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Any bird of the genus Manucodia, of Australia and New Guinea. They are related to the bird of paradise.

Any one of several species of large-footed, gallinaceous birds of the genera Megapodius and Leipoa, inhabiting Australia and other Pacific islands. See Jungle fowl (b) under Jungle, and Leipoa.

The black hellebore. [Obs.] Spenser.

A kind of small reed organ; -- a portable form of the seraphine.

The layer of the blastoderm, between the ectoderm and endoderm; mesoblast. See Illust. of Blastoderm and Ectoderm.

Pertaining to, or derived from, the mesoderm; as, mesodermal tissues.

Same as Mesodermal.

The posterior division of the foot in the Gastropoda and Pteropoda.

of Misbede.

of Misbede.

The seventh ecclesiastical mode, whose scale commences on G.

Manner of doing or being; method; form; fashion; custom; way; style; as, the mode of speaking; the mode of dressing. The duty of itself being resolved on, the mode of doing it may easily be found. Jer. Taylor. A table richly spread in regal mode. Milton.

due proportion; sometimes, a facsimile of the same size. In charts, in maps, and eke in models made. Gascoigne. I had my father's signet in my purse, Which was the model of that Danish seal. Shak. You have the models of several ancient temples, though the temples and the gods are perished. Addison.

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

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.] Modeling plane, a small plane for planing rounded objects. -- Modeling wax, bee…

To model. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

A certain crimsonlike color. Good.

Of or pertaining to Modena or its inhabitants. -- n. sing. & pl.

To moderate. [Obs.]

Modeate; temperate. [Obs.]