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Melopiano

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

Meloplastic

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

Meloplasty

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

Melopoeia

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

melosa

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

Melospiza

A genus of American song sparrows and swamp sparrows.

Melotype

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.

Melt

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

Melter

One who, or that which, melts.

Melting

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

Melting pot

A vessel in which anything is melted; a crucible.

Melton

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

Melungeon

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.

Melursus

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

Melville

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

mem

the 13th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.

mem-sahib memsahib

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

Member

To remember; to cause to remember; to mention.

Membered

Having limbs; -- chiefly used in composition.

Membrane

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.

Membranous

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

Memento

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

Meminna

A small deerlet, or chevrotain, of India.

Memnon

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

Memoirs Memoir

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.

memorabilia

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

Memorable

Worthy to be remembered; very important or remarkable.

Memorial

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

Memorialize

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

Memorist

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

Memphian

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

Men

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

Men-pleaser

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

Menaccanite

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.

Menace

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

menage

A collection of animals; a menagerie.

menage a trois menage-a-trois

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.

Menagerie

A place where animals are kept and trained.

Menaion

A work of twelve volumes, each containing the offices in the Greek Church for a month; also, each volume of the same.

Mend

To grow better; to advance to a better state; to become improved; to recover; to heal.

Mendacious

Given to deception or falsehood; lying; as, a mendacious person.

Mendacity

The quality or state of being mendacious; a habit of lying.

Mendel

Gregor Johann Mendel, founder of the science of genetics (1822-1884); Gregor Mendel.

mendelevium

an unstable radioactive element discovered in 1955 and produced artificially only in very small quantities; symbol Md (also Mv). It is a transuranic element with atomic number 101. Isotopes 255, 256, 257, and 258 have been prepared. Md258, the longest-lived, has a half-life of two months.

Mendelian

Pert. to Mendel, or to Mendel's law; as, Mendelian inheritance.

Mender

One who mends or repairs.

Mendicancy

The condition of being mendicant; beggary; begging.

Mendicant

A beggar; esp., one who makes a business of begging; specifically, a begging friar.

Mendication

The act or practice of begging; beggary; mendicancy.

Mendicity

The practice of begging; the life of a beggar; mendicancy.

menhaden

An American marine fish (Brevoortia tyrannus) of the Herring family (Clupeidae), chiefly valuable for its oil and as a component of fertilizers; -- called also mossbunker, bony fish, chebog, pogy, hardhead, whitefish, etc.

Menhir

A large stone set upright in olden times as a memorial or monument. Many, of unknown date, are found in Brittany and throughout Northern Europe.

Menial

A domestic servant or retainer, esp. one of humble rank; one employed in low or servile offices.

Meninges

The three membranes that envelop the brain and spinal cord; the pia mater, dura mater, and arachnoid membrane.

Meningitis

Inflammation of the membranes of the brain or spinal cord.

Meniscal

Pertaining to, or having the form of, a meniscus.

Menispermaceous

Pertaining to a natural order (Menispermaceae) of climbing plants of which moonseed (Menispermum) is the type.

Menispermic

Pertaining to, or obtained from, moonseed (Menispermum), or other plants of the same family, as the Anamirta Cocculus.

Menispermine

An alkaloid distinct from picrotoxin and obtained from the cocculus indicus (the fruit of Anamirta Cocculus, formerly Menispermum Cocculus) as a white, crystalline, tasteless powder; -- called also menispermina.

Mennonite Mennonist

One of a small denomination of Christians, so called from Menno Simons of Friesland, their founder. They believe that the New Testament is the only rule of faith, that there is no original sin, that infants should not be baptized, and that Christians ought not to take oath, hold office, or render military service.

Menopause

The period of natural cessation of menstruation. See Change of life, under Change.

Menorrhagia

Profuse menstruation. Any profuse bleeding from the uterus; Metrorrhagia.

Mensal

Occurring once in a month; monthly.

Menses

The catamenial or menstrual discharge, a periodic flow of blood or bloody fluid from the uterus or female generative organs.

Menstrual

Recurring once a month; monthly; gone through in a month; as, the menstrual revolution of the moon; pertaining to monthly changes; as, the menstrual equation of the sun's place.

Menstruate

To discharge the menses; to have the catamenial flow.

menstruating

discharging menstrual fluid; -- of women during their menstrual period.

Menstruation

The discharge of the menses; also, the state or the period of menstruating.

Menstruous

Having the monthly flow or discharge; menstruating.

Menstruum

Any substance which dissolves a solid body; a solvent.

Mensurableness

The quality or state of being mensurable; measurableness.

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