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- English Word Meiny Definition A family, including servants, etc.; household; retinue; train.
- English Word Meiny Definition Company; band; army.
- English Word Meiocene Definition See Miocene.
- English Word Meionite Definition A member of the scapolite, group, occuring in glassy crystals on Monte Somma, near Naples.
- English Word Meiosis Definition Diminution; a species of hyperbole, representing a thing as being less than it really is.
- English Word Meistersinger Definition See Mastersinger.
- English Word Mekhitarist Definition See Mechitarist.
- English Word Melaconite Definition An earthy black oxide of copper, arising from the decomposition of other ores.
- English Word Melada Definition Alt. of Melado
- English Word Melado Definition A mixture of sugar and molasses; crude sugar as it comes from the pans without being drained.
- English Word Melaena Definition A discharge from the bowels of black matter, consisting of altered blood.
- English Word Melain Definition The dark coloring matter of the liquid of the cuttlefish.
- English Word Melainotype Definition See Melanotype.
- English Word Melam Definition A white or buff-colored granular powder, C6H9N11, obtained by heating ammonium sulphocyanate.
- English Word Melamine Definition A strong nitrogenous base, C3H6N6, produced from several cyanogen compounds, and obtained as a white crystalline substance, -- formerly supposed to be produced by the decomposition of melam. Called also cyanuramide.
- English Word Melampode Definition The black hellebore.
- English Word Melampyrin Definition Alt. of Melampyrite
- English Word Melampyrite Definition The saccharine substance dulcite; -- so called because found in the leaves of cowwheat (Melampyrum). See Dulcite.
- English Word Melanaemia Definition A morbid condition in which the blood contains black pigment either floating freely or imbedded in the white blood corpuscles.
- English Word Melanagogue Definition A medicine supposed to expel black bile or choler.
- English Word Melancholia Definition A kind of mental unsoundness characterized by extreme depression of spirits, ill-grounded fears, delusions, and brooding over one particular subject or train of ideas.
- English Word Melancholian Definition A person affected with melancholy; a melancholic.
- English Word Melancholic Definition Given to melancholy; depressed; melancholy; dejected; unhappy.
- English Word Melancholic Definition One affected with a gloomy state of mind.
- English Word Melancholic Definition A gloomy state of mind; melancholy.
- English Word Melancholily Definition In a melancholy manner.
- English Word Melancholiness Definition The state or quality of being melancholy.
- English Word Melancholious Definition Melancholy.
- English Word Melancholist Definition One affected with melancholy or dejection.
- English Word Melancholize Definition To become gloomy or dejected in mind.