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Mole
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) A mound or massive work formed of masonry or large stones, etc., laid in the sea, often extended either in a right line or an arc of a circle before a port which it serves to defend from the violence of the waves, thus protecting ships in a harbor; also, sometimes, the harbor itself.
(2):
(n.) A spot; a stain; a mark which discolors or disfigures.
(3):
(n.) A spot, mark, or small permanent protuberance on the human body; esp., a spot which is dark-colored, from which commonly issue one or more hairs.
(4):
(n.) A mass of fleshy or other more or less solid matter generated in the uterus.
(5):
(n.) Any insectivore of the family Talpidae. They have minute eyes and ears, soft fur, and very large and strong fore feet.
(6):
(n.) A plow of peculiar construction, for forming underground drains.
(7):
(v. t.) To form holes in, as a mole; to burrow; to excavate; as, to mole the earth.
(8):
(v. t.) To clear of molehills.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Mole'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/m/mole.html. 1828.
