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[Moo, v.] The noise of a cow; a lowing. moo-cow, s. A child's name for a cow. "The moo- cow low'd, and Grizzle neigh'd." Combe: Dr. Syntax, I. i. 16. mood (1), *mode, *moode, 8. [A. S. mód = mind, feeling, heart; cogn. with Dut. moed = courage, heart, spirit; Icel. modhr =wrath, moodine ; Dan. & Sw. mod=courage, mettle; Goth. mods =wrath; Ger. muth -courage.] *1. Mind, temper, anger, wrath; heat of temper. "At the last aslaked was his mood." Chaucer: C. T., 1,762. 2. Temper of mind; state of mind as affected by any pa ion or feeling; disposition, humor. "The mob was not in a mood to make nice distinctions." -Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. x. (which is 7,918 miles) being nearly four times as great. Its superficial extent is about a thirteenth part of the earth's surface; its bulk is that of the earth, but as the earth is relatively heavier. its weight is about eighty times that of the moon. As the moon revolves around the earth it manifests phases. After absence for a few nights it reappears as a delicate crescent of white light in the western sky after sunset. Night after night it moves farther to the east, the illuminated portion of its disc continually increasing till the moon becomes full and rises about sunset. When the light of the moon has again so diminished that it is in its last quarter, it is seen high in the heavens in the morning. When it becomes full, the sun and the earth are so nearly in a straight line that the moon narrowly escapes being eclipsed; when new moon is again reached, the sun is nearly undergoing similar obscuration. [ECLIPSE.] The moon shines only by the light of the sun reflected from its surface. To equal the brilliance of the sun 600,000 full moons would be required. The moon appears at all times nearly of the same size, showing that its orbit cannot be far from circular. Its average distance is 240,000 miles, varying at times between 220,000 and 260,000, but the ordinary fluctuations do not exceed 13,000 miles on either side of the mean value. The moon performs a complete revolution around the earth in 27 days, 7 hrs., 43 min., and 11.461 secs. This is called its sidereal period. The lunar month is longer than the sidereal period by 2 days, 5 hrs., 3. A morbid, moody state of mind, as a fit of bad 51.41 secs., because of the advance of the earth in temper or pa ion; sullenne , morosene , . "His moods Of pain were keen as those of better men, Nay, keener." Words worth: Excursion, bk. ii. moôd (2), *mode, *moode, s. [MODE.] I. Ord. Lang.: A manner, a mode, a fashion. II. Technically : 1. Gram.: The designation, by the form of the verb, of the manner of our conception of an event or fact, whether as certain, contingent, po ible, desirable, . There are five moods in the English verb, the indicative, the imperative, the potential, the subjunctive, and the infinitive. 2. Logic : The form of an argument; the regular determination of propositions according to their quantity, as universal or particular, or their quality, as affirmative or negative. "A moode is a lawful placing of propositions, in their dewe qualitie or quantitie." -Wilson: The Arte of Logike , fo. 26. 3. Music: [MODE.] Mood of a categorical syllogism: Logic : The designation of its three propositions in the order in which they stand according to their quantity and quality. moôd-1-ly, adv. [English moody; -ly.] In a moody manner; sullenly, peevishly, sadly. moôd-i-ne , s. [English moody: -ne .] The quality or state of being moody; sullenne , peevishne , morosene . moô-dir, s. [MUDIR.] moô-di-ri-ên, s. [Turk.] The district under the jurisdiction of a moodir. *mood-Ish, a. [English mood (1); -ish.] Sulky, moody. *mood-Ish-ly, adv . [Eng. moodish; -ly .] Sulkily, moodily. i. 166. "To behave moodishly . " - Richardson : Sir C. Grand is on, moôd-ỹ, a . [A. S. módig , from mód =mood.] 1. Pertaining to one's mood, whatever that may be. It at first did not imply that the moody person was sullen. 2. Indulging in or subject to moods or humors. *3. Suited to a particular mood or humor. "Give me some music; music, moody food Of us that trade in love." "That head let it rest, it is now in the mools." Tanna hill : Rab Roryson's Bonnet. 1 the orbit between two succe ive conjunctions of the moon. As the moon revolves on its own axis nearly in the same time as it completes its orbit round the earth, it presents to us at all times nearly the same side of its surface. No clouds appear on it; apparently there is no water to send them forth nor an atmosphere in which they may float. The whole surface is studded with volcanoes, apparently extinct. Their craters are broad, beyond anything existent on the earth. Tycho is 50 miles acro , so is Aristotle, Theophilus is 64, and Petavius 78. Some are 16,000 or 17,000 feet deep. From the absence of an atmosphere the moon must be uninhabitable by any life analogous to that with which we are acquainted. Early in 1898, Dr. George Waltemath, a German astronomer, announced the discovery of a small, "dark" moon near the earth, large enough to disturb the moon's motion. The discovery awaits confirmation, but the fact is not improbable. Prof. Richard A. Proctor, in his "Other Worlds Than Ours," expre es the opinion that the earth is attended by several dark moons. 2. A satellite of any planet. 3. A month; the period of a revolution of the moon round the earth. 4. Anything resembling the moon in shape; a crescent; spec if., in fortification, a crescent-shaped outwork; a half moon. (1) A blue- moon : An expre ion equivalent to the Greek kalends, never. (2) In the moon; beyond the moon: Beyond reach; extravagantly; out of depth. (3) Moon in distance : Naut .: A phrase denoting that the angle between the moon and the sun, or a star, admits of measurement for lunar observation.