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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.

One of the Monodelphia.

The group that includes all ordinary or placental mammals; the Placentalia. See Mammalia.

Of or pertaining to the Monodelphia.

One of a fabulous tribe or race of Ethiopians having but one leg and foot. Sir J. Mandeville. Lowell.

Mother. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The telegraphic code, consisting of dots, dashes, and spaces, invented by Samuel B. Morse. The Alphabetic code which is in use in North America is given below. In length, or duration, one dash is theoretically equal to three dots; the space between the elements of a letter is equal to one dot; the interval in spaced le…

A genus of microörganisms of which the acetic ferment (Mycoderma aceti), which converts alcoholic fluids into vinegar, is a representative. Cf. Mother.

A division of Infusoria including the Noctiluca. See Noctiluca.

Same as Nematoid.

In ancient Sparta, one of those Helots who were freed by the state in reward for military service. Milford.

To remodel.

A place of entertainment, as for moving picture exhibition, charging a fee or admission price of five cents. [U. S.]

A knot, a knob; a protuberance; a swelling.

Having eighteen leaves to a sheet; as, an octodecimo form, book, leaf, size, etc.

Having eight teeth.

The central part of the hilum of a seed, through which the nutrient vessels pass into the rhaphe or the chalaza; -- called also omphalodium.

A kind of plaster, said to have been invented by Mindererus, -- used for external injuries. [Obs.]