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mote noun [ məʊt ]

• a tiny piece of a substance; a speck.
• "the tiniest mote of dust"
Similar: speck, particle, grain, spot, fleck, atom, scintilla, mite,
Opposite: beam,
Origin: Old English mot, related to Dutch mot ‘dust, sawdust’.

a mote in someone's eye

• a minor fault in a person observed by someone who ignores a greater fault in themselves.
"before the Minister takes the mote out of Europe's eye, should not he take the beam out of his own?"

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