Moot

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·v ·see 1st Mot.

II. Moot ·- of Mot.

III. Moot ·noun A ring for gauging wooden pins.

IV. Moot ·vi To argue or plead in a supposed case.

V. Moot ·adj Subject, or open, to argument or discussion; undecided; debatable; mooted.

VI. Moot ·v A discussion or debate; especially, a discussion of fictitious causes by way of practice.

VII. Moot ·vt Specifically: To discuss by way of exercise; to argue for practice; to propound and discuss in a mock court.

VIII. Moot ·vt To argue for and against; to Debate; to Discuss; to propose for discussion.

IX. Moot ·noun 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.

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