Dictionary entry

Mood (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

Till at the last aslaked was his mood. Chaucer.

Fortune is merry,

And in this mood will give us anything. Shak.

The desperate recklessness of her mood. Hawthorne.