movement 
This form of tin- movement ia used in watch-work, and 
is HomfthiM- r.iiini /,,/, ,</,,,/. - Grave, muscular, etc. , 
movement. SeetheadJwttTM. Movement of plants, 
the spontaneous activity of plants, abundantly attested in 
a great variety of ways, and latterly the subject of an im- 
portant oilmen of vegetable physiology. Most tlnieellular 
p!;ui(s (bacteria, etc.) possess projter motions of their own, 
not distinguishable from those of animals, and the same is 
true of the spores of alKiv and the spermatozooids of most 
cryptogams. For (If mo\ rim iits of the more highly organ- 
ized plants, see circitinnutatwn, geotrrrjrigin, hflwtr"in.--in 
apoi/eotropiitiit, aphetuttropitrtn, ituiijeutropimn., diahefitttrit- 
ffi.tm, t-ic. - Oxford Movement, a name sometimes given 
to a movement in the Church of England toward High- 
rhuivli prinri|ilrx, as against a supposed tendency toward 
liberalism and rationalism: so called from the fact that 
it originated in the University of Oxford (1833-41). See 
Tractarianinn, Puseyian. - Syn. Move, etc. See motion. 
movement-cure (mov'ment-kur), . The use of 
selected bodily movements with a view to the 
cure of disease ; kinesitherapy. 
moventt (mo'veut), a. and . [= OF. movant, 
V. iiiiHtciint = Sp. iiioriente = Pg. It. movente, < 
I,. limn n(l-)s, ppr. of movere, move: see move.'} 
1. a. Moving; not quiescent. 
To suppose a body to be self-existent, or to have the pow- 
er of Being, is as absurd as to suppose it to be self-mown*, 
or to have the power of motion. 
JT. Grew, Cosmologia Sacra, 1. 1. 
II. M. That which moves anything. 
But whether the sun or earth be the common movent 
cannot be determin'd but by a farther appeal. 
Glanntte, Vanity of Dogmatizing, ix. 
mover (mo'ver), n. [< move + -er 1 . Cf. OF. 
moceor, moveur, mouveur = Sp. Pg. movedor 
= It. movitore, mover.] 1. One who or that 
which imparts motion or impels to action. 
O thou eternal Mover of the heavens, 
Look with a gentle eye upon this wretch ! 
SAa*.,2Hen. VI., ill. 8. 19. 
2. One who or that which is in motion or ac- 
tion. 
In all nations where a number are to draw any one way, 
there must be some one principal mover. 
Hooter, Eccles. Polity, vil. 8. 
3. A proposer; one who submits a proposition 
or recommends anything for consideration or 
adoption: as, the mover of a resolution in a 
legislative body. 
Attempts were made by different members to point out 
the absence from the resolution of any specific or tangible 
charge, or to extract from the mover some declaration that 
he had been informed or believed that the President had 
been guilty of some official misconduct, 
O. T. Curtis, Buchanan, II. 248. 
4. One whose business is to move furniture 
and other household goods, as from one place of 
residence to another. [Colloq.] First mover, 
(a) The primnm mobile ; that formerly supposed sphere 
of the heavens which carries all the others, and in which 
are fixed the fixed stars. 
Do therefore as the planets do : move always and be car- 
ried with the motion of your Jtrgt mover, which Is your 
sovereign ; a popular judge is a deformed thing. 
Bacon, Charge to the Judges in the Star-chamber. 
(6) The first cause. Prime mover. See prime. 
moveresst (m6'ver-es), . [ME. moveresse; < 
mover + -ess.] A female mover; a stirrer of 
debate and strife. 
Amyddes saugh I Hate stonde, 
That for hir wrathe, yre, and onde, 
Semede to ben a moveresse. 
Rom. of the Rote, 1. 149. 
moving (mS'ving), p. a. 1. Causing to move 
or act; impelling; instigating; persuading; 
influencing: as, the moving cause of a dispute. 
2. Exciting the feelings, especially the ten- 
der feelings ; touching ; pathetic ; affecting. 
