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In a moody manner.

Mood"i*ness, n. The quality or
state of being moody; specifically, liability to strange or violent
moods.

||Moo"dir (?), n. [Ar.
mudīr.] The governor of a province in Egypt,
etc. [Written also mudir.]

Mood"ish (?), a. Moody.
[Obs.]

Mood"ish*ly, adv. Moodily.
[Obs.]

Mood"y (-&ybreve;), a.
[Compar. Moodier (?);
superl. Moodiest.] [AS. mōdig
courageous.] 1. Subject to varying moods,
especially to states of mind which are unamiable or
depressed.

2. Hence: Out of humor; peevish; angry;
fretful; also, abstracted and pensive; sad; gloomy; melancholy.
"Every peevish, moody malcontent." Rowe.

Arouse thee from thy moody dream!

Sir W. Scott.

Syn. -- Gloomy; pensive; sad; fretful; capricious.

{ Moo"lah (?), Mool"lah }, n.

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