motley, motly, mottelee

& s. [O. Fr. mattelé clotted, knotted, curdled, or curd-like.] A. As adjective: 1. Composed or consisting of various colors; var iegated in color; parti-colored. "They that come to see a fellow In a long motley coat, guarded with yellow, Will be deceived." Shakesp.: Henry VII. (Prol) 2. Dre ed in motley or parti-colored clothes. "A fool, a fool!-I met a fool 'i the forest, A motley fool."- Shakesp .: As You Like It , ii. 7. 3. Composed or consisting of various discordant elements; diversified, various, heterogeneous. "Where yon proud palace, fashion's hallow'd fane, Spreads wide her portals for the motley train." Byron: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. B. As substantive: 1. A dre of various colors; the parti-colored dre of domestic fools or jesters. "That's as much as to say, I wear not motley in my brain."-Shakesp.: Twelfth Night , i. 5. *2. A fool, a jester. *mot'-leỹ, v . t. [MOTLEY, a.] To variegate. "With you sand dies He motleys all the meads." Sylvester: Eden , 89. IMG:content-1429.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1430.png:[blocks in formation] mot-tram-ite, s. [After Mottram St. Andrews, Cheshire, England, where found; suff. -ite ( Min .).] Min .: A mineral occurring in thin, crystalline encrustations. Hardne , 3; specific gravity, 5.894; luster, resinous; color, black; when thin and seen by transmitted light, yellow; streak, yellow. Com position: Vanadic acid, 18-74; protoxide of lead, 57-18; protoxide of copper, 20-39; water, 3.60=100. Found on Keuper Sandstone. *mot-tě, a . [Eng. mot(e); -y.) Full of motes; consisting of motes. IMG:content-1431.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1432.png:[blocks in formation] môu-chard' (d silent), s. (Fr.) A police spy. (Used as a term of contempt in France.) mou-cher, subst . [Eng. mouch; -er.) One who mouches; one who leads a semi-vagabond life, hav- ing no fixed home, and living by selling water- cre es, wild flowers, birds' nests and eggs, and other things which may be obtained for the gath- ering. *moule, v. i. [Fr. mouler.] To grow moldy; to mold; to waste away. "This white top writeth min olde yeres; Min herte is also mouled as min heres." A. In trans.: To cast the feathers, hair, skin, horns, ., as birds and other animals; to mew. (Seldom used except in reference to the shedding of feathers by birds. Prof. Owen, however, employs it of the Arachnid a, the Crustacea, the Epizoa, and the Insect a.) "Robin-redbreasts, after their moulting , grow to be red again by degrees." -Bacon : Nat . Hist ., § 851 B. Transitive : IMG:content-1433.png:[blocks in formation] Her .: A ball or globe, the sign of sovereign authority and majesty, and forming part of the regalia of an emperor or king. It is sur- mounted by a cro and en- circled with a horizontal band, from the upper edge cular band, both enriched IMG:content-1434.png:[graphic][subsumed][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small] IMG:content-1435.png:[blocks in formation] 1. To rise up; to rise on high; to ascend. 2775