MELANCHOLIOUS
MELANCHO'LIOUS, adjective Gloomy. [Not in use.]
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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MELANITIC
MELANIT'IC, adjective Pertaining to melanite.
MELASSES
MEL'ASSES, noun sing. [Gr. black, or honey.] The sirup which drains from Muscovado sugar when cooling; treacle.
MELIORATE
ME'LIORATE, verb transitive [Latin melior, better.] To make better; to improve; as, to meliorate fruit by grafting, or soil by cultivation. Civilization has done much, but chris...
MELIORATED
ME'LIORATED, participle passive Made better; improved.
MELIORATING
ME'LIORATING, participle present tense Improving; advancing in good qualities.The pure and benign light of revelation has had a meliorating influence on mankind.
MELIORATION
MELIORA'TION, noun The act or operation of making better; improvement.
MELIORITY
MELIOR'ITY, noun The state of being better. [Not in use.]
MELL
MELL, verb intransitive To mix; to meddle. [Not in use.]MELL, noun [Latin mel.] Honey. [Not English.]
MELLIFEROUS
MELLIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin mel, honey, and fero, to produce.]Producing honey.
MELLIFICATION
MELLIFICA'TION, noun [Latin mellifico.] The making or production of honey.
MELLIFLUENCE
MELLIF'LUENCE, noun [Latin mel, honey, and fluo, to flow.]A flow of sweetness, or a sweet smooth flow.
MELLIFLUENT
MELLIF'LUENTMELLIF'LUOUS, adjective Flowing with honey; smooth; sweetly flowing; as a mellifluous voice.
MELLIFLUOUS
MELLIF'LUOUS, a. Flowing with honey; smooth; sweetly flowing; as a mellifluous voice.
MELLITIC
MELLIT'IC, adjective Pertaining to honey stone.
MELLOWY
MEL'LOWY, adjective Soft, unctuous.
MELOCOTONE
MELOCOTO'NE, noun [Latin malum cotoneum, quince-apple. Cotomeum is probably our cotton, and the fruit so named from its pubescence.]A quince. But the name is sometimes given to ...
MELODIOUS
MELO'DIOUS, adjective [See Melody.] Containing melody; musical; agreeable to the ear by a sweet succession of sounds; as a melodious voice; melodious strains.And music more melo...
MELODIOUSLY
MELO'DIOUSLY, adverb In a melodious manner; musically.
MELODIOUSNESS
MELO'DIOUSNESS, noun The quality of being agreeable to the ear by a sweet succession of sounds; musicalness.
MELODIZE
MEL'ODIZE, verb transitive To make melodious.
MELODRAME
MEL'ODRAME, noun [Gr. a song, and drama.] A dramatic performance in which songs are intermixed.
MELODY
MEL'ODY, noun [Gr. a limb, or a song, an ode; Latin melos.]An agreeable succession of sounds; a succession of sounds so regulated and modulated as to please the ear. To constitu...
MELON
MEL'ON, noun [Latin melo; Gr. an apple; Latin mollis.] The name of certain plants and their fruit, as the water-melon, the musk-melon.
MELON-THISTLE
MEL'ON-THISTLE, noun A plant of the genus Cactus.
MELROSE
MEL'ROSE, noun [mel and rose.] Honey of roses.
MELT
MELT, verb transitive [Eng.smelt, smalt. We have in these words decisive evidence that s, in smelten, etc. is a prefix. melt in English, is regular, forming melted for its past ...