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and 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 certa…

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.

Pertaining to acnodes.

The quality of being à la mode; conformity to the mode or fashion; fashionableness. [R.] Southey.

Diametrically opposite. His antipodal shadow." Lowell.

Without feet; footless.

Possessing, or characterized by, a crunode; -- used of curves.

Belonging to the decapods; having ten feet; ten-footed.

Without a node. Gray.

Same as Episodic.

Feudal. See Feudal.

Feudal tenure; the feudal system. See Feudality. Burke.

Of or pertaining to internodes; intervening between nodes or joints.

An oily liquid, Cl3.CHO, analogous to chloral and bromal.

Having long or large feet, or a long stem.

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.