Mote

Mote - (Easton's Bible Dictionary)

(Gr. karphos, something dry, hence a particle of wood or chaff, etc.). A slight moral defect is likened to a mote (Matt. 7:3-5; Luke 6:41, 42).

Mote - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

MOTE, in folkmote, _c. signifies a meeting.

MOTE, n. A small particle; any thing proverbially small; a spot.

Why beholdest thou the mote in thy brother's eye? Mat 7.

The little motes in the sun do ever stir, though there is no wind.

MOTE, for mought, might or must, obsolete.