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- English Word Melodeon Definition A kind of small reed organ; -- a portable form of the seraphine.
- English Word Melodeon Definition A music hall.
- English Word Melodic Definition Of the nature of melody; relating to, containing, or made up of, melody; melodious.
- English Word Melodics Definition The department of musical science which treats of the pitch of tones, and of the laws of melody.
- English Word Melodies Definition of Melody
- English Word Melodiograph Definition A contrivance for preserving a record of music, by recording the action of the keys of a musical instrument when played upon.
- English Word Melodious Definition Containing, or producing, melody; musical; agreeable to the ear by a sweet succession of sounds; as, a melodious voice.
- English Word Melodist Definition A composer or singer of melodies.
- English Word Melodize Definition To make melodious; to form into, or set to, melody.
- English Word Melodize Definition To make melody; to compose melodies; to harmonize.
- English Word Melodized Definition of Melodize
- English Word Melodizing Definition of Melodize
- English Word Melodrama Definition Formerly, a kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes. Now, a drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic. In opera, a passage in which the orchestra plays a somewhat descriptive accompaniment, while the actor speaks; as, the melodrama in the gravedigging scene of Beethoven's "Fidelio".
- English Word Melodramatic Definition Of or pertaining to melodrama; like or suitable to a melodrama; unnatural in situation or action.
- English Word Melodramatist Definition One who acts in, or writes, melodramas.
- English Word Melodrame Definition Melodrama.
- English Word Melody Definition A sweet or agreeable succession of sounds.
- English Word Melody Definition A rhythmical succession of single tones, ranging for the most part within a given key, and so related together as to form a musical whole, having the unity of what is technically called a musical thought, at once pleasing to the ear and characteristic in expression.
- English Word Melody Definition The air or tune of a musical piece.
- English Word Meloe Definition A genus of beetles without wings, but having short oval elytra; the oil beetles. These beetles are sometimes used instead of cantharides for raising blisters. See Oil beetle, under Oil.
- English Word Melograph Definition Same as Melodiograph.
- English Word Melolonthidian Definition A beetle of the genus Melolontha, and allied genera. See May beetle, under May.
- English Word Melon Definition The juicy fruit of certain cucurbitaceous plants, as the muskmelon, watermelon, and citron melon; also, the plant that produces the fruit.
- English Word Melon Definition A large, ornamental, marine, univalve shell of the genus Melo.
- English Word Melop/ia Definition The art of forming melody; melody; -- now often used for a melodic passage, rather than a complete melody.
- English Word Melopiano Definition A piano having a mechanical attachment which enables the player to prolong the notes at will.
- English Word Meloplastic Definition Of or pertaining to meloplasty, or the artificial formation of a new cheek.
- English Word Meloplasty Definition The process of restoring a cheek which has been destroyed wholly or in part.
- English Word Melostemonous Definition Having fever stamens than the parts of the corolla.
- English Word Melotype Definition A picture produced by a process in which development after exposure may be deferred indefinitely, so as to permit transportation of exposed plates; also, the process itself.