‖n. [ Ar. mudīr. ] The governor of a province in Egypt, etc. [ Written also mudir. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. mood, mod, AS. mōdmind, feeling, heart, courage; akin to OS. & OFries. mōd, D. moed, OHG. muot, G. muth, mut, courage, Dan. & Sw. mod, Icel. mōðr wrath, Goth. mōds. ] Temper of mind; temporary state of the mind in regard to passion or feeling; humor; as, a melancholy mood; a suppliant mood. [ 1913 Webster ]

Till at the last aslaked was his mood. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fortune is merry,
And in this mood will give us anything. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The desperate recklessness of her mood. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ The same word as mode, perh. influenced by mood temper. See Mode. ] 1. Manner; style; mode; logical form; musical style; manner of action or being. See Mode which is the preferable form). [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Gram.) Manner of conceiving and expressing action or being, as positive, possible, conditional, hypothetical, obligatory, imperitive, etc., without regard to other accidents, such as time, person, number, etc.; as, the indicative mood; the imperitive mood; the infinitive mood; the subjunctive mood. Same as Mode. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Mother. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a moody manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being moody; specifically, liability to strange or violent moods. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Moody. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Moodily. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Moodier superl. Moodiest. ] [ AS. mōdig courageous. ] 1. Subject to varying moods, especially to states of mind which are unamiable or depressed. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: Out of humor; peevish; angry; fretful; also, abstracted and pensive; sad; gloomy; melancholy. “Every peevish, moody malcontent.” Rowe. [ 1913 Webster ]

Arouse thee from thy moody dream! Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Gloomy; pensive; sad; fretful; capricious. [ 1913 Webster ]