Melancholious
(Mel`an*cho"li*ous) a. [Cf. OF. melancholieux.] Melancholy. [R.] Milton.
Melancholist
(Mel"an*chol*ist) n. One affected with melancholy or dejection. [Obs.] Glanvill.
Melancholize
(Mel"an*cho*lize) v. i. To become gloomy or dejected in mind. Barrow.
Melancholize
(Mel"an*cho*lize), v. t. To make melancholy.
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.
Melancholy
(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-spirited; downhearted; unhappy; hypochondriac; disconsolate; heavy,
doleful; dismal; calamitous; afflictive.
Melanesian
(Mel`a*ne"sian) a. [Gr. me`las, -anos, black + island. Melanesia was so called from the
dark complexion of the natives.] Of or pertaining to Melanesia.
Mélange
(||Mé`lange") n. [F. See Mell, Meddle.] A mixture; a medley.
Melanian
(Me*la"ni*an) n. (Zoöl.) One of a family of fresh-water pectinibranchiate mollusks, having a
turret-shaped shell.
Melanic
(Me*lan"ic) a. [Gr. me`las, -anos, black.]
1. Melanotic.
2. (Ethnol.) Of or pertaining to the black-haired races. Prichard.
Melaniline
(Me*lan"i*line) n. (Chem.) A complex nitrogenous hydrocarbon obtained artificially (as by
the action of cyanogen chloride on aniline) as a white, crystalline substance; — called also diphenyl
guanidin.
Melanin
(Mel"a*nin) n. [Gr. me`las, -anos, black.] (Physiol.) A black pigment found in the pigment-
bearing cells of the skin in the epithelial cells of the external layer of the retina in the outer layer of the
choroid, and elsewhere. It is supposed to be derived from the decomposition of hemoglobin.
Melanism
(Mel"a*nism) n. [Gr. me`las, -anos, black.]
