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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.

n 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.]

Moderation. [Obs.] Caxton.

Limited in quantity; sparing; temperate; frugal; as, moderate in eating or drinking; a moderate table.

In a moderate manner or degree; to a moderate extent. Each nymph but moderately fair. Waller.

The quality or state of being moderate; temperateness; moderation.

The act of moderating, or of imposing due restraint.

Moderation in doctrines or opinion, especially in politics or religion.

With a moderate degree of quickness; moderately. Allegro moderato, a little slower than allegro. -- Andante moderato, a little faster than andante.

One who, or that which, moderates, restrains, or pacifies. Sir W. Raleigh. Angling was ... a moderator of passions. Walton.

The office of a moderator.

A female moderator. Fuller.

A female moderator.