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Mote vs Bote - What's the difference?

mote | bote |

As nouns the difference between mote and bote

is that mote is thought, idea while bote is .

mote

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A small particle; a speck.
  • *
    • Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.
  • A tiny computer for remote sensing. Also known as smartdust.
    • See also
    * floater

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) moten, from (etyl) . Related to (l).

    Verb

    (head)
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.7:
    • he […] kept aloofe for dread to be descryde, / Untill fit time and place he mote' espy, / Where he ' mote worke him scath and villeny.
  • (obsolete) Must.
  • * 1980 , (Erica Jong), Fanny :
    • ‘I shall not take Vengeance into my own Hands. The Goddess will do what She will.’ ‘So mote it be,’ said the Grandmaster.
    Usage notes
    * Generally takes an infinitive without to .

    Etymology 3

    See .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A meeting for discussion.
    • a wardmote in the city of London
  • (obsolete) A body of persons who meet for discussion, especially about the management of affairs.
    • a folkmote
  • (obsolete) A place of meeting for discussion.
    • Derived terms
    * mote bell

    Anagrams

    * ----

    bote

    English

    Alternative forms

    * *

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The atonement, compensation, amends, satisfaction, penance, expiation; as, manbote, a compensation for a man slain.
    • Iesu For synne þat hath my soule bounde, Let þi blessed blood be my bote . — Iesu þat art heuene
  • A payment of any kind.
  • A privilege or allowance of necessaries, especially in feudal times.
  • (legal, historical) A right to take wood from property not one's own.
  • (obsolete) repairs
    • Þey shulde..do bote to brugges þat to-broke were. — Pier's Plowman, 1400
  • (obsolete) advantage, benefit, profit, cure, remedy
    • Heo lufeden bi wurten, bi moren, and bi rote; nas þer nan oðer boten . — Layamon's Brut, 1275

    Usage notes

    * Often used to form compounds indicating a right to take wood only for a specific purpose.

    Synonyms

    * estovers

    Derived terms

    * burghbote * cartbote * firebote * frithbote * haybote * hedgebote * housebote * maegbote * manbote * plowbote, ploughbote * theftbote * wainbote

    References

    (Webster 1913) * Middle English Dictionary ----