adv. & a. [ F. à la mode after the fashion. ] According to the fashion or prevailing mode. “Alamode beef shops.” Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A thin, black silk for hoods, scarfs, etc.; -- often called simply mode. Buchanan. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Mus.) The modes or scales used in ancient church music. See Gregorian. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. commode, fr. commode convenient, L. commodus; com- + modus measure, mode. See Mode. ] 1. A kind of headdress formerly worn by ladies, raising the hair and fore part of the cap to a great height. [ 1913 Webster ]

Or under high commodes, with looks erect. Granville. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A piece of furniture, so named according to temporary fashion; as: (a) A chest of drawers or a bureau. (b) A night stand with a compartment for holding a chamber vessel. (c) A kind of close stool. (d) A movable sink or stand for a wash bowl, with closet. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Discommoded; p. pr. & vb. n. Discommoding. ] [ See Discommodate. ] To put inconvenience; to incommode; to trouble. [ R. ]

Syn. -- To incommode; annoy; inconvenience. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A genus of trees consisting of one species, the salt tree.
Syn. -- genus Halimodendron.
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a. [ Homo- + 1st deme, 2. ] (Biol.) A morphological term signifying development, in the case of multicellular organisms, from the same unit deme or unit of the inferior orders of individuality. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Biol.) Relating to homodermy; originating from the same germ layer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Homo- + -derm. ] (Biol.) Homology of the germinal layers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Immoderate. ] Immoderateness. [ R. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. immoderantia. ] Immoderateness; excess. [ R. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. immoderatus; pref. im- not + moderatus moderate. See Moderate. ] Not moderate; exceeding just or usual and suitable bounds; excessive; extravagant; unreasonable; as, immoderate demands; immoderate grief; immoderate laughter. [ 1913 Webster ]

So every scope by the immoderate use
Turns to restraint. Shak.

Syn. -- Excessive; exorbitant; unreasonable; extravagant; intemperate; inordinate. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an immoderate manner; excessively. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being immoderate; excess; extravagance. Puller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. immoderatio: cf. F. imodération. ] Lack of moderation. Hallywell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. immodeste, L. immodestus immoderate; pref. im- not + modestus modest. See Modest. ] 1. Not limited to due bounds; immoderate. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not modest; wanting in the reserve or restraint which decorum and decency require; indecent; indelicate; obscene; lewd; as, immodest persons, behavior, words, pictures, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Immodest deeds you hinder to be wrought,
But we proscribe the least immodest thought. Dryden.

Syn. -- Indecorous; indelicate; shameless; shameful; impudent; indecent; impure; unchaste; lewd; obscene. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an immodest manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. immodestia: cf. F. immodestie. ] Lack of modesty, delicacy, or decent reserve; indecency. “A piece of immodesty.” Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Incommoded; p. pr. & vb. n. Incommoding. ] [ F. incommoder, L. incommodare inconvenient; pref. in- not + commodus convenient. See Commodious. ] To give inconvenience or trouble to; to disturb or molest; to discommode; to worry; to put out; as, we are incommoded by lack of room.

Syn. -- To annoy; disturb; trouble; molest; disaccomodate; inconvenience; disquiet; vex; plague. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An inconvenience. [ R. ] Strype. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of incommoded. [ Obs. ] Cheyne. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Gr. &unr_; a mixing + E. Lydian. ] (Mus.) The seventh ecclesiastical mode, whose scale commences on G. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. modus a measure, due or proper measure, bound, manner, form; akin to E. mete: cf. F. mode. See Mete, and cf. Commodious, Mood in grammar, Modus. ] 1. Manner of doing or being; method; form; fashion; custom; way; style; as, the mode of speaking; the mode of dressing. [ 1913 Webster ]

The duty of itself being resolved on, the mode of doing it may easily be found. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

A table richly spread in regal mode. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Prevailing popular custom; fashion, especially in the phrase the mode. [ 1913 Webster ]

The easy, apathetic graces of a man of the mode. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Variety; gradation; degree. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Metaph.) Any combination of qualities or relations, considered apart from the substance to which they belong, and treated as entities; more generally, condition, or state of being; manner or form of arrangement or manifestation; form, as opposed to matter. [ 1913 Webster ]

