103 M O T 
fician, author of the New Medical Dictionary, folio. He 
was born in the year 1731, and died in 1793. 
MOTHER HO OD, f. The office or charafter of a 
mother: 
Thou ffialt fee the bleffied mother-maid 
Exalted more for being good 
Than for her intereft of motherhood. Donne. 
MOTHERING, adj. To go a mothering, is to vifit 
parents on Midlent Sunday; a cuftom derived, as Cowed 
informs us, from perfons, in the times of popery, vifiting 
their mother-church on that day, and making their offer¬ 
ings at the high altar. The cuftom is yet retained in 
fome places, and is alfo known by the name of midlcuti-ng. 
I'll to thee a fimnell bring, 
'Gainft thou go’ll a mothering; 
So that, when Ihe bleffeth thee, 
Half that bleffing thou’lt give nie. Herrick's Iltj’perides. 
MQTITERING SUN'DAY. Midlent Sunday. 
MOTHERLESS, adj. Deftitute of a mother; orphan 
of a mother.—I might lhew you my children, whom the 
rigour of your jufticc would make complete orphans, 
being already mothcrhfs. Waller's Sp. to the II. of Commons. 
MOTH'ERLINESS, f. The Hate of being motherly; 
fuitablenefs to a mother. 
MOTHERLY, adj. Belonging to a mother; fuitable 
to a mother.—They can owe no lels than child-like obe¬ 
dience to her that hath more than motherly power. Hooker. 
■—When I fee the motherly airs of my little daughters 
when playing with their puppets, I cannot but flatter 
myfelf that their hulbands and children will be happy in 
the pofl’effion of fuch wives and mothers. Addifoil's Sped. 
Within her breall though calm, her breaft though pure. 
Motherly cares and fears got head, and rais’d 
Some troubled thoughts. Milton's P. It. 
MOTHERLY, adv. In manner of a mother: 
Th’ air doth not motherly fit on the earth, 
To hatch her feafons, and give all things birth. Donne. 
MOTHERY, adj. Concreted; full of concretions; 
dreggy; feculent: ufed of liquors. 
MOTH'Y, adj. Full of moths.—His horfe hipp’d with 
an old nwthy laddie, the llirrups of no kindred. Shahe- 
fpcare's Taming of the Shrew. 
MO'TI, a town of Perfia, in the province of Segeftan : 
fixty miles north of Zareng. 
MO'TI, a town of the iiland of Sardinia: twenty-feven 
miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Saflari. Lat.40.42.N. Ion. 9. 20. E. 
MOTI'ERS, a town of Swiflerland, in the principality 
of Neufchatel, the feat of a court of juftice: thirteen miles 
fouth-wefc of Neufchatel. 
MOTIKLE'I, a gulf of Ruffia, in the fea of Ochotlkoi, 
between cape Duginlkoi and the continent ; about forty 
miles long, and from twelve to fixteen broad. Lat. 59. 
20. to 59. 36. N. Ion. 147. 34. to 149. 14. E. 
MO'TIN, a town of Mexico, in the province of Me- 
ehoacan, fituated at the foot of a mountain : fifty miles 
caft-fouth-eaft of Colima. 
MO'TION, J. [Fr. from motio, Lat.] The aft of chang¬ 
ing place: oppofed to reft: 
Immediate are the afts of God, mode fwift 
Than time or motion. Milton. 
Animal life and aftion.—Devoid of fenfe and motion. Milt. 
The foul 
O’er minifterial members does prefide. 
To all their various provinces divide, 
Each member move, and every motion guide. Blachmore. 
Manner of moving the body; port; gait: 
Speaking or mute, all comelinefs and grace 
Attend thee, and each word, each motion, form. Milton. 
Change of poftune; aftion.—By quick inltinftive motion 
up I lprung. Milton. 
M O T 
Encourag’d thus, ffie brought her younglings nigh, 
Watching the motions of her patron’s eye. 
Dryden 1 
Military march, or remove: 
See the guards, 
By me encamp’d on yonder hill, expeft 
Ti'.eir motion. 
Milton. 
Agitation ; inteftine'aftion : 
My womb 
Prodigious motion felt, and rueful throes. 
Milton. 
Ceafe, ceafe, thou foaming ocean. 
For what’s thy troubled motion 
To that within my breaft ? 
Gay. 
Direction ; tendency.—In our proper motion we afeend. 
Milton.- —Impulle communicated.—Whether that motion, 
vitality, and operation, were by incubation, or how elle, 
the manner is only known to God. Raleigh. 
I.ove wakes the fleepy vigour of the foul, 
And brufhing o’er adds motion to the pool. Dryden. 
Tendency of the mind ; thought imprefled.—Let a good 
man obey every good motion riling in his heart, knowing 
that every fuch motion proceeds from God. South. —Pro- 
pofal made.—Your father and my uncle have made mo¬ 
tions; if it be my luck, fo; if not, happy man be his 
dole. Shnhcfpeure. —Yes, I agree, and thank you for your 
motion. Shahefveare. —[In old language.] A puppet-lhow. 
—He compared a motion of the Prodigal Son, and married 
a tinker’s wife, within a mile where my land and living 
lies. Shahefpearc »—I would dance at may-poles, and make 
fyllabubs; as a country-gentlewoman, keep a good houfe, 
and come up to town to fee motions. B. Jonjon's Cynthia's 
Revels. —A puppet; an infignificant perlbn : 
If he be that motion that you tell me of, 
And make no more noife, I fhall entertain him. RuIeaWife. 
Motion, in law, an occafional application to a court 
of law or equity, by the parties or their counfel, in order 
to obtain fome rule or order of court, which becomes ne- 
ceffary in the progrefs of a eaufe. 3 Comm. 304. 
A motion is either for a rule ahjplute in the firft inftance, 
which is fometimes moved for in open court; and fome- 
times merely drawn up on a motion-paper figned by 
counfel, and delivered to the clerk of the rules; or it is 
only a rule to Jhew eaufe, or, as it is commonly called, 
a rule niji, i. e. unity's eaufe be fhewn to the contrary, 
which is afterwards moved to be made abfolute. 
Motions are of a civil or criminal nature. Of the latter 
kind is the motion for an attachment, which may be moved 
for on account of contemptuous words Ipoken of the 
court, or its procels; for a refeue, or difobedience to a 
fubpoena, or other procefs; againft a ffieriff, for not re¬ 
turning the writ, or bringing in the body; againft an at¬ 
torney, for not performing his undertaking, or othenvife 
mifbehaving himfelf; againft other perfons for non-pay¬ 
ment of coils, on the mailer's allocatur; for the non-pay¬ 
ment of money generally, or not performing an award. 
See. An attachment for mifbehaviour is commonly pre¬ 
ceded by a motion for a rule to ani’wer the matters of the 
affidavit; and the party, being taken on the attachment, 
either remains in cuftody or puts in bail before a judge, 
(for he is not bailable before the ffieriff,) to anfwer inter¬ 
rogatories to be exhibited againft him. 
Motions of a civil nature are made on behalf of the 
plaintiff or of the defendant. On behalf of the plaintiff, 
they are either, 1. For l’omething to be done in the com¬ 
mon and ordinary courle of the iuit, as to increafe ifi'ues, 
for a concilium, or judgment on demurrer, fpecial verdift, 
or writ of error; for leave to enter up judgment on an 
old warrant of attorney, or nunc pro tunc, to enter up 
judgment and take out execution after an award, where 
a verdift has been taken for the plaintiff’s 1'ecurity, or 
after a verdift for the plaintiff againft one of feverai un¬ 
derwriters, where the reft: have agreed to be bound by 
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