movabled 
movabledt, . [< movable + -ed 2 .~\ Furnished. 
They entered into that straw-thatched cottage, scurvily 
built, naughtily moveabled, and all besmoked. 
Urquhart, tr. of Rabelais, iii. 17. (Danes.) 
movableness (mo"va-bl-nes),. [Also moveable- 
ness; < movable + -HC.VS.] The state or property 
of being movable ; mobility ; susceptibility of 
movement. 
movably (mo'va-bli), adv. [Also moveably; < 
movable + -fy 2 .] In a movable manner or state ; 
so as to be capable of movement. 
moval (mo'val), n. [<. move + -al.] Movement; 
removal. 
And it remov'd, whose movall with loud shout 
Did fill the echoing aire. 
Vicars, tr. of Virgil (1632). (Sares.) 
move (mo'v), v. ; pret. and pp. moved, ppr. mov- 
ing. [Early mod. E. also moove, mieve; < ME. 
moven, moeven, meven, mefen, < OF. mover, mou- 
ver, muver, also moceir, muveir, movoir, F. mouvoir 
= Sp. Pg. mover = It. movere, muovere, < L. mo- 
vers, move, = Skt. miv, push. Hence ult. (< 
L. movere) E. amove, remove, promote, remote, 
mobile, moblei, mob 2 , moteG, motile, motion, mo- 
tor, motive, amotion, emotion, commotion, mo- 
ment, mutine, etc.] I. trans. 1. To cause to 
change place or posture in any manner or by 
any means; carry, convey, or draw from one 
place to another; set in motion; stir; impel: as, 
the wind moves a ship ; the servant moved the fur- 
niture. Specifically, in chess, draughts, and some similar 
games, to change the position of (a piece) in the course of 
play : as, to move the queen's bishop. 
Were she the prize of bodily force, 
Himself beyond the rest pushing could inane 
The chair of Idris. Tennyson, Geraint. 
My liege, I move my bishop. Tennyson, Becket, Prol. 
2. To excite to action ; influence; induce; in- 
cite; arouse; awaken, as the senses or the 
mental faculties or emotions. 
But Medea mauet hym a moneth to lenge. 
Then leuyt thai the lond and no leue toke. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.X 1. 986. 
The Sowdon anon he ganne his councell to meve 
Of that mater that towchid hym soo nere. 
Generydes(E. E. T. S.), 1. 1760. 
I moved the king my master to speak in the behalf of 
my daughter. Shak., All's Well, iv. 5. 75. 
I little thought, good Cousin, that you of all Men would 
have moved me to a Matter which of all Things in the 
World I most decline. Baker, Chronicles, p. 225. 
I told him that my business was to Cachoa, where I had 
been once before ; that then I went by Water, but now I 
was moved by my curiosity to travel by Land. 
Dumpier, Voyages, II. i. 94. 
3. To rouse or excite the feelings of; provoke ; 
stir up : used either absolutely or with a phrase 
or preposition to indicate the nature of the feel- 
ings roused : as, he was moved with or to anger 
or compassion. Used absolutely: (a) To affect with 
anger; irritate. 
Be not mooued in case thy friend tell thee thy faultes full 
playne : 
Requyte him not with mallyce great, nor his good will dis- 
dayne. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 99. 
Being mooed, he strikes whate'er is in his way. 
Shale., Venus and Adonis, 1. 623. 
(&) To affect with tender feelings ; touch. 
She gan him soft to shrieve, 
And wooe with fair intreatie, to disclose 
Which of the Nymphes his heart so sore did mieve. 
Spenser, F. Q., IV. xii. 26. 
My poor mistress, moved therewithal, 
Wept bitterly. Shak., T. O. of V., iv. 4. 175. 
" Trust in God " is trust in the law of conduct ; " delight 
in the Eternal " is, in a deeply moved way of expression, 
the happiness we all feel to spring from conduct. 
M. Arnold, Literature and Dogma, i. 
(c) To agitate or influence by persuasion or rhetorical art. 
Seeing their power to move the masses, the pontiffs accu- 
mulated privileges upon them. Welsh, Eng. Lit., I. 78. 
These tidings produced great excitement among the 
populace, which is always more moved by what impresses 
the senses than by what is addressed to the reason. 
Macaulay, Hist. Eng., vi. 
4. To propose; bring forward ; off er formally ; 
submit, as a motion for consideration by a 
deliberative assembly : now used only in such 
phrases as to move a resolution, or to move that 
a proposal be agreed to. 
I durste meve no mateere to make him to tangle. 
Piers Plowman (A), ix. 113. 
I speak this of a conscience, and I mean and move it of a 
good will to your grace and your realm. 
Latimer, 2d Sermon bef. Edw. VI., 1550. 
