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Economic, economical: attention, en anglais d'aujourd'hui, les deux adjectifs correspondent à deux acceptions différentes. Le premier, economic, renvoie à tout ce qui relève de l'économie en général, de la science économique, de la politique économique, de l'économie politique, de l'analyse économique, etc. Le second, economical, renvoie à tout ce qui permet de faire des économies. Mais au temps de Morris, seul existe ce second adjectif qui couvre les deux acceptions.

Mote. Selon le Webster de 1903:

Mote, n. [See MOOT, a meeting] [Obs., except in a few combinations or phrases.] 1. A meeting of persons for discussion; as, a wardmote in the city of London. 2. A body of persons who meet for discussion, esp. about the management of affairs; as, a folkmote. 3. A place of meeting for discussion. Mote bell, the bell rung to summon to a mote. [Obs.]

Town criers with their mote-bells.
Left, a painting by Robert Mendham in 1822. Right, a photograph during a town-criers' competition in the 1920s

Moot, v.t. [imp. & p.p. Mooted; p. pr. & vb. n. Mooting] [OE. moten, motien, AS. motian to meet or assemble for conversation, to discuss, dispute, fr. mot, gemot, a meeting, an assembly; akin to Icel. mot, MHG muoz. Cf. MEET to come together.] 1. To argue for and against; to debate; to discuss; to propose for discussion. "A problem which hardly has been mentioned, much less mooted, in this country." Sir W. Hamilton. 2. Specifically: To discuss by way of exercise; to argue for practice; to propound and discuss in a mock court. "First a case is appointed to be mooted by certain young men, containing some doubtful controversy." Sir T. Elyot.

Moot, v.i. To argue or plead in a supposed case. "There is a difference between mooting and pleading; between fencing and fighting." B. Johnson.

Moot, n. [AS. mot, gemot, a meeting; -- usually in comp.] [Written also mote] 1. A meeting for discussion and deliberation; esp. a meeting of the people of a village or district, in Anglo-Saxon times, for the discussion and settlement of matters of common interest; -- usually in composition; as, folk-moot. J.R. Green. 2. [From Moot, v.] A discussion or debate; especially, a discussion of fictitious causes by way of practice. "The pleading used in courts and chancery called moots." Sir T. Elyot. Moot case, a case or question to be mooted; a disputable case; an unsettled question. Dryden. -- Moot court, a mock court, such as held by students of law for practicing the conduct of law cases. -- Moot point, a point or question to be debated; a doubtful question.

Moot, a. Subject, or open, to argument or discussion; undecided; debatable; mooted. Locke.

In my experience: a moot-court is held in an especially arranged room called "a moot-room" in polite, written English, but I have heard colleagues call it "a mote".

Tay: fleuve d'Ecosse dont l'estuaire s'étend de Perth à Dundee (Firth of Tay).

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