| • | A miniature representation of a thing, with the several
   parts in due proportion; sometimes, a facsimile of the same size. | 
											
															| • | Something intended to serve, or that may serve, as a pattern
   of something to be made; a material representation or embodiment of an
   ideal; sometimes, a drawing; a plan; as, the clay model of a sculpture;
   the inventor's model of a machine. | 
											
															| • | Anything which serves, or may serve, as an example for
   imitation; as, a government formed on the model of the American
   constitution; a model of eloquence, virtue, or behavior. | 
											
															| • | That by which a thing is to be measured; standard. | 
											
															| • | Any copy, or resemblance, more or less exact. | 
											
															| • | A person who poses as a pattern to an artist. | 
											
															| • | Suitable to be taken as a model or pattern; as, a model
   house; a model husband. | 
											
															| • | 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. | 
											
															| • | To make a copy or a pattern; to design or imitate forms;
   as, to model in wax. |