GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

Found 2 definitions 

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    Mood , 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).
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    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.
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    Mood, 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.
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    Till at the last aslaked was his mood.
    Chaucer.

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    Fortune is merry,
    And in this mood will give us anything.
    Shak.

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    The desperate recklessness of her mood.
    Hawthorne.

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