Modes I call such complex ideas, which, however compounded, contain not in them the supposition of subsisting by themselves, but are considered as dependencies on, or affections of, substances. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Logic) The form in which the proposition connects the predicate and subject, whether by simple, contingent, or necessary assertion; the form of the syllogism, as determined by the quantity and quality of the constituent proposition; mood. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Gram.) Same as Mood. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Mus.) The scale as affected by the various positions in it of the minor intervals; as, the Dorian mode, the Ionic mode, etc., of ancient Greek music. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In modern music, only the major and the minor mode, of whatever key, are recognized. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. A kind of silk. See Alamode, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. (Gram.) the value of the variable in a frequency distribution or probability distribution, at which the probability or frequency has a maximum. The maximum may be local or global. Distributions with only one such maximum are called unimodal; with two maxima, bimodal, and with more than two, multimodal. [ PJC ]

Syn. -- Method; manner. See Method. [ 1913 Webster ]

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a. Suitable to be taken as a model or pattern; as, a model house; a model husband. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. modèle, It. modello, fr. (assumed) L. modellus, fr. modulus a small measure, dim. of modus. See Mode, and cf. Module. ] 1. A miniature representation of a thing, with the several parts in due proportion; sometimes, a facsimile of the same size; as, a 1/100 scale model of the B-52 bomber. [ 1913 Webster ]

In charts, in maps, and eke in models made. Gascoigne. [ 1913 Webster ]

I had my father's signet in my purse,
Which was the model of that Danish seal. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

You have the models of several ancient temples, though the temples and the gods are perished. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Something intended to serve, or that may serve, as a pattern of something to be made; a material representation or embodiment of an ideal; sometimes, a drawing; a plan; as, the clay model of a sculpture; the inventor's model of a machine. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ The application for a patent ] must be accompanied by a full description of the invention, with drawings and a model where the case admits of it. Am. Cyc. [ 1913 Webster ]

When we mean to build
We first survey the plot, then draw the model. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Anything which serves, or may serve, as an example for imitation; as, a government formed on the model of the American constitution; a model of eloquence, virtue, or behavior. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. That by which a thing is to be measured; standard. [ 1913 Webster ]

He that despairs measures Providence by his own little, contracted model. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Any copy, or resemblance, more or less exact. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou seest thy wretched brother die,
Who was the model of thy father's life. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. A person who poses as a pattern for an artist; as, the artist used his daughter as a model for an Indian maiden. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

7. A person who is employed to wear clothing for the purpose of advertising or display, or who poses with a product for the same purpose; a mannequin{ 1 }; as, a fashion model.
Syn. -- mannequin{ 1 }. [ PJC ]

A professional model. H. James. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. A particular version or design of an object that is made in multiple versions; as, the 1993 model of the Honda Accord; the latest model of the HP laserjet printer. For many manufactured products, the model name is encoded as part of the
model number.
Syn. -- modification{ 2 }. [ PJC ]

9. An abstract and often simplified conceptual representation of the workings of a system of objects in the real world, which often includes mathematical or logical objects and relations representing the objects and relations in the real-world system, and constructed for the purpose of explaining the workings of the system or predicting its behavior under hypothetical conditions; as, the administration's model of the United States economy predicts budget surpluses for the next fifteen years; different models of the universe assume different values for the cosmological constant; models of proton structure have grown progressively more complex in the past century. [ PJC ]

Working model, a model of a machine which can do on a small scale the work which the machine itself does, or is expected to do. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Modeled r Modelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Modeling or Modelling. ] [ Cf. F. modeler, It. modellare. ] To plan or form after a pattern; to form in model; to form a model or pattern for; to shape; to mold; to fashion; as, to model a house or a government; to model an edifice according to the plan delineated. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. (Fine Arts) To make a copy or a pattern; to design or imitate forms; as, to model in wax. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. resembling sculpture; as, her finely modeled features.
Syn. -- sculptural, sculptured, sculpturesque. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who models; hence, a worker in plastic art. [ Written also modeller. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Fine Arts) 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. [ Written also modelling. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Modeling plane, a small plane for planing rounded objects. --
Modeling wax, beeswax melted with a little Venice turpentine, or other resinous material, and tinted with coloring matter, usually red, -- used in modeling. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To model. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ by shortening from modulator-demodulator. ] 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. [ PJC ]

