Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Containing motes; abounding in motes.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Filled with motes, or fine floating dust.

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  • adjective Filled with motes, or fine floating dust.

Etymologies

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mote +‎ -ed

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Examples

  • Well, master took 'is motor-car, an' moted 'ere an' there,

    Songs of Action Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1898

  • Well, master took 'is motor-car, an' moted 'ere an' there,

    Songs Of Action Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1898

  • Well, master took 'is motor-car, an' moted 'ere an' there,

    Songs of Action Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • Halman's only advantage after being 'moted' was the home ballpark where routine fly balls to right field are doubles and homers.

    Prospect Insider 2008

  • In the heady days when Hamish had been pro\expndtw2 moted to sergeant before being demoted, Willie had been \expndtw-1 his police constable but had fallen in love with a relative of \expndtw6 the restaurant owner, had married her and had left the \expndtw-6 force. \cf0\expndtw0\par

    Poem About Never Growing Up Ryan McDermott 2010

  • There were an empty dynamite box and a half-dozen beer bottles moted with dust in one corner, and I remembered the seismograph company that had used the houseboat as a storage shack for their explosives two years ago.

    The Convict and Other Stories James Lee Burke 2010

  • A plane I could fly with a moted control, he says, breaking my reverie.

    Hollywood Savage Kristin McCloy 2010

  • A plane I could fly with a moted control, he says, breaking my reverie.

    Hollywood Savage Kristin McCloy 2010

  • Hogarth pro­moted native English artists, like himself, over imported contin­ental tal­ent.

    Archive 2009-09-01 Hels 2009

  • Hogarth pro­moted native English artists, like himself, over imported contin­ental tal­ent.

    C18th Pleasure Gardens; fashions, food, drink, dancing, music Hels 2009

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