The quality or state of being modal.
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In a modal manner.
Manner of doing or being; method; form; fashion; custom; way; style; as, the mode of speaking; the mode of dressing.
To make a copy or a pattern; to design or imitate forms; as, to model in wax.
resembling sculpture; as, her finely modeled features.
One who models; hence, a worker in plastic art.
The act or art of making a model from which a work of art is to be executed; the formation of a work of art from some plastic material. Also, in painting, drawing, etc., the expression or indication of solid form.
To model.
An electronic device that converts electronic signals into sound waves, and sound waves into electronic signals, used to transmit information between computers by the use of ordinary telephone lines; also called modulator-demodulator; as, the latest modems can transmit data at 56,000 baud over a clear telephone line. The speed of transmission of information by a modem is usually measured in units of baud, equivalent to bits per second.
A certain crimsonlike color.
Of or pertaining to Modena or its inhabitants. A native or inhabitant of Modena; the people of Modena.
To moderate.
Moderate; temperate.
Moderation.
To become less violent, severe, rigorous, or intense; as, the wind has moderated.
having elements or qualities mixed in proper or suitable proportions; especially, made less severe. Contrasted with harsh.
In a moderate manner or degree; to a moderate extent.
The quality or state of being moderate; temperateness; moderation.
lessening in intensity or strength. Opposite of intensifying.
The act of moderating, or of imposing due restraint.
Moderation in doctrines or opinion, especially in politics or religion.
With a moderate degree of quickness; moderately.
One who, or that which, moderates, restrains, or pacifies.
The office of a moderator.
A female moderator.
A female moderator.
A person of modern times; -- opposed to ancient.
Modernization.
Modern practice; a thing of recent date; esp., a modern usage or mode of expression.
One who admires the moderns, or their ways and fashions.
Conspicuously (sometimes outrageously) modern in style or appearance; as, shiny tables in modernistic design.
Modernness; something modern.
The act of rendering modern in style; the act or process of causing to conform to modern of thinking or acting.
To render modern; to adapt to modern person or things; to cause to conform to recent or present usage or taste.
One who modernizes.
In modern times.
The quality or state of being modern; recentness; novelty.
Restraining within due limits of propriety; not forward, bold, boastful, or presumptious; rather retiring than pushing one's self forward; not obstructive; as, a modest youth; a modest man.
In a modest manner.
The quality or state of being modest; that lowly temper which accompanies a moderate estimate of one's own worth and importance; absence of self-assertion, arrogance, and presumption; humility respecting one's own merit.
Moderateness; smallness; meanness.
A little; a small quantity; a measured supply.
Capability of being modified; state or quality of being modifiable.
Capable of being modified; liable to modification.
Modifiable.
To qualify.
The act of modifying, or the state of being modified; a change; as, the modification of an opinion, or of a machine.
That which modifies or qualifies, as a word or clause.
Tending or serving to modify; modifying.
One who, or that which, modifies.
To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to change a part of something while leaving most parts unchanged; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms of a contract.
The enriched block or horizontal bracket generally found under the cornice of the Corinthian and Composite entablature, and sometimes, less ornamented, in the Ionic and other orders; -- so called because of its arrangement at regulated distances.
Shaped like a bushel measure.
The central column in the osseous cochlea of the ear.
According to the mode, or customary manner; conformed to the fashion; fashionable; hence, conventional; as, a modish dress; a modish feast.
One who follows the fashion.
One, esp. a woman, who makes, or deals in, articles of fashion, esp. of the fashionable dress of ladies; a dress-maker or milliner.
A dry measure, containing about a peck.
A tribe of warlike Indians formerly inhabiting Northern California. They are nearly extinct.
Of or pertaining to mode, modulation, module, or modius; as, modular arrangement; modular accent; modular measure.
To pass from one key into another.
Having either amplitude, intensity, frequency, or phase altered at intervals to represent information to be transmitted; -- of the carrier wave of a radio signal transmitted from one device to another for the purpose of conveying information. Opposite of unmodulated.
The act of modulating, or the state of being modulated; as, the modulation of the voice.
One who, or that which, modulates.
