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An old form of moose. moose (mös), n. [Formerly also moos is; those who hold that it is the same as the elk of Europe; the moose-deer of America, by some considered specifically distinct from the elk of Europe, and then called Alces american a. It is the largest animal of its kind in America, and corresponds to the elk of Europe, being very different from the American elk or wapiti, Elaphus ( Cervus ) can a dens is. The male may attain the height of 17 hands, and weigh 1,000 pounds or more. The form is very ungainly, with humped withers and sloping quarters, and a very heavy, unshapely head. The horns are enormous and completely palmate, with many short points. A kind of bag or pouch hangs from the throat. The limbs are thick, with broad hoofs; the tail is very short; the ears are large and slouching; and the muzzle is very broad, with a thick pendulous upper lip. The color is brown of variable shade. The female is hornle , and much smaller and more slightly built than the male. The moose inhabits the northernmost part of the United States, as northern New England, and much of British America. The cut at elk is an equally good figure of the moose. The Beasts [of New England) be as follow eth: The Kingly Lion and the strong-arm'd Bear, The large-limb'd Moosis with the tripping Dear; Quil-darting Porcupines and Rack cames be, Castled in the hollow of an aged Tree. S. Clarke , Four Plantations in America (1670), p. 32. moose-bird (mös'bėrd), п . The Canada jay or whisky-jack, Per is ore us can a dens is : so called from its frequent a ociation with the moose. moose-call (mös'kâl), n. A trumpet of birchbark used by hunters in calling moose to an moot The moose. See elm. 1. The leather ambuscade or blind. Sportsman's Gazetteer. [U. S. and Canada.] moose-deer (mös'dēr), n. moose-elm (mösʼelm), n. moosewood (mös' wud), n. wood, Dirca palustris.-2. The striped maple, Acer Penn sylvan i cum. See maple1. moose-yard (mös'yärd), n. A space or area in the woods occupied by a herd of moose in winter, shut in on all sides by deep snow. The snow where the animals herd together to browse upon moosewood, mo , etc., being trampled down, a sort of inclosure is formed, which may be occupied by many individuals as long as the supply of food lasts. [U. S. and Canada.] Mooslim, n. and a. Same as Moslem. moostt, a. A Middle English form of most. moot1 (möt), n. [ = MHG. muoz = Icel. mōt = Goth. * gamot (in deriv. gamõtjan, meet), a meeting (cf. Sw. möte, Dan. möde = E. meet, n.). Hence moot1, v., and meet1.] 1. A meeting; a formal a embly. In this sense obsolete, except as used, chiefly in the archaic (Middle English) form mote, in certain historical terms, as folkmoot or folkmote, hallmote, etc. See def. 3. Alle the men in that mote maden much joye To apere in his pre sense prestly that tyme. Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), 1. 910. The monke was going to London ward, There to holde grete mote . Lytell Geste of Robyn Hode (Child's Ballads, V. 88). 2. The place of such a meeting.-3. In early Eng. hist., a court formed by a embling the men of the village or tun, the hundred, or the kingdom, or their representatives. It exercised political and administrative functions with some judicial powers. Compare witena - gemot. See the quotation. The four or ten villagers who followed the reeve of each township to the general muster of the hundred were held to represent the whole body of the township from whence they came. Their voice was its voice, their doing its doing, their pledge its pledge. The hundred- moot , a moot which was made by this gathering of the representatives of the townships that lay within its bounds, thus became at once a court of appeal from the moots of each separate village as well as of arbitration in dispute between township and township. The judgment of graver crimes, and of life or death, fell to its share; while it nece arily po e ed the same right of law-making for the hundred that the village- moot po e ed for each separate village. And as hundred- moot stood above town- moot, so above the hundred- moot stood the Folk - moot, the general muster of the people in arms, at once war-host and highest law-court, and general Parliament of the tribe. But whether in Folk moot or hundred- moot, the principle of representation was preserved. In both the constitutional forms, the forms of deliberation and decision, were the same. In each the priests proclaimed silence, the ealdormen of higher blood spoke, groups of freemen from each township stood round, shaking their spears in a ent, clashing shields in applause, settling matters in the end by loud shouts of "Aye" or "Nay. J. R. Green, Hist. of Eng. People, I. i. 4. Dispute; debate; discu ion; specifically, in law, an argument on a hypothetical case by way of practice. The pleadynge used in courte and chauncery called motes, where a case is appoynted to be moted by uersie. certayne yonge men, contaynyng some doubtefull contro Sir T. Elyot , The Govern our, i. 14. I hard that your Grace, in the disputes of al purposes quherwith, after the exemple of the wyse in former ages, you use to season your moat . A. Hume , Orthographie (E. E. T. S.), Ded., p. 2. Orators have their declamations; lawyers have their moots. Bacon , Church of Eng. Mark moot. See mark1.- Swain moot or mote, in old Eng. law, a court of the forests, held periodically before the verderers, and having jurisdiction of poaching, etc. Sometimes written swan moot. - Wood moot or mote, in old Eng. forest law, an inferior court held every forty days, a sort of minor "regard" or inspection, in which presentments were made and attachments received. Stubbs. moot1 (möt), a. [As an adj., to be regarded as contracted from mooted. Otherwise moot point and moot case must be compounds, For it was a moot point in heaven whether he could alter fate or not; and indeed some pa ages in Virgil would make us suspect that he was of opinion Jupiter might defer fate, though he could not alter it. Dryden, Epic Poetry. Whether this young gentleman. combined with the miserly vice of an old one any of the open-handed vices of a young one was a moot point. Dickens, Our Mutual Friend, ii. 5. IMG:content-0939.png:[graphic] IMG:content-0940.png:[blocks in formation] moot If men would be as diligent in the rooting out of vices and grafting in of virtues as they are in mooting questions, there would not be so many evils and scandals among the people. Thomas a Kempis, Imit. of Christ (trans.), i. 3. This is the most general expre ion of a problem which hardly has been mentioned, much le mooted, in this country. Leibnitz mooted this objection. Sir W. Hamilton. Westminster Rev. Specifically-2. In law, to plead or argue (a cause or supposed cause) merely by way of exercise or practice.-31. To speak; utter. The first sillabis that thow did mute , Was pa da lyn [Where's Davie Lyndsay?]. Sir D. Lyndsay, Works, p. 263. II.t in trans. 1. To argue; dispute. Azens thee nyle y not moote . Political Poems , etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 202. 2. To plead or argue a supposed cause. There is a difference between mooting and pleading, between fencing and fighting. B. Jonson, Discoveries. He talks statutes as fiercely as if he had mooted seven years in the inns of court. moot2t, n. Bp. Earle, Micro-cosmographie, An Attorney. An obsolete variant of mot3 . The master of the game, or his lieutenant, sounded three long mootes , or blasts with the horn, for the uncoupling Strutt , Sports and Pastimes, p. moots (möt), v . t. [Origin obscure.] To dig. Davies . IMG:content-0941.png:[blocks in formation] Daunsinge to pipis In myrthe with moppis , myrrours of synne. Richard the Redele , iii. 276. This mop meynes that he may marke men to ther mede He makis many maistries and mervayles emange. York Plays , p. 299.