moot

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Law A hypothetical case argued by law students as an exercise.
2. n. An ancient English meeting, especially a representative meeting of the freemen of a shire.
3. v. To bring up as a subject for discussion or debate.
4. v. To discuss or debate. See Synonyms at broach¹.
5. v. Law To plead or argue (a case) in a moot court.
6. adj. Subject to debate; arguable: a moot question.
7. adj. Law Without legal significance, through having been previously decided or settled.
8. adj. Of no practical importance; irrelevant.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A meeting; a formal assembly. 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.
2. n. The place of such a meeting.
3. n. In early English history, a court formed by assembling 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.
4. n. Dispute; debate; discussion; specifically, in law, an argument on a hypothetical case by way of practice.
5. Relating to or connected with debatable questions; subject to discussion; discussed or debated; debatable; unsettled.
6. To debate; discuss; argue for and against; introduce or submit for discussion.
7. Specifically.
8. In law, to plead or argue (a cause or supposed cause) merely by way of exercise or practice.
9. To speak; utter.
10. To argue; dispute.
11. To plead or argue a supposed cause.
12. n. An obsolete variant of mot.
13. To dig.
14. n. In ship-building:
15. n. A ring used to gage the diameter of treenails.
16. n. A piece of hard wood bound with iron at both ends, used in making blocks.

Wiktionary

1. n. Australia Vagina.
2. adj. UK Subject to discussion (originally at a moot); arguable, debatable, unsolved or impossible to solve.
3. adj. North America Having no practical impact or relevance.
4. adj. North America Being an exercise of thought; academic.
5. n. A moot court.
6. n. A system of arbitration in many areas of Africa in which the primary goal is to settle a dispute and reintegrate adversaries into society rather than assess penalties.
7. n. Scouting A gathering of Rovers (18 - 26 year-old Scouts). Usually a camp lasting 2 weeks.
8. n. paganism A social gathering of pagans, normally held in a public house.
9. v. To bring up as a subject for debate, to propose.
10. v. To discuss or debate.
11. v. US To make or declare irrelevant.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. obsolete See 1st mot.
2. n. (Shipbuilding) A ring for gauging wooden pins.
3. v. To argue for and against; to debate; to discuss; to propose for discussion.
4. v. Specifically: To discuss by way of exercise; to argue for practice; to propound and discuss in a mock court.
5. v. To render inconsequential, as having no effect on the practical outcome; to render academic.
6. v. To argue or plead in a supposed case.
7. n. A meeting for discussion and deliberation; esp., a meeting of the people of a village or district, in Anglo-Saxon times, for the discussion and settlement of matters of common interest; -- usually in composition.
8. n. A discussion or debate; especially, a discussion of fictitious causes by way of practice.
9. adj. Subject, or open, to argument or discussion; undecided; debatable; mooted.
10. adj. Of purely theoretical or academic interest; having no practical consequence.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a hypothetical case that law students argue as an exercise
2. v. think about carefully; weigh.
3. adj. open to argument or debate
4. adj. of no legal significance (as having been previously decided)