Mode

1. n. A kind of silk. See Alamode, n.
2. n. Manner of doing or being; method; form; fashion; custom; way; style; as, the mode of speaking; the mode of dressing.
3. n. Prevailing popular custom; fashion, especially in the phrase the mode.
4. n. Variety; gradation; degree.
5. n. Any combination of qualities or relations, considered apart from the substance to which they belong, and treated as entities; more generally, condition, or state of being; manner or form of arrangement or manifestation; form, as opposed to matter.
6. n. The form in which the proposition connects the predicate and subject, whether by simple, contingent, or necessary assertion; the form of the syllogism, as determined by the quantity and quality of the constituent proposition; mood.
7. n. Same as Mood.
8. n. The scale as affected by the various positions in it of the minor intervals; as, the Dorian mode, the Ionic mode, etc., of ancient Greek music.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.