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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.

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