An electronic device that converts electronic signals into sound waves, and sound waves into electronic signals, used to transmit information between computers by the use of ordinary telephone lines; usually called a modem.
To model; also, to modulate.
A quantity or coefficient, or constant, which expresses the measure of some specified force, property, or quality, as of elasticity, strength, efficiency, etc.; a parameter.
The arrangement of, or mode of expressing, the terms of a contract or conveyance.
Fashionable.
More. See Mo.
Movables; furniture; -- also used in the singular (moeble).
An unguent for the hair.
Rubble masonry.
The language of the Moesogoths; -- also called Gothic.
To move.
A thin silk stuff made in Caucasia.
To move away; to go off.
A hexagram{1a}, when used as the symbol of Judaism; called also Magen David and Star of David. It is included on the flag of the state of Israel
A closely fitting knit sleeve; also, a legging of knitted material.
an alternate from of mogul.
A person of the Mongolian race.
The empire created in India by invading Mongolians (Tatars), established under Baber, who conquered Hindustan in 1526. The established religion of the empire was Islam. After the death of the Great Mogul Aurung-Zeb in 1707, power passed to the Mahrattas and the British. The empire existed only nominally in the early 1800's, and was finally abolished in 1857 by the deposing of the last emperor.
Of or pertaining to the Moguls{2}; as, The Taj Mahal, the most beautiful piece of Mogul architecture, was built by the Mogul emperor Shah Jehan as a mausoleum for his favorite wife.
A kind of millet (Setaria Italica); German millet.
The long silky hair or wool of the Angora goat of Asia Minor; also, a fabric made from this material, or an imitation of such fabric.
The prophet who founded Islam (570-632).
A follower of Mohammed, the founder of Islam (also called Islamism or Mohammedanism); an adherent of Islam; one who professes Islam; a Muslim; a Moslem; a Musselman; -- this term is used mostly by non-Moslems, and some Moslems find it offensive.
The era in use in Moslem countries. See Mohammedan year, below.
The year used by Muslims, consisting of twelve lunar months without intercalation, so that they retrograde through all the seasons in about 32/ years. The Mohammedan era begins with the year 622 a. d., the first day of the Mohammedan year 1332 being Nov. 30, 1913, according to the Gregorian calendar.
The religion, or doctrines and precepts, of Mohammed, contained in the Koran; Islamism; Islam. The term Islam is preferred by most Moslems, and some find the term Mohammedanism to be offensive, as they worship Allah, not Mohammed.
To make conformable to the principles, or customs and rites, of Islam.
One of a tribe of Indians who formed part of the Five Nations. They formerly inhabited the valley of the Mohawk River.
A tribe of Lenni-Lenape Indians who formerly inhabited Western Connecticut and Eastern New York.
The boundary between the earth's crust and the semiliquid mantle beneath. It varies in depth from 3 miles beneath the surface at certain points in the ocean to over 25 miles under certain parts of continents.
See Mohawk.
See Maholi.
same as 2nd Moho.
A West African gazelle (Gazella mohr), having horns on which are eleven or twelve very prominent rings. It is one of the species which produce bezoar.
A British Indian gold coin, of the value of fifteen silver rupees, or $7.21 (in 1913).
To toil.
A gold coin of Portugal, valued at about 27s. sterling.
One of two equal parts; a half; as, a moiety of an estate, of goods, or of profits; the moiety of a jury, or of a nation.
A spot; a defilement.
A kind of high shoe anciently worn.
A small flat bastion, raised in the middle of an overlong curtain.
The deity who assigns to every man his lot.
To give a watered or clouded appearance to (a surface).
To moisten.
To make damp; to wet in a small degree.
One who, or that which, moistens.
Full of moisture.
Without moisture; dry.
The quality or state of being moist.
A moderate degree of wetness.
Without moisture.
Moist.
To toil; to labor.
Any of certain basslike marine fishes (mostly of tropical seas, and having a deep, compressed body, protracile mouth, and large silvery scales) constituting the family Gerridae, as Gerres plumieri, found from Florida to Brazil and used as food. Also, any of numerous other fishes of similar appearance but belonging to other families.
A handkerchief.
A mesh of a net, or of anything resembling a net.
Misty; dark; murky; muggy.
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