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.

mot (karphos): A minute piece of anything dry or light, as straw, chaff, a splinter of wood, that might enter the eye. Used by Jesus in Mt 7:3 ff; Lu 6:41 f in contrast with "beam," to rebuke officiousness in correcting small faults of others, while cherishing greater ones of our own.