Hypertext Webster Gateway: "mot"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

He moot as well say one word as another --Chaucer.

The wordes mote be cousin to the deed. --Chaucer.

Men moot [i.e., one only] give silver to the poore
freres. --Chaucer.

{So mote it be}, so be it; amen; -- a phrase in some rituals,
as that of the Freemasons.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Tarquin's eye may read the mot afar. --Shak.

2. A pithy or witty saying; a witticism. [A Gallicism]

Here and there turns up a . . . savage mot. --N.
Brit. Rev.

3. A note or brief strain on a bugle. --Sir W. Scott.

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