Method

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun An orderly procedure or process; regular manner of doing anything; hence, manner; way; mode; as, a method of teaching languages; a method of improving the mind.

II. Method ·noun Orderly arrangement, elucidation, development, or classification; clear and lucid exhibition; systematic arrangement peculiar to an Individual.

III. Method ·noun Classification; a mode or system of classifying natural objects according to certain common characteristics; as, the method of Theophrastus; the method of Ray; the Linnaean method.