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(1):

(n.) A puppet show or puppet.

(2):

(n.) Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.

(3):

(n.) Power of, or capacity for, motion.

(4):

(n.) Direction of movement; course; tendency; as, the motion of the planets is from west to east.

(5):

(v. i.) To make proposal; to offer plans.

(6):

(v. t.) To direct or invite by a motion, as of the hand or head; as, to motion one to a seat.

(7):

(v. t.) To propose; to move.

(8):

(n.) The act, process, or state of changing place or position; movement; the passing of a body from one place or position to another, whether voluntary or involuntary; - opposed to rest.

(9):

(n.) Change in the relative position of the parts of anything; action of a machine with respect to the relative movement of its parts.

(10):

(n.) Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts.

(11):

(n.) A proposal or suggestion looking to action or progress; esp., a formal proposal made in a deliberative assembly; as, a motion to adjourn.

(12):

(n.) An application made to a court or judge orally in open court. Its object is to obtain an order or rule directing some act to be done in favor of the applicant.

(13):

(v. i.) To make a significant movement or gesture, as with the hand; as, to motion to one to take a seat.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Motion'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​m/motion.html. 1828.
 
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