Have I a moving countenance ? is there harmony In my 
voice? Ford, Love's sacrifice ii. 2. 
1 played a soft and doleful air, 
I sung an old and moving story. 
Coleridge, Love. 
Action of a moving system. See action. Moving fil- 
lister. See fillister. Moving force, in meeh. See mo- 
mentum. 
moving (mo'viug), . [< IDE. MewyM; verbal 
n. of move, r.] Movement ; motion ; impulse. 
Firste moevyng is cleped inoeeyng of the flrste moevable 
of the eighte spore, which moenyng is fro est to west. 
Chaucer, Astrolabe, L 17. 
How many kinds of motion or moving be there? Six : 
that is to say. Generation, Corruption, Augmentation, 
Diminution, Alteration, and Hiring from place to place. 
Wuntlrcillt, Arte of Logicke, I. xxit 
movingly (mo'ving-li), atlr. In a moving man- 
ner ; in a manner to excite the feelings, espe- 
cially the tender feelings ; pathetically. 
movingness (mo'viug-nes), n. The power of 
moving ; the quality of exciting the feelings, 
especially the tender feelings ; affectingness. 
There is a strange mtmngnett ... to be found in some 
pus&igcsof the Scripture. 
Boyle, Style of Holy Scripture, p. 242. 
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moving-plant (mO'ving-plant), n. An East 
Indian plant, IJc.i/iiiiiliuiii i/yrans. Also called 
li-li-i/ rn /ih -plant. 
mOW 1 (mo), ('.; prel. mmi-nl, pp. initiml or 
moicn, ppr. iHoir'nuj. [Sc. niinr; < ME. iiuncm, 
mawen (pret. innr), < AS. ninirini i prcl . mi dir) = 
( )Fries. mijii = D. maaijcn = ML< i . mi n n, mi 11/1 n, 
mi-ill n. L<;. HUlirii, Illl it'll = <)H(i. HIII/IIII, Iliniiii, 
Illiill, MM<i. niiijili. IHIII/III, mill-in, <i. niiiliin = 
Sw. meja = Dan. meie (s G. f), reap; not record- 
ed in Goth.; cf. Icel. ma, blot out, wear out, 
destroy; < ^ nut, me, seen also in Gr. (with a- 
copulative)a//dv,reap,4yu)?rof, a reaping, harvest, 
and in L. (with formative -t) mctere, reap; cf. 
Ir. meithle, reaping, reapers. Hence ult. im-iiil- 
ow, mead 2 .} I. trans. I. To cut down (grass 
or grain) with a sharp implement; cut with a 
scythe or (in recent use) a mowing-machine; 
hence, to cut down in general. 
He has got somebody's old two-hand sword, to moic yon 
off at the knees. 11. Jonson, EpUxene, iv. 2, 
The many-leaved locks 
Of thriving Charvel, which the bleating nocks 
Can with their daily hunger hardly mmce 
So much as dally doth still newly growe. 
Sylvester, it. of Du Bartas's Weeks, it, The Lawe. 
2. To cut the grass from : as, to mow a meadow. 
3. To cut down indiscriminately, or in great 
numbers or quantity. 
He will maw all down before him, and leave his passage 
polled. Static., Cor., Iv. 5. 214. 
II. intrans. To cut down grass or grain ; prac- 
tise mowing; use the scythe or (in modern use) 
mowing-machine. 
An 111 mower, that mowt on still, and never whets his 
scythe. Bacon, Advancement of Learning, L 96. 
mow 2 (mou), n. [< ME. movie, muge, < AS. 
IHIII/II, m n liii, a heap or pile of hay, mow, = Icel. 
mugr, mugi, a swath, a crowd (lit. a heap), = 
Norw. IHIII/II, mua, mue = Sw. dial, muga, muva, 
a heap, esp. of hay ; akin to muck 1 , q. v. Cf. 
ML. muga, mu</ium,amow (< AS.).] 1. Aheap 
or pile of hay, or of sheaves of grain, deposited 
in a barn ; also, in the west of England, a rick 
or stack of hay or grain. 
