Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, sweet clover or melilot; specifically, designating an acid of the aromatic series, obtained from melilot as a white crystalline substance.

A subdivision of mammals not used in some classifications; it includes the badgers.

A high explosive similar to lyddite, consisting principally of picric acid, used in the French military service.

To grow better.

Same as Meliorator.

The act or operation of meliorating, or the state of being meliorated; improvement.

One who meliorates.

The doctrine that there is a tendency throughout nature toward improvement.

The state or quality of being better; melioration.

Any bird of the genus Meliphaga and allied genera; a honey eater; -- called also meliphagidan.

Eating, or feeding upon, honey.

A piece of melody; a song or tune, -- as opposed to recitative or musical declamation. A grace or embellishment.

A genus of labiate herbs, including the balm, or bee balm (Melissa officinalis).

Pertaining to, or derived from, beeswax; specif., denoting an acid obtained by oxidation of myricin.

See Myricyl.

See Melene.

A variety of sugar isomeric with sucrose, extracted from cotton seeds and from the so-called Australian manna (a secretion of certain species of Eucalyptus).

A mill.

A mellitate.

A m/l/e; a conflict.

See Mellitic.

Producing honey.

Producing honey.

The making or production of honey.

A flow of sweetness, or a sweet, smooth flow.

Flowing as with honey; smooth; mellifluous.

In a mellifluent manner.

Flowing as with honey; smooth; flowing sweetly or smoothly; as, a mellifluous voice.

Having the qualities of honey.

Honeydew.

Speaking sweetly or harmoniously.

See Meliphagan.

See Meliphagous.

A salt of mellitic acid.

A mineral of a honey color, found in brown coal, and partly the result of vegetable decomposition; honeystone. It is a mellitate of alumina.

Containing saccharine matter; marked by saccharine secretions; as, mellitic diabetes. Pertaining to, or derived from, the mineral mellite.

A yellow powder, C6H3N9, obtained from certain sulphocyanates. It has acid properties and forms compounds called mellonides.

See Mellone.

To become mellow; as, ripe fruit soon mellows.

having a mild and pleasing flavor through proper aging.

The act or process of acquiring desirable qualities by being left undisturbed for some time.

In a mellow manner.

Quality or state of being mellow.

Soft; unctuous.

A climbing plant (Ullucus officinalis) of the Andes, having tuberous roots which are used as a substitute for potatoes.

A mill.

A quince. A kind of peach having one side deep red, and the flesh yellow.

Of the nature of melody; relating to, containing, or made up of, melody; melodious.

The branch of musical science which treats of the pitch of tones, and of the laws of melody.

A contrivance for preserving a record of music, by recording the action of the keys of a musical instrument when played upon.

Containing, or producing, melody; musical; agreeable to the ear by a sweet succession of sounds; as, a melodious voice.

A composer or singer of melodies.

To make melody; to compose melodies; to harmonize.

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/.

Of or pertaining to melodrama; like or suitable to a melodrama; unnatural in situation or action.

One who acts in, or writes, melodramas.

Melodrama.

Same as Melodiograph.

A beetle belongoing to the family Meloidae.

A natural family of insects comprising the blister beetles.

A beetle of the genus Melolontha, and allied genera. See May beetle, under May.

A piano having a mechanical attachment which enables the player to prolong the notes at will.

Of or pertaining to meloplasty, or the artificial formation of a new cheek.

The process of restoring a cheek which has been destroyed wholly or in part.

The art of forming melody; melody; -- now often used for a melodic passage, rather than a complete melody.

A South American herb (Madia sativa) with sticky glandular foliage; it is a source of madia oil.

A genus of American song sparrows and swamp sparrows.

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.

The Muse of tragedy.

Honey of roses.

To be changed from a solid to a liquid state under the influence of heat; as, butter and wax melt at moderate temperatures.

Capable of being melted.

One who, or that which, melts.

Causing to melt; becoming melted; -- used literally or figuratively; as, a melting heat; a melting appeal; a melting mood.

A vessel in which anything is melted; a crucible.

A kind of stout woolen cloth with unfinished face and without raised nap. A commoner variety has a cotton warp.

One of a mixed white and Indian people living in parts of Tennessee and the Carolinas. They are descendants of early intermixtures of white settlers with natives. In North Carolina the Croatan Indians, regarded as descended from Raleigh's lost colony of Croatan, formerly classed with negroes, are now legally recognized as distinct.

A genus of mammals including the sloth bears; in some classifications not a separate genus from Ursus.

Herman Melville, American novelist, author of Moby Dick; b. 1819, d. 1891.

the 13th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.

Lady; mistress; -- used by Hindustani-speaking natives in India in addressing European women.

To remember; to cause to remember; to mention.

Having limbs; -- chiefly used in composition.

The state of being a member.

Relating to a member.

A thin layer or fold of tissue, usually supported by a fibrous network, serving to cover or line some part or organ, and often secreting or absorbing certain fluids.

See Membranous.

Having or producing membranes.

Having the form of a membrane or of parchment.

The science which treats of membranes.

Pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling, membrane; as, a membranous covering or lining.

A hint, suggestion, token, or memorial, to awaken memory; that which reminds or recalls to memory; a souvenir.

A small deerlet, or chevrotain, of India.

A celebrated Egyptian statue near Thebes, said to have the property of emitting a harplike sound at sunrise.

A writer of memoirs.

A memorial account; a history composed from personal experience and memory; an account of transactions or events (usually written in familiar style) as they are remembered by the writer. See History, 2.

Things remarkable and worthy of remembrance or record; also, the record of them.

The quality or state of being memorable.

Worthy to be remembered; very important or remarkable.

To commemorate.

Commemorative.

Memory.

Anything intended to preserve the memory of a person or event; something which serves to keep something else in remembrance; a monument.

Same as memorialize.

One who writes or signs a memorial.

To address or petition by a memorial; to present a memorial to; as, to memorialize the legislature.

One who petitions by a memorial.

One who, or that which, causes to be remembered.

By, or from, memory.

A person who learns by rote.

A native or resident of the city of Memphis in Tennessee.

A man; one; -- used with a verb in the singular, and corresponding to the present indefinite one or they.

One whose motive is to please men or the world, rather than God.

An iron-black or steel-gray mineral, consisting chiefly of the oxides of iron and titanium. It is commonly massive, but occurs also in rhombohedral crystals. Called also titanic iron ore, and ilmenite.

To act in threatening manner; to wear a threatening aspect.

One who menaces.

In a threatening manner.

A collection of animals; a menagerie.

A relationship involving three people, especially one in which three people live together and have sexual relations, such as a married couple and a lover of one of the pair.

A place where animals are kept and trained.