Motty-Sun
Theappearancewhen sunbeams shine through an aperture and show atoms of dust floating.
📜 This word in 1898 dialectexpand
Theappearancewhen sunbeams shine through an aperture and show atoms of dust floating. See Mote, sb.1
Joseph Wright, English Dialect Dictionary (1898–1905)
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A ray of sunlight; especially, a visible, narrow, and intense (relative to ambient light) ray of sunlight (as revealed by, for example, its diffraction among dust particles).
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