Moth is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for MOTH in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a winged insect
• an insect with two pairs of broad wings covered in microscopic scales, typically drably coloured and held flat when at rest. Moths are chiefly nocturnal, and lack the clubbed antennae of butterflies.
• a clothes moth.
• nocturnal insect like a butterfly
• A mote.
• Any nocturnal lepidopterous insect, or any not included among the butterflies; as, the luna moth; Io moth; hawk moth.
• Any lepidopterous insect that feeds upon garments, grain, etc.; as, the clothes moth; grain moth; bee moth. See these terms under Clothes, Grain, etc.
• Any one of various other insects that destroy woolen and fur goods, etc., esp. the larvae of several species of beetles of the genera Dermestes and Anthrenus. Carpet moths are often the larvae of Anthrenus. See Carpet beetle, under Carpet, Dermestes, Anthrenus.
• Anything which gradually and silently eats, consumes, or wastes any other thing.
• typically crepuscular or nocturnal insect having a stout body and feathery or hairlike antennae

Words related to MOTH

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Words that contain MOTH

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How to use MOTH in a sentence

• Another Saturday he embedded himself, like a moth, in a bundle of old clothes.
• And make you bags, which wax not old, and treasure that faileth not in heaven, where no thief cometh, neither moth corrupteth.
• He stared speechless with amazement as the moth crept around a limb and clung to the under side.
• Freckles was whispering to himself for fear of disturbing the moth.
• Confound the moth! and Pawkins! However, it was a pity to lose the moth now.
• All night long his sleep was broken by dreams of the moth, Pawkins, and his landlady.
• The strange moth was still fluttering round his head.
• He was lying flat on his bed, and he began to run his eyes round the room to see if the moth was still about.
• The leopard moth requires two years to complete its round of life.
• One large moth, striped across the abdomen, and measuring nearly two inches in length of body, was found.
• He had come in force, and the whole as silent as a bat or moth.
• She went out of the house, she went out of the home as a moth flies out of a darkened room, and you know that unless you kindle a light to lure it back, it will never return.
• He proved that the eggs of diseased moths produced unhealthy worms, and he advised that the eggs of each moth be kept apart, until the moth was examined for germs.
• Her most moth eaten breadth was at the back and it was difficult to cross the room without unduly exposing that back.
• The moth is attracted to the candle, but the union produces misery and death to the unfortunate insect.
• It is the old story of the moth and the candle, and sometimes I laugh, and sometimes I am sorry for him.
• As Jerdon remarks, it looks more like a butterfly or a moth when disturbed during the day time.
• Because he is a wise and virtuous and honorable moth, he does not dart into the flame.
• Kaye was by far the most absorbed of the party, went and came like a great moth, was the first to disappear, and generally the last to arrive.
• She regained her feet in an instant, but she had lost sight of the moth.
• She could not tell the colour at that distance, but the moth appeared different from the others.
• But the moth bait recalled him and he was ready for work as they made their way back to the woods.
• The moth makes still larger the rent where the volleys passed.
• The wings of the moth on the floor began to quiver.
• The moth is not a native of this country, but of Germany and Austria, where vast sums of money have also been spent by the governments in a vain endeavor to get rid of it.
• He had brought some Gipsy moth eggs with him from Europe, and intended making some experiments with them.
• Every spring since then the Gipsy Moth Commission has been at work.
• And towards this the moth slowly drifted, as if the candles sucked her nearer and nearer, up between the pillars of the nave, on a level with their capitals.
• All that was left of the white moth lay on the altar-cloth, among the fruit at the base of the tallest candlestick.
• The moth is that which destroys wealth in garments, which was a great part of ancient Eastern wealth.

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