MPage 205
- English Word Modish Definition According to the mode, or customary manner; conformed to the fashion; fashionable; hence, conventional; as, a modish dress; a modish feast.
- English Word Modist Definition One who follows the fashion.
- English Word Modiste Definition A female maker of, or dealer in, articles of fashion, especially of the fashionable dress of ladies; a woman who gives direction to the style or mode of dress.
- English Word Modius Definition A dry measure, containing about a peck.
- English Word Modocs Definition A tribe of warlike Indians formerly inhabiting Northern California. They are nearly extinct.
- English Word Modular Definition Of or pertaining to mode, modulation, module, or modius; as, modular arrangement; modular accent; modular measure.
- English Word Modulate Definition To form, as sound, to a certain key, or to a certain portion.
- English Word Modulate Definition To vary or inflect in a natural, customary, or musical manner; as, the organs of speech modulate the voice in reading or speaking.
- English Word Modulate Definition To pass from one key into another.
- English Word Modulated Definition of Modulate
- English Word Modulating Definition of Modulate
- English Word Modulation Definition The act of modulating, or the state of being modulated; as, the modulation of the voice.
- English Word Modulation Definition Sound modulated; melody.
- English Word Modulation Definition A change of key, whether transient, or until the music becomes established in the new key; a shifting of the tonality of a piece, so that the harmonies all center upon a new keynote or tonic; the art of transition out of the original key into one nearly related, and so on, it may be, by successive changes, into a key quite remote. There are also sudden and unprepared modulations.
- English Word Modulator Definition One who, or that which, modulates.
- English Word Module Definition A model or measure.
- English Word Module Definition The size of some one part, as the diameter of semi-diameter of the base of a shaft, taken as a unit of measure by which the proportions of the other parts of the composition are regulated. Generally, for columns, the semi-diameter is taken, and divided into a certain number of parts, called minutes (see Minute), though often the diameter is taken, and any dimension is said to be so many modules and minutes in height, breadth, or projection.
- English Word Module Definition To model; also, to modulate.
- English Word Moduli Definition of Modulus
- English Word Modulus Definition 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.
- English Word Modus Definition The arrangement of, or mode of expressing, the terms of a contract or conveyance.
- English Word Modus Definition A qualification involving the idea of variation or departure from some general rule or form, in the way of either restriction or enlargement, according to the circumstances of the case, as in the will of a donor, an agreement between parties, and the like.
- English Word Modus Definition A fixed compensation or equivalent given instead of payment of tithes in kind, expressed in full by the phrase modus decimandi.
- English Word Mody Definition Fashionable.
- English Word Moe Definition A wry face or mouth; a mow.
- English Word Moe Definition To make faces; to mow.
- English Word Moe Definition More. See Mo.
- English Word Moebles Definition Movables; furniture; -- also used in the singular (moeble).
- English Word Moelline Definition An unguent for the hair.
- English Word Moellon Definition Rubble masonry.