Definition of mole:

• 1. Tinshemeth. ( Leviticus 11:30 ) It is probable that the animals mentioned with the tinshemeth in the above passage denote different kinds of lizards; perhaps, therefore, the chameleon is the animal intended. 2. Chephor peroth is rendered " moles" in ( Isaiah 2:20 ) ( The word means burrowers, hole-diggers, and may designate any of the small animals, as rats and weasels, which burrow among ruins. Many scholars, according to McClintock and Strongs " Cyclopedia," consider that the Greek aspalax is the animal intended by both the words translated mole. It is not the European mole, but is a kind of blind mole-rat, from 8 to 12 inches long, feeding on vegetables, and burrowing like a mole, but on a larger scale. It is very common in Russia, and Hasselquiest says it is abundant on the plains of Sharon in Palestine. -- ED.)
• Heb. tinshameth ( Leviticus 11:30 ), probably signifies some species of lizard ( rendered in RSV, " chameleon"). In Leviticus 11:18 , Deuteronomy 14:16 , it is rendered, in Authorized Version, " swan" ( RSV, " horned owl"). The Heb. holed ( Leviticus 11:29 ), rendered " weasel," was probably the mole-rat. The true mole ( Talpa Europoea) is not found in Palestine. The mole-rat ( Spalax typhlus) " is twice the size of our mole, with no external eyes, and with only faint traces within of the rudimentary organ; no apparent ears, but, like the mole, with great internal organs of hearing; a strong, bare snout, and with large gnawing teeth; its colour a pale slate; its feet short, and provided with strong nails; its tail only rudimentary." In Isaiah 2:20 , this word is the rendering of two words _haphar peroth_, which are rendered by Gesenius " into the digging of rats", i.e., rats' holes. But these two Hebrew words ought probably to be combined into one ( lahporperoth) and translated " to the moles", i.e., the rat-moles. This animal " lives in underground communities, making large subterranean chambers for its young and for storehouses, with many runs connected with them, and is decidedly partial to the loose debris among ruins and stone-heaps, where it can form its chambers with least trouble."
• To form holes in, as a mole; to burrow; to excavate; as, to mole the earth.
• To clear of molehills.
• a small congenital pigmented spot on the skin
• ( Mexican) spicy sauce often containing chocolate
• spicy sauce often containing chocolate
• the molecular weight of a substance expressed in grams; the basic unit of amount of substance adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites
• A spot; a stain; a mark which discolors or disfigures.
• 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.
• A mass of fleshy or other more or less solid matter generated in the uterus.
• 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.
• Any insectivore of the family Talpidae. They have minute eyes and ears, soft fur, and very large and strong fore feet.
• A plow of peculiar construction, for forming underground drains.
• A dark- colored mark or small lump on the skin; a small, soft- furred, burrowing animal with minute eyes, often covered with skin; a mound of large stones, etc., laid in the sea before a port to defend it from the force of the waves.
• Small circumscribed brownish elevation. Morbid uterine growth without shape.
• A permanent dark- brown spot or mark on the human skin.
• A small animal with very small eyes and soft fur, which burrows in the ground and casts up little heaps of mould.
• A breakwater.
• A large breakwater; small burrowing quadruped; natural mark on the body.
• A small spot on the skin; a stain or spot.
• A small, burrowing mammal.
• A jetty or breakwater.
• A small dark- brown protuberant spot on the human body.
• A mound of large stones laid in the sea before a port for protection.
• A small, soft- furred animal which burrows beneath the ground.
• A spot or permanent mark on some part of the human skin.
• A massive work of stones formed in the sea to protect a harbour from the violence of the waves; a huge shapeless mass.
• A small animal which burrows in the ground and throws up mould or earth.
• In med., a mass of fleshy matter generated in the uterus.

Usage examples for mole

1. La Mole opened his eyes.  Marguerite de Valois by Alexandre Dumas

2. But how did he know that in trying to dig out a mole he would be doing more harm than good?  Carolyn of the Corners by Ruth Belmore Endicott

3. She was standing at the foot of a tree in the twilight, listening to a quarrel between a mole and a squirrel, in which the mole told the squirrel that the tail was the best of him, and the squirrel called the mole Spade- fists, when, the darkness having deepened around her, she became aware of something shining in her face, and looking round, saw that the door of the cottage was open, and the red light of the fire flowing from it like a river through the darkness.  The Light Princess and Other Fairy Stories by George MacDonald