Let me but move one question to your daughter. 
Shak., Much Ado, iv. 1. 74. 
This ... he moved as a sixth article of compact. 
Bancroft, Hist. Const., II. 115. 
5. To submit a question, motion, or formal pro- 
posal to. 
3882 
The pastor moved the governour if they might without 
offence to the court examine other witnesses. 
Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 375. 
6f. To address one's self to ; call upon; apply 
to ; speak to about an affair. 
I have heard y' when he hath been moved in the bussi- 
nes he hath put it of from him selfe, and referred it to 
ye others. John Robinson, quoted in Bradford's Plymouth 
[Plantation, p. 48. 
The Florentine will move us 
For speedy aid. Shak., All's Well,!. 2. 6. 
7t. To complete the course of. 
After the monethis were meuyt of the mene true, 
Then waknet vp were and myche wale sorow ! 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 8182. 
8. To cause to act or operate: as, to move 
the bowels. =Syn. 2. To influence, actuate, persuade, 
prompt, incite, induce, incline, instigate. 3. To stir, agi- 
tate. 
II. intrans. 1. To pass from place to place ; 
change position, continuously or occasionally : 
as, the earth moves round the sun. 
The moving waters, at their priestlike task 
Of pure ablution round earth's human shores. 
Keats, Last Sonnet. 
2. To advance as in a course of development or 
progress. 
Al of nou3t hast maad to meeue, 
Bothe heueu <fe earthe, day & nyjt. 
Hymns to Virgin, etc. (E. E. T. S.), p. 101. 
One far-off divine event, 
To which the whole creation moves. 
Tennyson, In Memoriam, Conclusion. 
3. To change one's place or posture consciously, 
or by direct personal effort : often in a specified 
direction from or to an indicated place. 
The Janizary seemed to be much afraid, talked often of 
the heat of the weather, and would not move until he 
knew they [the Arabs) were gone, and which way they 
went. Pocoete, Description of the East, II. i. 132. 
He generally says his prayers without moving from his 
shop. . W. Lane, Modern Egyptians, I. 189. 
4. To walk ; proceed ; march. 
While still moving in column up the Jacinto road he met 
a force of the enemy, and had his advance badly beaten 
and driven back upon the main road. 
U. S. Grant, Personal Memoirs, I. 412. 
There was nothing of the superb gait with which a regi. 
ment of tall Highlanders moves behind ita music, solemn 
and inevitable, like a natural phenomenon. 
R. L. Stevenson, Inland Voyage, p. 202. 
5. To carry one's self, with reference to de- 
meanor, port, or gait: as, to move with dignity 
and grace. 
He moves a god, resistless in his course. 
And seems a match for more than mortal force. 
Pope, Iliad, xii. 557. 
Katie never ran ; she moved 
To meet me. Tennyson, The Brook. 
6. To change residence: as, we move next week. 
7. To take action; begin to act; act. 
As this affair had happened, it might have been of bad 
consequences to have moved in it at Damascus, so I took 
no further notice of it. 
Pococke, Description of the East, II. i. 127. 
God moves in a mysterious way 
His wonders to perform. 
Cowper, Light Shining out of Darkness. 
8. In chess, draughts, and some similar games, 
to change the position of a piece in the course 
of play : as, whose turn is it to move f 
Check you move so wildly. Tennyson, Becket, Prol. 
9. To bow or lift the hat ; salute. [Colloq.] 
At least we move when we meet one another. 
Dickens, Bleak House, rrix. 
10. In music, of a voice or voice-part, to pro- 
gress from one pitch to another ; pass from tone 
to tone. 
move (mov), n. [< move, v.~\ 1. A change of 
position or relation. Specifically, in chess, draughts, 
etc. : (a) A change of the position of a piece made in the 
regular course of play. 
The signora did not love at all, but she was up to any 
move on the board. TroUope, Barchester Towers, xxvii. 
(6) The right or turn to move a piece : as, it is my move 
now. 
Becket. It is your move. 
Henry. Well there. (Moves.) 
Tennyson, Becket, Prol. 
2. A proceeding; a course of action: as, he 
hoped by that move to disconcert his opponents. 
An unseen hand makes all their moves. 
Cmdey, Destiny. 
On the move, moving or migrating, as animals ; active or 
progressive. To have the move, in draughts, to occupy 
the situation in which that player is who can flrst force his 
adversary to offer a man to be taken. To know a move 
or two, 01- to be up to a move, to be smart or sharp; 
be acquainted with tricks. [Slang. ) = Syn. Movement, etc. 
See motion. 
moveable, moveableness, etc. See movable, 
etc. 
movement 
mpve-allt, The name of a game, apparently 
like "my lady's toilet." Davies. 
