Mood \Mood\ (m[=oo]d), 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]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

Mood \Mood\, n. [OE. mood, mod, AS. m[=o]dmind, feeling, heart, courage; akin to OS. & OFries. m[=o]d, D. moed, OHG. muot, G. muth, mut, courage, Dan. & Sw. mod, Icel. m[=o][eth]r wrath, Goth. m[=o]ds.]

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]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

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Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
 

mood

Source: WordNet (r) 2.0
 

Mood \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).

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

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Mood \Mood\, n. [OE. mood, mod, AS. m[=o]dmind, feeling, heart, courage; akin to OS. & OFries. m[=o]d, D. moed, OHG. muot, G. muth, mut, courage, Dan. & Sw. mod, Icel. m[=o]?r wrath, Goth. m[=o]ds.]

Temper of mind; temporary state of the mind in regard to passion or feeling; humor; as, a melancholy mood; a suppliant mood.

Till at the last aslaked was mood. --Chaucer.

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

The desperate recklessness of her mood. --Hawthorne.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)