Mel`a*nis"tic (?), a. Affected with melanism; of the nature of
melanism.
Mel"a*nite (?), n. [Gr. me`las, -anos, black: cf. F. mélanite.] (Min.)
A black variety of garnet.
||Mel`a*noch"ro*i (?), n. pl. [NL. See Melanochroic.] (Ethnol.) A group
||of the human race, including the dark whites.
Mel`a*no*chro"ic (?), a. [Gr. melana`chroos; me`las, -anos, black +
chroa` color.] Having a dark complexion; of or pertaining to the
Melanochroi.
Mel`a*no*chro"ite (?), n. [See Melanochroic.] (Min.) A mineral of a
red, or brownish or yellowish red color. It is a chromate of lead; --
called also phœnicocroite.
Mel`a*noc"o*mous (?), a. [Gr. me`las, -anos, black + &?; hair.] Having
very dark or black hair; black-haired. Prichard.
||Mel`a*nor*rhœ"a (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. me`las, -anos, black + &?; to
||flow.] (Bot.) An East Indian genus of large trees. Melanorrhœa
||usitatissima is the lignum-vitæ of Pegu, and yields a valuable black
||varnish.
Me*lan"o*scope (?), n. [Gr. me`las, -anos, black + -scope.] (Opt.) An
instrument containing a combination of colored glasses such that they
transmit only red light, so that objects of other colors, as green
leaves, appear black when seen through it. It is used for viewing
colored flames, to detect the presence of potassium, lithium, etc., by
the red light which they emit.
||Mel`a*no"sis (?), [NL., fr. Gr. &?; a growing black, fr. me`las,
||-anos, black.] (Med.) The morbid deposition of black matter, often of
||a malignant character, causing pigmented tumors.
Me*lan"o*sperm (?), n. [Gr. me`las, -anos, black + spe`rma seed.]
(Bot.) An alga of any kind that produces blackish spores, or seed dust.
The melanosperms include the rockweeds and all kinds of kelp. --
Mel`a*no*sper"mous (#), a.
Mel`a*not"ic (?), a. Melanistic.
Me*lan"o*type (?), n. [Gr. me`las, -anos, black + -type.] (Photog.) A
positive picture produced with sensitized collodion on a smooth surface
of black varnish, coating a thin plate of iron; also, the process of
making such a picture. [Written also melainotype.]
Me*lan"ter*ite (?), n. (Min.) A hydrous sulphate of iron of a green
color and vitreous luster; iron vitriol.
Mel"a*nure (?), n. [NL. melanurus, fr. Gr. me`las, -anos, black +
o'ura` tail.] (Zoöl.) A small fish of the Mediterranean; a gilthead.
See Gilthead (a).
Mel`a*nu"ric (?), a. [Melam + urea.] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or
designating, a complex nitrogenous acid obtained by decomposition of
melam, or of urea, as a white crystalline powder; -- called also
melanurenic acid.
Mel"a*phyre (?), n. [F., fr. Gr. me`las, -anos, black + porphyre
porphyry.] (Min.) Any one of several dark-colored augitic, eruptive
rocks allied to basalt.
||Me*las"ma (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; black spot.] (Med.) A dark
||discoloration of the skin, usually local; as, Addison's melasma, or
||Addison's disease. -- Me*las"mic (#), a.
Me*las"ses (?), n. See Molasses.
Me*las"sic (?), a. [See Molasses.] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or
designating, an acid obtained from molasses or glucose, and probably
identical with saccharic acid. See Saccharic.
||Me*las"to*ma (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. me`las black + sto`ma mouth.]
||(Bot.) A genus of evergreen tropical shrubs; -- so called from the
||black berries of some species, which stain the mouth.
Mel`a*sto*ma"ceous (?), a. (Bot.) Belonging to the order of which
Melastoma is the type.
Mel"chite (?), n. [Heb. melek king.] (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect,
chiefly in Syria and Egypt, which acknowledges the authority of the
pope, but adheres to the liturgy and ceremonies of the Eastern Church.
Mel`e*a"grine (?), a. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the genus Meleagris.
||Mel`e*a"gris (?), n. [L., the Guinea fowl.] (Zoöl.) A genus of
||American gallinaceous birds, including the common and the wild
||turkeys.
||Mê`lée" (m`l"), n. [F., fr. mêler to mix. See Meddle, Mell, and cf.
||Mellay.] A fight in which the combatants are mingled in one confused
||mass; a hand to hand conflict; an affray.
||Me*le"na (?), n. (Med.) See Melæna.
Mel"ene (?), n. [Melissic + ethylene.] (Chem.) An unsaturated
hydrocarbon, C30H60, of the ethylene series, obtained from beeswax as a
white, scaly, crystalline wax; -- called also melissene, and
melissylene.
Mel"e*nite (?), n. [Gr. me`li honey.] An explosive of great destructive
power; -- so called from its color, which resembles honey.
Mel"e*tin (?), n. (Chem.) See Quercitin.
Me*lez"i*tose` (?), n. [F. mélèze the larch + melitose.] (Chem.) A
variety of sugar, isomeric with sucrose, extracted from the manna of
the larch (Larix). [Written also melicitose.]
Me`li*a"ceous (?), a. (Bot.) Pertaining to a natural order (Meliacæ) of
plants of which the genus Melia is the type. It includes the mahogany
and the Spanish cedar.
{ Mel`i*be"an (?), Mel`i*b&?;"an }, a. [From L. Meliboeus, one of the
interlocutors in Virgil's first Eclogue.] (Rhet.) Alternately
responsive, as verses.
Mel"ic (?), [Gr. &?;, fr. &?; song.] Of or pertaining to song; lyric;
tuneful.
Me*lic"er*ous (?), a. [L. meliceris a kind of tumor, fr. Gr. &?;; me`li
honey + &?; wax.] (Med.) Consisting of or containing matter like honey;
-- said of certain encysted tumors.
Mel"ic grass` (?). (Bot.) A genus of grasses (Melica) of little
agricultural importance.
Mel`i*co*toon" (?), n. (Bot.) See Melocoton.