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Discoidal by derivation; -- applied especially to the placenta of man and apes, because it is supposed to have been derived from a diffused placenta.

Metalloid.

Of or pertaining to a meteoroid or to meteoroids.

Of or pertaining to a mode or mood; consisting in mode or form only; relating to form; having the form without the essence or reality. Glanvill.

One who regards Father, Son, and Spirit as modes of being, and not as persons, thus denying personal distinction in the Trinity. Eadie.

The quality or state of being modal.

In a modal manner. A compound proposition, the parts of which are united modally ... by the particles "as" and "so." Gibbs.

Molluscoid.

A toxic alkaloid (ptomaine) obtained from putrid flesh and from herring brines. As a poison it is said to execute profuse diarrhoea, vomiting, and intestinal inflammation. Brieger.

See Neurocord.

Of the nature of, or relating to, a node; as, a nodal point. Nodal line, Nodal point, in a vibrating plate or cord, that line or point which remains at rest while the other parts of the body are in a state of vibration.

Of or pertaining to the notochord; having a notochord.

nd medieval Teutonic peoples, esp. Scandinavians, the heritable land held by the various odalmen constituting a family or kindred of freeborn tribesmen; also, the ownership of such land. The odal was subject only to certain rights of the family or kindred in restricting the freedom of transfer or sale and giving certai…

A female slave or concubine in the harem of the Turkish sultan. [Written also odahlic, odalisk, and odalik.] Not of those that men desire, sleek Odalisques, or oracles of mode. Tennyson.

A man or woman having odal, or able to share in it by inheritance.

Shaped like an egg.

Of or pertaining to the orbitosphenoid bone; orbitosphenoid.

Ordeal. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Of or pertaining to trial by ordeal. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Resembling an egg in shape; egg-shaped; ovate; as, an ovoidal apple.