Mei"o*cene (?), a. (Geol.) See Miocene.
Mei"o*nite (?), n. [Gr. mei`wn smaller. So called in a allusion to the
low pyramids of the crystals.] (Min.) A member of the scapolite group,
occuring in glassy crystals on Monte Somma, near Naples.
||Mei*o"sis (m*"ss), n. [NL., fr. Gr. mei`wsis, fr. meioy^n to make
||smaller, from mei`wn. See Meionite.] (Rhet.) Diminution; a species of
||hyperbole, representing a thing as being less than it really is.
Mei`o*stem"o*nous (?), a. [Gr. mei`wn smaller + &?; warp, thread.]
(Bot.) Having fever stamens than the parts of the corolla.
||Meis"ter*sing`er (?), n. [G.] See Mastersinger.
Mekh"i*tar*ist (?), n. (Eccl. Hist.) See Mechitarist.
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.