To move; to make a motion; as, 'I motion that the resolution pass.' An old English word rarely used, because unnecessary.
I want friends to motion such a matter.--Burton, Anat. Melancholy.
·noun A puppet show or puppet. II. Motion ·noun Power of, or capacity for, motion. III. Motion ·vi...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Change of place; it is termed direct, in the sky, when it is in the direction of the earth's annual ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·noun The motion of electricity or its passage from one metal to another in a voltaic circuit; mecha...
·noun Motion excited by reflex nerves. ·see Excito-motory. ...
·noun An ideo-motor movement. ...
·- A valve gear, consisting of two eccentrics with their rods, giving motion to a slide valve by an ...
·add. ·- A moving picture. ...
·noun Motion given by inherent power, without external impulse; spontaneus or voluntary motion. ...
is that which describes an angle, or moves circularly round a point, as planets revolving about the ...
The motion of celestial bodies as viewed from the earth. ...
See motion. ...
The march or movement of any heavenly body in the space of an hour. ...
The rate at which a body moving in an elliptic orbit would proceed at an equal velocity throughout. ...
A term applied to the descending parabolic curve of a shot or shell in falling. ...
See motion (centre of). ...
That point of a body which remains at rest whilst all the other parts are in motion about it: as the...
A movement which some stars are found to possess, independent of the apparent change of place due to...
An intervening lever for guiding the side-rods of a steam-engine. ...