Motion, mo'shen, n. the act, state manner, of changing place; a single movement; change of posture; power of moving or being moved; agitation; a natural impulse; a working in the mind; a feeling; an emotion; a prompting; an instigation; a formal proposal put before a meeting; an application to a court, during a case before it, for an order or rule that something be done, esp. something incidental to the progress of the cause rather than its issue; a piece of mechanism; (mus.) progression of a part; (obs.) a puppet show; (Shak.) a puppet.