‖n. [ From Modena, in Italy. ] A certain crimsonlike color. Good. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Modena or its inhabitants. -- n. sing. & pl. A native or inhabitant of Modena; the people of Modena. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To moderate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. See Mother female parent. ] 1. A mother. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The principal piece of an astrolabe, into which the others are fixed. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. moderabilis. ] Moderate; temperate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Moderation. [ Obs. ] Caxton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To become less violent, severe, rigorous, or intense; as, the wind has moderated. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To preside as a moderator. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dr. Barlow [ was ] engaged . . . to moderate for him in the divinity disputation. Bp. Barlow's Remains (1693). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. moderatus, p. p. of moderate, moderati, to moderate, regulate, control, fr. modus measure. See Mode. ] Kept within due bounds; observing reasonable limits; not excessive, extreme, violent, or rigorous; limited; restrained; as: (a) Limited in quantity; sparing; temperate; frugal; as, moderate in eating or drinking; a moderate table. (b) Limited in degree of activity, energy, or excitement; reasonable; calm; slow; as, moderate language; moderate endeavors. (c) Not extreme in opinion, in partisanship, and the like; as, a moderate Calvinist; a moderate Republican. [ 1913 Webster ]

A number of moderate members managed . . . to obtain a majority in a thin house. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

(d) Not violent or rigorous; temperate; mild; gentle; as, a moderate winter. “Moderate showers.” Walter. (e) Limited as to degree of progress; as, to travel at moderate speed. (f) Limited as to the degree in which a quality, principle, or faculty appears; as, an infusion of moderate strength; a man of moderate abilities. (g) Limited in scope or effects; as, a reformation of a moderate kind. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Eccl. Hist.) One of a party in the Church of Scotland in the 18th century, and part of the 19th, professing moderation in matters of church government, in discipline, and in doctrine. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Moderated p. pr. & vb. n. Moderating. ] 1. To restrain from excess of any kind; to reduce from a state of violence, intensity, or excess; to keep within bounds; to make temperate; to lessen; to allay; to repress; to temper; to qualify; as, to moderate rage, action, desires, etc.; to moderate heat or wind. [ 1913 Webster ]

By its astringent quality, it moderates the relaxing quality of warm water. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

To moderate stiff minds disposed to strive. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To preside over, direct, or regulate, as a public meeting or a discussion; as, to moderate a synod; to moderate a debate. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

adj. having elements or qualities mixed in proper or suitable proportions; especially, made less severe. Contrasted with harsh.
Syn. -- qualified, tempered. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

adv. In a moderate manner or degree; to a moderate extent. [ 1913 Webster ]

Each nymph but moderately fair. Waller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being moderate; temperateness; moderation. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. lessening in intensity or strength. Opposite of intensifying. [ Narrower terms: tempering; weakening ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. moderatio: cf. F. modération. ] 1. The act of moderating, or of imposing due restraint. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state or quality of being mmoderate. [ 1913 Webster ]

In moderation placing all my glory,
While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Calmness of mind; equanimity; as, to bear adversity with moderation. [ 1913 Webster ]

The calm and judicious moderation of Orange. Motley. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. pl. The first public examinations for degrees at the University of Oxford; -- usually contracted to mods. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Moderation in doctrines or opinion, especially in politics or religion. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖a. & adv. [ It. See Moderate. ] (Mus.) With a moderate degree of quickness; moderately. [ 1913 Webster ]

Allegro moderato, a little slower than allegro. --
Andante moderato, a little faster than andante. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L.: cf. F. modérateur. ] 1. One who, or that which, moderates, restrains, or pacifies. Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

Angling was . . . a moderator of passions. Walton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The officer who presides over an assembly or discussion to preserve order, propose questions, regulate the proceedings, and declare the votes. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. In the University of Oxford, an examiner for moderations; at Cambridge, the superintendant of examinations for degrees; at Dublin, either the first (senior) or second (junior) in rank in an examination for the degree of Bachelor of Arts. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A mechanical arrangement for regulating motion in a machine, or producing equality of effect. [ 1913 Webster ]