Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Containing motes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Scot. Full of, or consisting of, motes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Scotland Full of, or consisting of,
motes .
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Examples
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Everything is in the handsomest style, — silver and goold plate at breakfast, lunch, and dinner; and his crest and motty, a beehive, with the Latn word industria, meaning industry, on everything — even on the chany juggs and things in my bedd-room.
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Everything is in the handsomest style, -- silver and goold plate at breakfast, lunch, and dinner; and his crest and motty, a beehive, with the Latn word
The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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"Gerrard is one of the biggest cheat and its time that refs did something bout it." motty
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"Gerrard is one of the biggest cheat and its time that refs did something bout it." motty
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The colour scheme has nothing to do with it. motty, you have to ensure that the entire edges of the tiles match up, black-to-black and white-to-white.
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“shining motty through the reek,” to use the expression of a bard of that time and country, illumined the grey hairs of the old man, and the sacred page which he studied.
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` ` shining motty through the reek, '' to use the expression of a bard of that time and country, illumined the grey hairs of the old man, and the sacred page which he studied.
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"shining motty through the reek," to use the expression of a bard of that time and country, illumined the grey hairs of the old man, and the sacred page which he studied.
The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 Walter Scott 1801
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"shining motty through the reek," to use the expression of a bard of that time and country, illumined the grey hairs of the old man, and the sacred page which he studied.
The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete Walter Scott 1801
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"Nathan Sumner, I say; thou'rt al'ays out wi 'thy motty if a body speaks.
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2) John Roby 1821
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