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n. The quality of being à la mode; conformity to the mode or fashion; fashionableness. [ R. ] Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. of or at or relating to an anode. Contrastive to cathodic.
Syn. -- anodic [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. 1. Pertaining to the antipodes; situated on the opposite side of the globe. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Diametrically opposite. “His antipodal shadow.” Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ See Apod, n. ] 1. Without feet; footless. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Destitute of the ventral fin, as the eels. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. (Statistics) having or occurring with two modes{ 9 }; having two maxima; -- of a curve or distribution. unimodal [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. (Grammar) relating to different sense modalities. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Grammar) ability to integrate information from different sense modalities. [ PJC ]

a. (Geom.) Possessing, or characterized by, a crunode; -- used of curves. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. (Zool.) Belonging to the decapods; having ten feet; ten-footed. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) Without a node. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Same as Episodic. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Feudal. See Feudal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Feudal tenure; the feudal system. See Feudality. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to internodes; intervening between nodes or joints. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Iod- + alcohol. ] (Chem.) An oily liquid, CI3.CHO, analogous to chloral and bromal. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having long or large feet, or a long stem. [ 1913 Webster ]

fld>(Gram.), n. A modal auxiliary. [ PJC ]

a. [ Cf. F. modal. See Mode. ] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Logic & Metaph.) Indicating, or pertaining to, some mode of conceiving existence, or of expressing thought, such as the modes of possibility or obligation. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

3. (Gram.) Pertaining to or denoting mood. [ PJC ]

fld>(Gram.), n. Any one of the auxiliary verbs of English, such as can, may, will, shall, must, might, could, would, or should, which are used together with the infinitive form of another verb to express distinctions of mood{ 2 }, such as uncertainty, possibility, command, emphasis, and obligation. [ PJC ]

n. (Theol.) One who regards Father, Son, and Spirit as modes of being, and not as persons, thus denying personal distinction in the Trinity. Eadie. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. modalité. ] 1. The quality or state of being modal. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Logic & Metaph.) A modal relation or quality; a mode or point of view under which an object presents itself to the mind. According to Kant, the quality of propositions, as assertory, problematical, or apodeictic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A system of logic which studies how to combine propositions which include the concepts of necessity, possibility, and obligation. [ PJC ]

adv. In a modal manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

A compound proposition, the parts of which are united modally . . . by the particles “as” and “so.” Gibbs. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of the nature of, or relating to, a node; as, a nodal point. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Icel. ē&unr_;al, Dan. odel allodial, Sw. odal. ] (Law) Among the early 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 certain rights of redemption in case of change of ownership by inheritance, etc., and perhaps to other rights of the kindred or the tribe. Survivals of the early odal estates and tenure exist in Orkney and Shetland, where it is usually called by the variant form udal. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. (Law) Noting, or pert. to, odal land or ownership. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ F., fr. Turk. odaliq chambermaid, fr. oda chamber, room. ] A female slave or concubine in the harem of the Turkish sultan. [ Written also odahlic, odalisk, and odalik. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Not of those that men desire, sleek
Odalisques, or oracles of mode. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. (Teut. Law) A man or woman having odal, or able to share in it by inheritance. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, foot + &unr_; pain. ] (Med.) pain in the foot, due to gout, rheumatism, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Quadri- + nodal. ] (Math.) Possessing four nodes; as, quadrinodal curves. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Soda + -lite: cf. F. sodalithe. ] (Min.) A mineral of a white to blue or gray color, occuring commonly in dodecahedrons, also massive. It is a silicate of alumina and soda with some chlorine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Sodalities [ L. sodalitas, fr. sodalis a comrade. ] 1. A fellowship or fraternity; a brotherhood. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (R. C. Ch.) Specifically, a lay association for devotion or for charitable purposes. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. synodalis: cf. F. synodal. ] Synodical. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Ch. of Eng.) A tribute in money formerly paid to the bishop or archdeacon, at the time of his Easter visitation, by every parish priest, now made to the ecclesiastical commissioners; a procuration. [ 1913 Webster ]

Synodals are due, of common right, to the bishop only. Gibson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A constitution made in a provincial or diocesan synod. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. trinodis three-knotted; tri- (see Tri-) + nodus knot. ] 1. (Bot.) Having three knots or nodes; having three points from which a leaf may shoot; as, a trinodal stem. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Geom.) Having three nodal points. [ 1913 Webster ]