Modiolar (a.) Shaped like a bushel measure.
Modioli (pl. ) of Modiolus
Modiolus (n.) The central column in the osseous cochlea of the ear.
Modish (a.) According to the mode, or customary manner; conformed to the fashion; fashionable; hence, conventional; as, a modish dress; a modish feast.
Modist (n.) One who follows the fashion.
Modiste (n.) 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.
Modii (pl. ) of Modius
Modius (n.) A dry measure, containing about a peck.
Modocs (n. pl.) A tribe of warlike Indians formerly inhabiting Northern California. They are nearly extinct.
Modular (a.) Of or pertaining to mode, modulation, module, or modius; as, modular arrangement; modular accent; modular measure.
Modulated (imp. & p. p.) of Modulate
Modulating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Modulate
Modulate (v. t.) To form, as sound, to a certain key, or to a certain portion.
Modulate (v. t.) To vary or inflect in a natural, customary, or musical manner; as, the organs of speech modulate the voice in reading or speaking.
Modulate (v. i.) To pass from one key into another.
Modulation (n.) The act of modulating, or the state of being modulated; as, the modulation of the voice.
Modulation (n.) Sound modulated; melody.
Modulation (n.) 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.
Modulator (n.) One who, or that which, modulates.
Module (n.) A model or measure.
Module (n.) 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.
Module (n.) To model; also, to modulate.
Moduli (pl. ) of Modulus
Modulus (n.) 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.
Modi (pl. ) of Modus
Modus (n.) The arrangement of, or mode of expressing, the terms of a contract or conveyance.
Modus (n.) 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.
Modus (n.) A fixed compensation or equivalent given instead of payment of tithes in kind, expressed in full by the phrase modus decimandi.
Mody (a.) Fashionable.
Moe (n.) A wry face or mouth; a mow.
Moe (v. i.) To make faces; to mow.
Moe (a., adv., & n.) More. See Mo.
Moebles (n. pl.) Movables; furniture; -- also used in the singular (moeble).
Moelline (n.) An unguent for the hair.
Moellon (n.) Rubble masonry.
Moesogothic (a.) Belonging to the Moesogoths, a branch of the Goths who settled in Moesia.
Moesogothic (n.) The language of the Moesogoths; -- also called Gothic.
Moeve (v. t. & i.) To move.
Moff (n.) A thin silk stuff made in Caucasia.
Moggan (n.) A closely fitting knit sleeve; also, a legging of knitted material.
Mogul (n.) A person of the Mongolian race.
Mogul (n.) A heavy locomotive for freight traffic, having three pairs of connected driving wheels and a two-wheeled truck.
Moha (n.) A kind of millet (Setaria Italica); German millet.
Mohair (n.) 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.
Mohammedan (a.) Of or pertaining to Mohammed, or the religion and institutions founded by Mohammed.
Mohammedan (n.) A follower of Mohammed, the founder of Islamism; one who professes Mohammedanism or Islamism.
Mohammedanism (n.) Alt. of Mohammedism
Mohammedism (n.) The religion, or doctrines and precepts, of Mohammed, contained in the Koran; Islamism.
Mohammedanize (v. t.) Alt. of Mohammedize
Mohammedize (v. t.) To make conformable to the principles, or customs and rites, of Mohammedanism.
Mohawk (n.) One of a tribe of Indians who formed part of the Five Nations. They formerly inhabited the valley of the Mohawk River.
Mohawk (n.) One of certain ruffians who infested the streets of London in the time of Addison, and took the name from the Mohawk Indians.
Mohicans (n. pl.) A tribe of Lenni-Lenape Indians who formerly inhabited Western Connecticut and Eastern New York.
Moho (n.) A gallinule (Notornis Mantelli) formerly inhabiting New Zealand, but now supposed to be extinct. It was incapable of flight. See Notornis.
Mohock (n.) See Mohawk.
Moholi (n.) See Maholi.
Mohr (n.) 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.
Mohur (n.) A British Indian gold coin, of the value of fifteen silver rupees, or $7.21.
Mohurrum (n.) Alt. of Muharram
Muharram (n.) The first month of the Mohammedan year.
Muharram (n.) A festival of the Shiah sect of the Mohammedans held during the first ten days of the month Mohurrum.
Moider (v. i.) To toil.
Moidore (n.) A gold coin of Portugal, valued at about 27s. sterling.
Moieties (pl. ) of Moiety
Moiety (a.) 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.
Moiety (a.) An indefinite part; a small part.
Moiled (imp. & p. p.) of Moil
Moiling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Moil
Moil (v. t.) To daub; to make dirty; to soil; to defile.
Moil (v. i.) To soil one's self with severe labor; to work with painful effort; to labor; to toil; to drudge.
Moil (n.) A spot; a defilement.
Moile (n.) A kind of high shoe anciently worn.
Moineau (n.) A small flat bastion, raised in the middle of an overlong curtain.
Moira (n.) The deity who assigns to every man his lot.
Moire (n.) Originally, a fine textile fabric made of the hair of an Asiatic goat; afterwards, any textile fabric to which a watered appearance is given in the process of calendering.
Moire (n.) A watered, clouded, or frosted appearance produced upon either textile fabrics or metallic surfaces.
Moire metallique () A crystalline or frosted appearance produced by some acids on tin plate; also, the tin plate thus treated.
Moist (a.) Moderately wet; damp; humid; not dry; as, a moist atmosphere or air.
Moist (a.) Fresh, or new.
Moist (v. t.) To moisten.
Moistened (imp. & p. p.) of Moisten
Moistening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Moisten
Moisten (v. t.) To make damp; to wet in a small degree.
Moisten (v. t.) To soften by making moist; to make tender.
Moistener (n.) One who, or that which, moistens.
Moistful (a.) Full of moisture.
Moistless (a.) Without moisture; dry.
Moistness (n.) The quality or state of being moist.
Moisture (n.) A moderate degree of wetness.
Moisture (n.) That which moistens or makes damp or wet; exuding fluid; liquid in small quantity.
Moistureless (a.) Without moisture.
Moisty (a.) Moist.
Moither (v. t.) To perplex; to confuse.
Moither (v. i.) To toil; to labor.
Mokadour (n.) A handkerchief.
Moke (n.) A donkey.
Moke (n.) A mesh of a net, or of anything resembling a net.
Moky (a.) Misty; dark; murky; muggy.
Mola (n.) See Sunfish, 1.
Molar (a.) Of or pertaining to a mass of matter; -- said of the properties or motions of masses, as distinguished from those of molecules or atoms.