MOAT, a ditch made round the old castles, and tilled with water. The most surrounding a military fortress of modern construction (or the ditch) is left dry ; but where it is capable of inundation at plessure, this circumstance is considered an advantage to the system of defence. . MODE, a term used by Locke to de note such complex ideas, which, how ever compounded, contain not in them the supposition of subsisting by them selves, but are considered as •lependeuces on, or affections of, sithstanees. or these modes there are two kinds, simple and mixed. Simple modes are "only varia tions or different combinations of the same simple idea, without the mixture of any other, as a dozen or a score, which are nothing but the ideas of so many distinct units added together." Mixed modes are those "compounded of simple ideas of several kinds put together to make one complex one— e. g., beauty ; and consisting of a certain composition of color and figure, causing delight in tho beholder." The term is now universally laid aside by writers on mental philoso phy.—In music, a regular disposition of the sir and accompaniments relative to certain principal sounds, on which a piece of music is formed, and which are called the essential sounds of the mode.
In the earliest Greek music there were only three modes, but various new modes were afterwards added. The moderns, however, only reckon two modes, the major and minor. The major mode is that division of the octave by which the intervals between the third and fourth, and seventh and eighth, become half tones, and all the other intervals whole tones. The minor mode is division by which the intervals bet ween t he second and third, and firth and sixth, become half-tones, unit all the others whoto tones.—In logic, the form or manner of a syllogism with respect to the quantity and quality of its constituent propositions.
3101YEL, in the Fine Arts, that which is an object of imitation.—In painting and sculpture, it is the individual whom the artist procures for getting up his proportions, details, play of the mus cles, Ae.—Also in sculpture, it is the terns applied to the small sketch in wax or clay for a work of art.—In architecture, it is a small pattern its relief, eithef of wood, plaster, or other material, of the building proposed to be executed.