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Major; in the major mode; as, C dur, that is, C major.

In modern manufacture, a worsted of one color used for window blinds and similar purposes.

Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky. A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades. Milton.

earth, sawdust, etc. It is safer than nitroglycerin, being less liable to explosion from moderate shocks, or from spontaneous decomposition.

E is the third tone of the model diatonic scale. E (E flat) is a tone which is intermediate between D and E.

or the painter's convenience or for exhibition. Easel picture, Easel piece, a painting of moderate size such as is made while resting on an easel, as distinguished from a painting on a wall or ceiling.

Moderate; sparing; frugal. [Obs.] Chaucer.

of civil and canon law as administered in ecclesiastical courts. [Eng.] -- Ecclesiastical modes (Mus.), the church modes, or the scales anciently used. -- Ecclesiastical States, the territory formerly subject to the Pope of Rome as its temporal ruler; -- called also States of the Church.

gazine. Eclectic physician, one of a class of practitioners of medicine, who select their modes of practice and medicines from all schools; formerly, sometimes the same as botanic physician. [U.S.] -- Eclectic school. (Paint.) See Bolognese school, under Bolognese.

onversing with each other; a bucolic; an idyl; as, the Ecloques of Virgil, from which the modern usage of the word has been established.

Copied, reproduced as a molding or cast, in contradistinction from the original model.

A mode of etching upon metals by electrolytic action.

Serving to refute; refutative; -- applied to indirect modes of proof, and opposed to deictic.

regarded as a derivative of anthraquinone; -- so called from a species of rhubarb (Rheum emodei).

tution, as of one part of speech for another, of one gender, number, case, person, tense, mode, or voice, of the same word, for another.

ells are liberated (see Segmentation, and Illust. of Cell Division, under Division). This mode of growth is characteristic of many forms of cells, both animal and vegetable.

Originally, the art of managing engines; in its modern and extended sense, the art and science by which the mechanical properties of matter are made useful to man in structures and machines; the occupation and work of an engineer.

An action, mode of action, or thing, which cannot be satisfactorily explained; a puzzle; as, his conduct is an enigma.

The state or quality of exceeding a measure or rule, or of being immoderate, monstrous, or outrageous. The enormity of his learned acquisitions. De Quincey.

An example; a pattern or model for imitation. [Obs.] Tyndale. Being ensamples to the flock.