Moot: Definition and part of speech

Moot

  1. n. A ring for gauging wooden pins.
  2. v. See 1st Mot.
  3. v. t. Specifically: To discuss by way of exercise; to argue for practice; to propound and discuss in a mock court.
  4. v. i. To argue or plead in a supposed case.
  5. n. 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.
  6. v. A discussion or debate; especially, a discussion of fictitious causes by way of practice.
  7. The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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