MEDDLE — MELLOWNESS NWAD MEDDLE.1

MEDDLE, v.i. NWAD MEDDLE.1

1. To have to do; to take part; to interpose and act in the concerns of others, or in affairs in which one’s interposition is not necessary; often with the sense of intrusion or officiousness. NWAD MEDDLE.2

I have thus far been an upright judge, not meddling with the design nor disposition. NWAD MEDDLE.3

What hast thou to do to meddle with the affairs of my family? NWAD MEDDLE.4

Why should’st thou meddle to thy hurt? 2 Kings 14:10. NWAD MEDDLE.5

2. To have to do; to touch; to handle. Meddle not with edge-tools, is an admonition to children. When the object is specified, meddle is properly followed by with or in; usually by the former. NWAD MEDDLE.6

The civil lawyers--have meddled in a matter that belongs not to them. NWAD MEDDLE.7

MEDDLE, v.t. To mix, to mingle. NWAD MEDDLE.8

He meddled his talk with many a tear. NWAD MEDDLE.9

MEDDLER, n. One that meddles; one that interferes or busies himself with things in which he has no concern; an officious person; a busy body. NWAD MEDDLER.1

MEDDLESOME, a. Given to meddling; apt to interpose in the affairs of others; officiously intrusive. NWAD MEDDLESOME.1

MEDDLESOMENESS, n. Officious interposition in the affairs of others. NWAD MEDDLESOMENESS.1

MEDDLING, ppr. Having to do; touching; handling; officiously interposing in other men’s concerns. NWAD MEDDLING.1

1. a. Officious; busy in other men’s affairs; as a meddling neighbor. NWAD MEDDLING.2

MEDIAL, a. [L. medius, middle.] Mean; noting a mean or average. NWAD MEDIAL.1

Medial alligation, is a method of finding the mean rate or value of a mixture consisting of two or more ingredients of different quantities and values. In this case, the quantity and value of each ingredient are given. NWAD MEDIAL.2

MEDIANT, n. In music, an appellation given to the third above the key-note, because it divides the interval between the tonic and dominant into thirds. NWAD MEDIANT.1

MEDIATE, a. [L. medius, middle.] Middle; being between the two extremes. NWAD MEDIATE.1

Anxious we hover in a mediate state. NWAD MEDIATE.2

1. Interposed; intervening; being between two objects. NWAD MEDIATE.3

Soon the mediate clouds shall be dispelled. NWAD MEDIATE.4

2. Acting by means, or by an intervening cause or instrument. Thus we speak of mediate and immediate cause of its motion; the oar with which a man rows a boat is the immediate cause of its motion; but the rower is the mediate cause, acting by means of the oar. NWAD MEDIATE.5

MEDIATE, v.i. To interpose between parties, as the equal friend of each; to act indifferently between contending parties, with a view to reconciliation; to intercede. The prince that mediates between nations and prevents a war, is the benefactor of both parties. NWAD MEDIATE.6

1. To be between two. [Little used.] NWAD MEDIATE.7

MEDIATE, v.t. To effect by mediation or interposition between parties; as, to mediate a peace. NWAD MEDIATE.8

1. To limit by something in the middle. [Not used.] NWAD MEDIATE.9

MEDIATELY, adv. By means or by a secondary cause, acting between the first cause and the effect. NWAD MEDIATELY.1

God worketh all things amongst us mediately, by secondary means. NWAD MEDIATELY.2

The king grants a manor to A, and A grants a portion of it to B. In this case, B holds his lands immediately of A, but mediately of the king. NWAD MEDIATELY.3

MEDIATION, n. [L. medius, middle.] NWAD MEDIATION.1

1. Interposition; intervention; agency between parties at variance, with a view to reconcile them. The contentions of individuals and families are often terminated by the mediation of friends. The controversies of nations are sometimes adjusted by mediation. The reconciliation of sinners to God by the mediation of Christ, is a glorious display of divine benevolence. NWAD MEDIATION.2

2. Agency interposed; intervenient power. NWAD MEDIATION.3

The soul, during its residence in the body, does all things by the mediation of the passions. NWAD MEDIATION.4

3. Intercession; entreaty for another. NWAD MEDIATION.5

MEDIATOR, n. One that interposes between parties at variance for the purpose of reconciling them. NWAD MEDIATOR.1

1. By way of eminence, Christ is the mediator, the divine intercessor through whom sinners may be reconciled to an offended God. 1 Timothy 2:5. NWAD MEDIATOR.2

