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Definition of Mole
| n. | 1. | A spot; a stain; a mark which discolors or disfigures. | | 2. | 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. | | 1. | A mass of fleshy or other more or less solid matter generated in the uterus. | | 1. | 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. | | 1. | (Zool.) Any insectivore of the family Talpidæ. They have minute eyes and ears, soft fur, and very large and strong fore feet. | | 2. | A plow of peculiar construction, for forming underground drains. | | 3. | A spy who lives for years an apparently normal life (to establish a cover) before beginning his spying activities. | | 1. | A quantity of a substance equal to the molecular weight of a substance expressed in grams; a gram molecule; the basic unit of amount of substance adopted under the System International d'Unites; as, he added two moles of sodium chloride to the medium. | | v. t. | 1. | To form holes in, as a mole; to burrow; to excavate; as, to mole the earth. | | 2. | To clear of molehills. |
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