A professional model.
H. James.
Working model, a model of a machine which can do on a small scale the
work which the machine itself does, or is expected to do.
Mod"el (?), a. Suitable to be taken as a model or pattern; as, a model
house; a model husband.
Mod"el, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Modeled (?) or Modelled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Modeling or Modelling.] [Cf. F. modeler, It. modellare.] To plan or
form after a pattern; to form in model; to form a model or pattern for;
to shape; to mold; to fashion; as, to model a house or a government; to
model an edifice according to the plan delineated.
Mod"el, v. i. (Fine Arts) To make a copy or a pattern; to design or
imitate forms; as, to model in wax.
Mod"el*er (?), n. One who models; hence, a worker in plastic art.
[Written also modeller.]
Mod"el*ing, n. (Fine Arts) The act or art of making a model from which
a work of art is to be executed; the formation of a work of art from
some plastic material. Also, in painting, drawing, etc., the expression
or indication of solid form. [Written also modelling.]
Modeling plane, a small plane for planing rounded objects. -- Modeling
wax, beeswax melted with a little Venice turpentine, or other resinous
material, and tinted with coloring matter, usually red, -- used in
modeling.
Mod"el*ize (?), v. t. To model. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
||Mod"e*na (?), n. [From Modena, in Italy.] A certain crimsonlike
||color. Good.
Mod`e*nese" (?), a. Of or pertaining to Modena or its inhabitants. --
n. sing. & pl. A native or inhabitant of Modena; the people of Modena.
Mo"der (?), n. [OE. See Mother female parent.] 1. A mother. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
2. The principal piece of an astrolabe, into which the others are
fixed. [Obs.]