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Me*lac"o*nite (?), n. [Gr. me`las black + &?; dust.] (Min.) An earthy black oxide of copper, arising from the decomposition of other ores.

{ ||Me*la"da (?), ||Me*la"do (?), } n. [Sp., prop. p. p. of melar to sugar, candy, fr. L. mel honey. See Molasses.] A mixture of sugar and molasses; crude sugar as it comes from the pans without being drained.

||Me*læ"na (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. me`las, m., me`laina, f., black.] ||(Med.) A discharge from the bowels of black matter, consisting of ||altered blood.

Mel"ain (?), n. [See Melæna.] The dark coloring matter of the liquid of the cuttlefish.

Me*lai"no*type (?), n. See Melanotype.

Me"lam (m"lm), n. [Cf. F. mélam.] (Chem.) A white or buff-colored granular powder, C6H9N11, obtained by heating ammonium sulphocyanate.

Me*lam"ine (?), n. (Chem.) A strong nitrogenous base, C3H6N6, produced from several cyanogen compounds, and obtained as a white crystalline substance, -- formerly supposed to be produced by the decomposition of melam. Called also cyanuramide.

Mel"am*pode (?), n. [Gr. melampo`dion; of uncertain origin.] The black hellebore. [Obs.] Spenser.

{ Mel`am*py"rin (?), Mel`am*py"rite (?), } n. [NL. Melampyrum cowwheat; Gr. me`las black + pyro`s wheat.] (Chem.) The saccharine substance dulcite; -- so called because found in the leaves of cowwheat (Melampyrum). See Dulcite.

||Mel`a*næ"mi*a (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. me`las, -anos, black + a"i^ma ||blood.] (Med.) A morbid condition in which the blood contains black ||pigment either floating freely or imbedded in the white blood ||corpuscles.

Me*lan"a*gogue (?), n. [Gr. me`las, -anos, black + &?; leading, driving, &?; to lead.] (Med.) A medicine supposed to expel black bile or choler. [Obs.]

||Mel`an*cho"li*a (?), n. [L. See Melancholy.] (Med.) A kind of mental ||unsoundness characterized by extreme depression of spirits, ||ill-grounded fears, delusions, and brooding over one particular ||subject or train of ideas.

Mel`an*cho"li*an (?), n. A person affected with melancholy; a melancholic. [Obs.] Dr. J. Scott.

Mel"an*chol`ic (?), a. [L. melancholicus, Gr. &?;: cf. F. mélancholique.] Given to melancholy; depressed; melancholy; dejected; unhappy.

Just as the melancholic eye Sees fleets and armies in the sky.

Prior.

Mel"an*chol`ic, n. [Obs.] 1. One affected with a gloomy state of mind. J. Spenser.

2. A gloomy state of mind; melancholy. Clarendon.

Mel"an*chol`i*ly (?), adv. In a melancholy manner.

Mel"an*chol`i*ness, n. The state or quality of being melancholy. Hallywell.

Mel`an*cho"li*ous (?), a. [Cf. OF. melancholieux.] Melancholy. [R.] Milton.

Mel"an*chol*ist (?), n. One affected with melancholy or dejection. [Obs.] Glanvill.

Mel"an*cho*lize (?), v. i. To become gloomy or dejected in mind. Barrow.

Mel"an*cho*lize, v. t. To make melancholy.

Mel"an*chol*y (?), n. [OE. melancolie, F. mélancolie, L. melancholia, fr. Gr. &?;; me`las, -anos, black + &?; gall, bile. See Malice, and 1st Gall.]

1. Depression of spirits; a gloomy state continuing a considerable time; deep dejection; gloominess. Shak.

2. Great and continued depression of spirits, amounting to mental unsoundness; melancholia.

3. Pensive maditation; serious thoughtfulness. [Obs.] "Hail, divinest Melancholy !" Milton.

4. Ill nature. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Mel"an*chol*y, a. 1. Depressed in spirits; dejected; gloomy dismal. Shak.

2. Producing great evil and grief; causing dejection; calamitous; afflictive; as, a melancholy event.

3. Somewhat deranged in mind; having the jugment impaired. [Obs.] Bp. Reynolds.

4. Favorable to meditation; somber.

A pretty, melancholy seat, well wooded and watered.

Evelin.

Syn. -- Gloomy; sad; dispirited; low-