Moot |
See 1st Mot. |
v. |
Moot |
A ring for gauging wooden pins. |
n. |
Moot |
To argue for and against; to debate; to discuss; to propose for discussion. |
v. t. |
Moot |
Specifically: To discuss by way of exercise; to argue for practice; to propound and discuss in a mock court. |
v. t. |
Moot |
To argue or plead in a supposed case. |
v. i. |
Moot |
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; as, folk-moot. |
n. |
Moot |
A discussion or debate; especially, a discussion of fictitious causes by way of practice. |
v. |
Moot |
Subject, or open, to argument or discussion; undecided; debatable; mooted. |
a. |
Moot-house |
A hall for public meetings; a hall of judgment. |
n. |
Moot-hill |
A hill of meeting or council; an elevated place in the open air where public assemblies or courts were held by the Saxons; -- called, in Scotland, mute-hill. |
n. |
Moot |
of Mot |
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Wool-hall |
A trade market in the woolen districts. |
n. |
Hall |
A building or room of considerable size and stateliness, used for public purposes; as, Westminster Hall, in London. |
n. |
Hall |
The chief room in a castle or manor house, and in early times the only public room, serving as the place of gathering for the lord's family with the retainers and servants, also for cooking and eating. It was often contrasted with the bower, which was the private or sleeping apartment. |
n. |
Hall |
A vestibule, entrance room, etc., in the more elaborated buildings of later times. |
n. |
Hall |
Any corridor or passage in a building. |
n. |
Hall |
A name given to many manor houses because the magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion; a chief mansion house. |
n. |
Hall |
A college in an English university (at Oxford, an unendowed college). |
n. |
Hall |
The apartment in which English university students dine in common; hence, the dinner itself; as, hall is at six o'clock. |
n. |
Hall |
Cleared passageway in a crowd; -- formerly an exclamation. |
n. |