Christ is a mediator by nature, as partaking of both natures divine and human; and mediator by office, as transacting matters between God and man. NWAD MEDIATOR.3

MEDIATORIAL, a. Belonging to a mediator; as mediatorial office or character. [Mediatory is not used.] NWAD MEDIATORIAL.1

MEDIATORSHIP, n. The office of a mediator. NWAD MEDIATORSHIP.1

MEDIATRESS, MEDIATRIX, n. A female mediator. NWAD MEDIATRESS.1

MEDIC, n. A plant of the genus Medicago. The sea-medic is of the same genus; the medic vetch is of the genus Hedysarum. NWAD MEDIC.1

MEDICABLE, a. [See Medical.] That may be cured or healed. NWAD MEDICABLE.1

MEDICAL, a. [L. medicus, from medcor, to heal; Gr. cure.] NWAD MEDICAL.1

1. Pertaining to the art of healing diseases; as the medical profession; medical services. NWAD MEDICAL.2

2. Medicinal; containing that which heals; tending to cure; as the medical properties of a plant. NWAD MEDICAL.3

MEDICALLY, adv. In the manner of medicine; according to the rules of the healing art, or for the purpose of healing; as a simple or mineral medically used or applied. NWAD MEDICALLY.1

1. In relation to the healing art; as a plant medically considered. NWAD MEDICALLY.2

MEDICAMENT, n. [L. medicamentum.] Any thing used for healing diseases or wounds; a medicine; a healing application. NWAD MEDICAMENT.1

MEDICAMENTAL, a. Relating to healing applications; having the qualities of medicaments. NWAD MEDICAMENTAL.1

MEDICAMENTALLY, adv. After the manner of healing applications. NWAD MEDICAMENTALLY.1

MEDICASTER, n. A quack. NWAD MEDICASTER.1

MEDICATE, v.t. [L. medico.] To tincture or impregnate with healing substances, or with any thing medicinal. NWAD MEDICATE.1

MEDICATED, pp. Prepared or furnished with any thing medicinal. NWAD MEDICATED.1

MEDICATING, ppr. Impregnating with medical substances; preparing with any thing medicinal. NWAD MEDICATING.1

MEDICATION, n. The act or process of impregnating with medicinal substances; the infusion of medicinal virtues. NWAD MEDICATION.1

1. The use of medicine. NWAD MEDICATION.2

MEDICINABLE, a. Having the properties of medicine; medicinal. [The latter is the word now used.] NWAD MEDICINABLE.1

MEDICINAL, [L. medicinalis.] Having the property of healing or of mitigating disease; adapted to the cure or alleviation of bodily disorders; as medicinal plants, medicinal virtues of minerals; medicinal springs. The waters of Saratoga and Ballston are remarkably medicinal. NWAD MEDICINAL.1

1. Pertaining to medicine; as medicinal days or hours. NWAD MEDICINAL.2

MEDICINALLY, adv. In the manner of medicine; with medicinal qualities. NWAD MEDICINALLY.1

1. With a view to healing; as, to use a mineral medicinally. NWAD MEDICINALLY.2

MEDICINE, n. [L. medicina, from medeor, to cure; vulgarly and improperly pronounced med’sn.] NWAD MEDICINE.1

1. Any substance, liquid or solid, that has the property of curing or mitigating disease in animals, or that is used for that purpose. Simples, plants and minerals furnish most of our medicines. Even poisons used with judgment and in moderation, are safe and efficacious medicines. Medicines are internal or external, simple or compound. NWAD MEDICINE.2

2. The art of preventing, curing or alleviating the diseases of the human body. Hence we say, the study of medicine, or a student of medicine. NWAD MEDICINE.3

3. In the French sense, a physician. [Not in use.] NWAD MEDICINE.4

MEDICINE, v.t. To affect or operate on as medicine. [Not used.] NWAD MEDICINE.5

MEDIETY, n. [L. medietas; from L. medius, middle.] NWAD MEDIETY.1

The middle state or part; half; moiety. [Little used.] NWAD MEDIETY.2

MEDIN, n. A small coin. NWAD MEDIN.1

MEDIOCRAL, a. [L. mediocris.] Being of a middle quality; indifferent; ordinary; as mediocral intellect. [Rare.] NWAD MEDIOCRAL.1

