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without regard to other accidents, such as time, person, number, etc.; as, the indicative mood; the infinitive mood; the subjunctive mood. Same as Mode.

Mother. [Obs.] Chaucer.

In a moody manner.

The quality or state of being moody; specifically, liability to strange or violent moods.

The governor of a province in Egypt, etc. [Written also mudir.]

Moody. [Obs.]

Moodily. [Obs.]

Subject to varying moods, especially to states of mind which are unamiable or depressed.

h occasion to adjective the distinct signification of the verb, and to adjective also the mood, as it has to adjective time. It has . . . adjectived all three. Tooke.

Friendly; kindly; sweet; gracious; as, an amiable temper or mood; amiable ideas.

Fig.: Position as indicating action, feeling, or mood; as, in times of trouble let a nation preserve a firm attitude; one's mental attitude in respect to religion. The attitude of the country was rapidly changing. J. R. Green. To strike an attitude, to take an attitude for mere effect.

Chaucer. Now therefore, if thou wilt enriched be, Avise thee well, and change thy willful mood. Spenser.

To have the mind dwell continuously or moodily on a subject; to think long and anxiously; to be in a state of gloomy, serious thought; -- usually followed by over or on; as, to brood over misfortunes. Brooding on unprofitable gold. Dryden. Brooding over all these matters, the mother felt like one who has evoked a spiri…

To inflect (a verb), or give in order the forms which it assumed in its several voices, moods, tenses, numbers, and persons.

Closely united. [Obs.] Shak. Conjunctive mood (Gram.), the mood which follows a conjunction or expresses contingency; the subjunctive mood. -- Conjunctive tissue (Anat.), the tissue found in nearly all parts of most animals. It yields gelatin on boiling, and consists of vriously arranged fibers which are imbedded prot…

A melting or maudlin mood. Carlyle.

Mood; humor. As I perchance hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on. Shak.

imperatives. It expresses entreaty or earnest request; as, do help me. In the imperative mood, but not in the indicative, it may be used with the verb to be; as, do be quiet. Do, did, and done often stand as a general substitute or representative verb, and thus save the repetition of the principal verb. "To live and d…

Same as Doric, 3. "Dorian mood." Milton. Dorian mode (Mus.), the first of the authentic church modes or tones, from D to D, resembling our D minor scale, but with the B natural. Grove.

A wandering from a subject; digression. I am not in a scribbling mood, and shall therefore make no excursions. Cowper.