O, pleasantly the harvest moon, 
Between the shadow of the mowt, 
Looked on them through the great elm-boughs ! 
Whittier, Witch's Daughter. 
2. The compartment in a barn where hay, 
sheaves of grain, etc., are stored. 
mow 2 (mou), v. t. [< wiow; 2 , .] To put in a 
mow; lay, as hay or sheaves of grain, in a pile, 
heap, or mass in a bam : commonly with away. 
mow 3 t, [ME. mowe, mowen, inf. and pres. 
ind. plural of may 1 : see may 1 . Cf. wioun 1 .] 
To be able; may. See may 1 . 
For who Is that ne wold hire glorifle 
To mowen swich a knyght don lyve or dye ? 
Chaucer, Trollns, II. 1594. 
But that may not be upon lesse than wee mowe falle 
toward Hevene, fro the Erthe, where wee ben. 
MandeviUe, Travels, p. 184. 
mow 4 !, . [ME., also mowe, moge, mage, < AS. 
nueg, mtege, a kinswoman: see way 3 .] A kins- 
woman ; a sister-in-law. Prompt. Pan. 
mow 5 (mo), n. [Formerly also moe; < ME. 
mow, mowe, < OF. moue, moe, F. moue, a gri- 
mace, < MD. mouice, the protruded under lip in 
making a wry face.] 1. A grimace, especially 
an insulting one ; a mock. 
Of the buffettes that men gaven hym fChrlst], of the 
foule mowes and of the reproves that men to hym seyden. 
Chaucer, Parson's Tale. 
Each one, tripping on his toe, 
Will be here with mop and mow. 
Shale., Tempest, Iv. 1. 47. 
And other-whiles with bitter mockes and moves 
He would him scorne. Spemer, V. <J., VI. vii. 49. 
2f. A jest ; a joke : commonly in the plural. 
And whan a wight is from her whiel ythrow, 
Than laugheth she [Fortune] and maketh him the mowe. 
Chaucer, Troilus, IT. 7. 
Yett was our meeting meek eneugh, 
Begun wi' merriment and movxt. 
Raid of the Reidtwire (Child's Ballads, VI. 133). 
The men could weill thair wapoues weild ; 
To melt them was no mowe*. 
Battle of Balrinnet (Child's Ballads, VII. 224). 
Nae mowes, no joke, f Scotch.) 
mow 5 (mo), r. i. [Formerly also moire; < ME. 
mowen ; < mou*, .] To make mouths or gri- 
maces; mock. Compare mop 1 . 
Summe at me inoiris. somme at me smylis. 
Political Poems, etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 186. 
Sometime like apes that mote and chatter at me, 
And after bite me. Shot., Tempest, it 2. 9. 
mow 6 (mou or mo), H. A Chinese land-measure, 
equal to about one sixth of an English acre. 
Also spelled mou. 
moya 
mowburn (mou'bern), r. /. To heat and fer- 
iiient in the mow through being placed there 
before being properly cured: said of hay or 
grain. Not only the straw, but the seed or kernel is in- 
jured by mow bin niuK this greatly impairing the nutri- 
tive value of hay or grain, and unfitting grain* for malting. 
mower 1 (ino'er), H. [< MK. HIIIII-III, miiiiii. 
A!S. 'niiiifi rc,<. HII/, mow: see mow 1 and -er 1 .'} 
1. One who mows. 
And the milkmaid slngeth blithe, 
And the mower whets his slthe. 
Milt*,,,, L' Allegro, 1. 86. 
2. A mowing-machine. Front-cut mower, a mow- 
ing-machine In which the cutting mechanism is In front, 
and the team or power which Impels It Is behind. Except 
for clover-headers and lawn-mowers, this arrangement has 
not been much used In modern machines. Also called 
prvpfUer-mowvr. 
mower 2 (mo'er), n. [< mow& + -er 1 .] One who 
mows, mocks, or makes grimaces. 
mowing 1 (mo'ing), n. [Verbal n. of mow 1 , r.] 
1 . The act of cutting with a scythe. 2. Land 
from which the crop is cut. 