MEDIOCRIST, n. A person of middling abilities. [Not used.] NWAD MEDIOCRIST.1

MEDIOCRITY, n. [L. mediocritas, from mediocris, middling; medius, middle.] NWAD MEDIOCRITY.1

1. A middle state or degree; a moderate degree or rate. A mediocrity of condition is most favorable to morals and happiness. A mediocrity of talents well employed will generally ensure respectability. NWAD MEDIOCRITY.2

Men of age seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. NWAD MEDIOCRITY.3

2. Moderation; temperance. NWAD MEDIOCRITY.4

We owe obedience to the law of reason, which teacheth mediocrity in meats and drinks. NWAD MEDIOCRITY.5

MEDITATE, v.i. [L. meditor.] NWAD MEDITATE.1

1. To dwell on any thing in thought; to contemplate; to study; to turn or revolve any subject in the mind; appropriately but not exclusively used of pious contemplation, or a consideration of the great truths of religion. NWAD MEDITATE.2

His delight is in the law of the Lord, and in his law doth he meditate day and night. Psalm 1:2. NWAD MEDITATE.3

2. To intend; to have in contemplation. NWAD MEDITATE.4

I meditate to pass the remainder of life in a state of undisturbed repose. NWAD MEDITATE.5

MEDITATE, v.t. To plan by revolving in the mind; to contrive; to intend. NWAD MEDITATE.6

Some affirmed that I meditated a war. NWAD MEDITATE.7

1. To think on; to revolve in the mind. NWAD MEDITATE.8

Blessed is the man that doth meditate good things. NWAD MEDITATE.9

MEDITATED, pp. Planned; contrived. NWAD MEDITATED.1

MEDITATING, ppr. Revolving in the mind; contemplating; contriving. NWAD MEDITATING.1

MEDITATION, n. [L. meditatio.] Close or continued thought; the turning or revolving of a subject in the mind; serious contemplation. NWAD MEDITATION.1

Let the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength and my Redeemer. Psalm 19:14. NWAD MEDITATION.2

MEDITATIVE, a. Addicted to meditation. NWAD MEDITATIVE.1

1. Expressing meditation or design. NWAD MEDITATIVE.2

MEDITERRANE, MEDITERRANEAN, MEDITERRANEOUS, a. [L. medius, middle, and terra, land.] NWAD MEDITERRANE.1

1. Inclosed or nearly inclosed with land; as the Mediterranean sea, between Europe and Africa. [Mediterrane is not used.] NWAD MEDITERRANE.2

2. Inland; remote from the ocean or sea; as mediterraneous mountains. NWAD MEDITERRANE.3

MEDIUM, n. plu. mediums; media not being generally, though sometimes used. [L.] In philosophy, the space or substance through which a body moves or passes to any point. Thus either is supposed to be the medium through which the planets move; air is the medium through which bodies move near the earth; water the medium in which fishes live and move; glass a medium through which light passes; and we speak of a resisting medium, a refracting medium, etc. NWAD MEDIUM.1

1. In logic, the mean or middle term of a syllogism, or the middle term in an argument, being the reason why a thing is affirmed or denied. NWAD MEDIUM.2

Nothing can be honorable that violates moral principle. NWAD MEDIUM.3

Dueling violates moral principle. NWAD MEDIUM.4

Therefore dueling is not honorable. NWAD MEDIUM.5

Here the second term is the medium, mean, or middle term. NWAD MEDIUM.6

2. Arithmetical medium, that which is equally distant from each extreme, or which exceeds the lesser extreme as much as it is exceeded by the greater, in respect of quantity, not of proportion. Thus, 9 is a medium between 6 and 12. NWAD MEDIUM.7

3. Geometrical medium, is that wherein the same ratio is preserved between the first and second terms, as between the second and third. Thus, 6 is a geometrical medium between 4 and 9. NWAD MEDIUM.8

In the three last senses or applications, mean is more generally used for medium. NWAD MEDIUM.9

4. The means or instrument by which any thing is accomplished, conveyed or carried on. Thus money is the medium of commerce; coin is the common medium of trade among all civilized nations, but wampum is the medium of trade among the Indian tribes, and bills of credit or bank notes are often used as mediums of trade in the place of gold and silver. Intelligence is communicated through the medium of the press. NWAD MEDIUM.10

