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_Lightfoot._

~Moss-troopers~, _s._ Banditti who inhabited the marshy country of Liddisdale, and subsisted chiefly by rapine.

_Lay Last Minstrel._

MOSSFAW, _s._ A ruinous building, Fife.

MOT, _v. aux._ May.

V. ~Mat~.

MOTE, _s._

1. A little hill, or barrow.

_b.e.l.l.e.n.den._

A. S. _mot_, Isl. _mote_, conventus hominum, applied to a little hill, because anciently conventions were held on eminences. Hence our _Mote-hill_ of Scone.

2. Sometimes improperly used for a high hill.

_b.e.l.l.e.n.den._

3. A rising ground, a knoll, S. B.

_Ross._

_To_ MOTE, _v. a._

1. To pick motes out of any thing, S.

2. To _mote_ one's self, to louse, S.

3. To use means for discovering imperfections, S.

_Douglas._

MOTH, _adj._ Warm, sultry, Loth.

MOTHER, _s._ _The mother on beer_, &c., the lees working up, S.

Germ. _moder_, id.

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