MPage 105
- English Word Melancholize Definition To make melancholy.
- English Word Melancholy Definition Depression of spirits; a gloomy state continuing a considerable time; deep dejection; gloominess.
- English Word Melancholy Definition Great and continued depression of spirits, amounting to mental unsoundness; melancholia.
- English Word Melancholy Definition Pensive maditation; serious thoughtfulness.
- English Word Melancholy Definition Ill nature.
- English Word Melancholy Definition Depressed in spirits; dejected; gloomy dismal.
- English Word Melancholy Definition Producing great evil and grief; causing dejection; calamitous; afflictive; as, a melancholy event.
- English Word Melancholy Definition Somewhat deranged in mind; having the jugment impaired.
- English Word Melancholy Definition Favorable to meditation; somber.
- English Word Melanesian Definition Of or pertaining to Melanesia.
- English Word Melange Definition A mixture; a medley.
- English Word Melanian Definition One of a family of fresh-water pectinibranchiate mollusks, having a turret-shaped shell.
- English Word Melanic Definition Melanotic.
- English Word Melanic Definition Of or pertaining to the black-haired races.
- English Word Melaniline Definition A complex nitrogenous hydrocarbon obtained artificially (as by the action of cyanogen chloride on aniline) as a white, crystalline substance; -- called also diphenyl guanidin.
- English Word Melanin Definition A black pigment found in the pigment-bearing cells of the skin (particularly in the skin of the negro), in the epithelial cells of the external layer of the retina (then called fuscin), in the outer layer of the choroid, and elsewhere. It is supposed to be derived from the decomposition of hemoglobin.
- English Word Melanism Definition An undue development of dark-colored pigment in the skin or its appendages; -- the opposite of albinism.
- English Word Melanism Definition A disease; black jaundice. See Mel/na.
- English Word Melanistic Definition Affected with melanism; of the nature of melanism.
- English Word Melanite Definition A black variety of garnet.
- English Word Melanochroi Definition A group of the human race, including the dark whites.
- English Word Melanochroic Definition Having a dark complexion; of or pertaining to the Melanochroi.
- English Word Melanochroite Definition A mineral of a red, or brownish or yellowish red color. It is a chromate of lead; -- called also phoenicocroite.
- English Word Melanocomous Definition Having very dark or black hair; black-haired.
- English Word Melanorrhoea Definition An East Indian genus of large trees. Melanorrh/a usitatissima is the lignum-vitae of Pegu, and yelds a valuable black varnish.
- English Word Melanoscope Definition An instrument containing a combination of colored glasses such that they transmit only red light, so that objects of other colors, as green leaves, appear black when seen through it. It is used for viewing colored flames, to detect the presence of potassium, lithium, etc., by the red light which they emit.
- English Word Melanosis Definition The morbid deposition of black matter, often of a malignant character, causing pigmented tumors.
- English Word Melanosperm Definition An alga of any kind that produces blackish spores, or seed dust. The melanosperms include the rockweeds and all kinds of kelp.
- English Word Melanotic Definition Melanistic.
- English Word Melanotype Definition A positive picture produced with sensitized collodion on a smooth surface of black varnish, coating a thin plate of iron; also, the process of making such a picture.