Come, Morrice, you that love Christmas sports, what say 
you to the game of move-all ? Miss Burney, Cecilia, i. 2. 
moveless (mov'les), . [< move + -tes.] Not 
moving; immovable; fixed. 
The Grecian phalanx, moveless as a tow'r, 
On all sides batter'd, yet resists his pow'r. 
Pope, Iliad, xv. 144. 
Moveless as an image did she stand. 
William Morris, Earthly Paradise, II. 216. 
movement (mov'ment), >. [< OF. movement, 
F. momement = Sp'.' movimiento = Pg. It. movi- 
mento, < ML. movimentum, movement, < L. mo- 
vere, move: see move, v. Cf. moment, momen- 
tum.'] 1. The act or condition of moving, in 
any sense of that word. 
Sound and movement are so correlated that one is strong 
when the other is strong, one diminishes when the other 
diminishes, and the one stops when the other stops. 
Blaserna, Sound, p. 7. 
The circumstances of awakening from sleep, wherein 
movement as a general rule appears to precede sensation. 
A. Bain, Emotions and Will, p. 288. 
2. A particular act or motion ; figuratively, a 
quality or effect as of motion. 
Forces are not communicated by one thing to another ; 
only movements can be communicated. 
Lotze, Microcosmus (trans.), I. 58. 
The movements of living things have direct reference to 
consciousness, to the satisfaction of pleasures, and to the 
avoidance of pains. 
E. D. Cope, Origin of the Fittest, p. 231. 
That crenellated palace from whose overhanging cornice 
a tall, straight tower springs up with a movement as light 
as that of a single plume in the bonnet of a captain. 
H. James, Jr., Confidence, i. 
3. Action; incident. 
The dialogue is written with much vivacity and grace, 
and with as much dramatic movement as is compatible 
with only two interlocutors. Prescott, Ferd. and Isa., i. 18. 
4. A course or series of actions or incidents 
moving more or less continuously in the direc- 
tion of some specific end: as, the antislavery 
movement; a reactionary movement. 
The whole modern movement of metaphysical philoso- 
phy. J. D. Morell. 
That much-misunderstood movement of old times known 
and ridiculed as euphuism was in reality only a product 
of this instinct of refinement in the choice of terms. 
The Atlantic, LVIII. 425. 
5. The extent or value of commercial transac- 
tions for some specified time or place : as, the 
movement in coffee is insignificant. 
The total movement of bonds held for national banks was 
$87,967,300. Rep. Sec. Treas. (1886), I. 58. 
6. A particular form or arrangement of mov- 
ing parts in mechanism : as, the movement of a 
watch (that is, all that part of a watch that is not 
the case) ; the movement of an organ or a piano- 
forte. 7. JUilit., a change of position of a 
body of troops in tactical or strategical evolu- 
tions. 8. In music: (a) Motion; melodic pro- 
gression. See motion, 14. (6) Rhythm; meter; 
accentual character: as, a march movement, 
(c) Tempo ; pace ; relative speed of perform- 
ance: aSj with a quick movement, (d) A prin- 
cipal division or section of an extended work, 
like a sonata or a symphony, having its own 
key, tempo, themes, and development, more 
or less distinct from the others Amoeboid 
movements, Brownlan movement, ciliary move- 
ment, Circus movements. See the qualifying words. 
Geneva movement, in clockwork, calculating-machin- 
ery, and recording-mechanism, a peculiar system of wheel- 
work, consisting of a notched wheel and a single-toothed 
wheel (which may be smaller than the notched wheel), 
the spaces between the notches on 
the wheel B being made concave on 
the perimeter, and the concave parts 
being arcs of circles having the same 
radius as the toothless part of the 
perimeter of the wheel A. The 
wheels are so centered in relation 
with each other that, in rotating, the 
tooth of the wheel A engages a notch 
In the wheel B, moving the latter 
radially, and after the tooth releases 
itself from the notch the perimeter 
of the wheel A engages with the ad- 
jacent concave in the wheel B and 
locks the latter, restraining it from 
moving till the wheel A has again 
brought its single tooth around into 
engagement with the next notch in 
the wheel B. The latter is thus 
moved once and locked at each turn 
of the wheel A. If the wheel B has 
ten notches, it will turn once, and 
can thus be made to carry or record 
one for every ten turns of the wheel 
A , and in this form it is much used in 
various measuring-, counting-, and adding-machines and 
recording-instruments. Where a stop-movement of the 
wheel B is desired, the notches are spaced according to the 
movement required, and the wheels have equal diameters. 
The Geneva Stop 
Movement, used in 
Swiss watches to limit 
the number of revolu- 
tinns in winding up, 
the convexly curved 
part, a It, of the wheel 
B serving as the stop. 