"And be off lying in the mowiny, like a patrldge, when 
they come after ye. That's one way to do business," said 
Hepsy. //. B. Stowe, Oldtown, p. 87. 
mowing 2 (mou'ing), n. [Verbal n. of ioa> 2 , r.] 
The process of placing or storing hay or grain 
in a mow. 
mowing 3 t, [Verbal n. of morcS, p.] Ability. 
It Is opin and cler that the power ne the nunmnge at 
shrewes uis no power. Chaucer, Boethlus, Iv. prose 2. 
mowing 4 (mo'ing), n. [< ME. mowynge; verbal 
n. of mow&, r.] Grimacing; mocking. 
mowing-machine (mo'ing-ma-shen'), n. A 
machine for mowing grass. 'The terms mowing- 
machine, harvester, and reaper are In a measure inter- 
changeable. While essentially the same machine, the 
mowing-machine or mower Is used for cutting grass and 
clover, and the reaper for cutting grain. Both mowers 
and reapers, more properly the latter, are harvesters. 
The mowing-machine is essentially a vehicle fitted with 
some form of gearing for transmitting the motion of 
the axle to a set of reciprocating knives. An arm pro- 
jects from the vehicle and carries a series of points or Hn- 
ger-like guards, in and between which play a series of 
lance-shaped knives. This bar is made to travel close to 
the ground while the shearing action of the row of recip- 
rocating knives between the guards mows down the grass. 
A track-clearer or wing at the end of the bar guides the cut 
grass toward the machine, so that a clear track will be 
formed for the tread-wheel at the next passage of the 
mower in the field. Mowers have one driving-wheel or 
two, and either a fixed and rigid cutter-bar or, more often, 
a bar hinged so that it can be turned up out of the way 
when not in use for mowing. 
mowl, n. A dialectal form of moltft. 
mow-land (mo 'land), n. [< mow 1 + land 1 ."} 
Grass-land; meadow-land. [New Eng.] 
mowlet, c. A Middle English form of mW 2 . 
mowledt, mowldet, ;. . Middle English forms 
of molef. 
mow-lot (mo'lot), n. A piece of ground or a 
field in which grass is grown. [Local.] 
I kept him [a coltj here In the iiiim--li't. 
S. Judd, Margaret, II. 7. 
mown 1 . A past participle of mow 1 . 
mown 2 t, v. i. Same as mown 2 . 
mowntauet, n. A Middle English form of mouii- 
i n in. 
mowret, . A Middle English variant of mire 2 . 
mowset, n. An obsolete spelling of mouse. 
mowthet, " A Middle English form of mouth. 
mow-yard (niou'yard), M. [< mtr2 + yard?.] 
A rickyard; a stackyard. 
We've been reaping all the day, and well reap again the 
morn. 
And fetch it home to mow-yard, and then well thank the 
Lord. 
/{. D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone, xxlx. , Exmoor Harvest- 
[Song. 
mowyer (mo'yer), n. [< mow 1 + -yer.~\ If. 
One who mows; a mower. 2. The long-billed 
or sickle-billed curlew, Xumenius longirostriy. 
G. Trumbutt. See cut under curlew. [Cape 
May, New Jersey.] 
moxa (mok'sa), n. [Chin, and Jap.] 1. A soft 
downy substance prepared in China and Japan 
from the young leaves of Artemisia Moia, used 
as a cautery. 2. The plant from which this 
substance is obtained. 3. In med., a vegetable 
substance, either cut or formed into a short 
cylinder, which when ignited will burn without 
fusing, used as a cautery or a counter-irritant 
bv being applied to the skin. Galvanic moxa 
platinum rendered incandescent by a galvanic current, and 
used as a moxa. 
moxibustion (mok-si-bus'chon), . [< mom 
+ (ci>i)liustiini.'] Iii med., the act or process 
of burning or cauterizing by means of moxa or 
a moxa. 
moya (moi'a), . [S. Amer.] Mud poured 
out from a volcano during the time of an erup- 
tion. The name Is a local one, and was originally given 
