Significados de little mote en inglés

Why not settle down, and make the poor girl a little mote worthy of yourself?

He'd keep on ferreting in corners until he found that little mote of insight he was searching for.

Now he watches the little motes that play about in the sunbeam.

The heat whirred on, sending little motes of dust swirling around the room.

The little motes in their beams danced with the motes in the mist, troubled.

Yet we must not allow that humming noise to Anaxagoras's little motes, for it is neither probable nor necessary.

And then, suddenly, calm: we reach Mach 25, orbital speed, the engines wind down, and I notice little motes of dust floating lazily upward.