosperity of (any process or thing that is in course); to forward; to further; to encourage; to advance; to excite; as, to promote learning; to promote disorder; to promote a business venture. “Born to promote all truth.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To exalt in station, rank, or honor; to elevate; to raise; to prefer; to advance; as, to promote an officer. [ 1913 Webster ]

I will promote thee unto very great honor. Num. xxii. 17. [ 1913 Webster ]

Exalt her, and she shall promote thee. Prov. iv. 18. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To forward; advance; further; patronize; help; exalt; prefer; elevate; dignify. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To urge on or incite another, as to strife; also, to inform against a person. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, forwards, advances, or promotes; an encourager; as, a promoter of charity or philosophy. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Specifically, one who sets on foot, and takes the preliminary steps in, a scheme for the organization of a corporation, a joint-stock company, or the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One who excites; as, a promoter of sedition. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. An informer; a makebate. [ Obs. ] Tusser. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Genetics) The region of a DNA molecule to which RNA polymerase binds to initiate the process of transcription, i.e. the synthesis of RNA whose sequence is determined by the sequence of the DNA adjacent to the promoter site; also, the sequence of bases in the DNA at such a promoter site. [ PJC ]

6. (Chem.) A substance that increases the activity of a catalyst, when present in small quantity in the reaction mixture. [ PJC ]

a. [ Compar. Remoter superl. Remotest. ] [ L. remotus, p. p. of removere to remove. See Remove. ] 1. Removed to a distance; not near; far away; distant; -- said in respect to time or to place; as, remote ages; remote lands. [ 1913 Webster ]

Places remote enough are in Bohemia. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Remote from men, with God he passed his days. Parnell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, removed; not agreeing, according, or being related; -- in various figurative uses. Specifically: (a) Not agreeing; alien; foreign. “All these propositions, how remote soever from reason.” Locke. (b) Not nearly related; not close; as, a remote connection or consanguinity. (c) Separate; abstracted. “Wherever the mind places itself by any thought, either amongst, or remote from, all bodies.” Locke. (d) Not proximate or acting directly; primary; distant. “From the effect to the remotest cause.” Granville. (e) Not obvious or sriking; as, a remote resemblance. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Bot.) Separated by intervals greater than usual. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Re*mote"ly, adv. -- Re*mote"ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

imp. (and rare p. p.) of Smite. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ CF. Smut. ] Dirty; foul. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Swain + mote meeting: cf. LL. swanimotum. ] (Eng. Forest Law) A court held before the verders of the forest as judges, by the steward of the court, thrice every year, the swains, or freeholders, within the forest composing the jury. [ Written also swanimote, and sweinmote. ] Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Eng. Forest Law) See Swainmote. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Swainmote. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. terremote, terremoete, fr. L. terra the earth + movere, motum, to move. ] An earthquake. [ Obs. ] Gower. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to the variation of tensile strength with the temperature. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Thermo- + tension. ] A process of increasing the strength of wrought iron by heating it to a determinate temperature, and giving to it, while in that state, a mechanical strain or tension in the direction in which the strength is afterward to be exerted. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Anciently, a meeting of the inhabitants of a ward; also, a court formerly held in each ward of London for trying defaults in matters relating to the watch, police, and the like. Brande & C. “Wards and wardmotes.” Piers Plowman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. witena gemōt an assembly of the wise; wita a wise man + gemōt assembly. ] (AS. Hist.) A meeting of wise men; the national council, or legislature, of England in the days of the Anglo-Saxons, before the Norman Conquest. [ 1913 Webster ]