5. The middle place or degree; the mean. NWAD MEDIUM.11

The just medium of this case lies between pride and abjection. NWAD MEDIUM.12

6. A kind of printing paper of middle size. NWAD MEDIUM.13

MEDLAR, n. [L. mespilus.] A tree and a genus of trees, called Mespilus; also, the fruit of the tree. The German or common medlar is cultivated in gardens for its fruit. NWAD MEDLAR.1

MEDLE, v.t. To mix; not used, but hence, NWAD MEDLE.1

MEDLEY, n. A mixture; a mingled and confused mass of ingredients; used often or commonly with some degree of contempt. NWAD MEDLEY.1

This medley of philosophy and war. NWAD MEDLEY.2

Love is a medley of endearments, jars, suspicions, reconcilements, wars--then peace again. NWAD MEDLEY.3

MEDLEY, a. Mingled; confused. [Little used.] NWAD MEDLEY.4

MEDULLAR, MEDULLARY, a. [L. medullaris, from medulla, marrow.] NWAD MEDULLAR.1

Pertaining to marrow; consisting of marrow; resembling marrow; as medullary substance. NWAD MEDULLAR.2

MEDULLIN, n. [L. medulla.] The pith of the sunflower, which has neither taste nor smell. It is insoluble in water, ether, alcohol and oils, but soluble in nitric acid, and instead of yielding suberic acid, it yields the oxalic. NWAD MEDULLIN.1

MEED, n. NWAD MEED.1

1. Reward; recompense; that which is bestowed or rendered in consideration of merit. NWAD MEED.2

Thanks to men NWAD MEED.3

Of noble minds is honorable meed. NWAD MEED.4

2. A gift or present. [Not used.] NWAD MEED.5

MEEK, a. [L. mucus; Eng. mucilage; Heb. to melt.] NWAD MEEK.1

1. Mild of temper; soft; gentle; not easily provoked or irritated; yielding; given to forbearance under injuries. NWAD MEEK.2

Now the man Moses was very meek, above all men. Numbers 12:3. NWAD MEEK.3

2. Appropriately, humble, in an evangelical sense; submissive to the divine will; not proud, self-sufficient or refractory; not peevish and apt to complain of divine dispensations. Christ says, “Learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and ye shall find rest to your souls.” Matthew 11:29. NWAD MEEK.4

Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. Matthew 5:5. NWAD MEEK.5

MEEKEN, v.t. mee’kn. To make meek; to soften; to render mild. NWAD MEEKEN.1

MEEKLY, adv. Mildly; gently; submissively; humbly; not proudly or roughly. NWAD MEEKLY.1

And this mis-seeming discord meekly lay aside. NWAD MEEKLY.2

MEEKNESS, n. Softness of temper; mildness; gentleness; forbearance under injuries and provocations. NWAD MEEKNESS.1

1. In an evangelical sense, humility; resignation; submission to the divine will, without murmuring or peevishness; opposed to pride, arrogance and refractoriness. Galatians 5:23. NWAD MEEKNESS.2

I beseech you by the meekness of Christ. 2 Corinthians 10:1. NWAD MEEKNESS.3

Meekness is a grace which Jesus alone inculcated, and which no ancient philosopher seems to have understood or recommended. NWAD MEEKNESS.4

MEER, a. Simple; unmixed; usually written mere. NWAD MEER.1

MEER, n. A lake; a boundary. [See Mere.] NWAD MEER.2

MEERED, a. Relating to a boundary. [See Mere.] NWAD MEERED.1

MEER-SCHAUM, n. A hydrate of magnesia combined with silex. It occurs in beds in Natolia, and when first taken out, is soft, and makes lather like soap. It is manufactured into tobacco pipes, which are boiled in oil or wax, and baked. NWAD MEER-SCHAUM.1

MEET, a. [L. convenio.] Fit; suitable; proper; qualified; convenient; adapted, as to a use or purpose. NWAD MEET.1

Ye shall pass over armed before your brethren, the children of Israel, all that are meet for the war. Deuteronomy 3:18. NWAD MEET.2

It was meet that we should make merry-- Luke 15:32. NWAD MEET.3

Bring forth fruits meet for repentance. Matthew 3:8. NWAD MEET.4

MEET, v.t. pret. and pp. met. [Gr. with.] NWAD MEET.5

1. To come together, approaching in opposite or different directions; to come face to face; as, to meet a man in the road. NWAD MEET.6

His daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances. Judges 11:34. NWAD MEET.7

2. To come together in any place; as, we met many strangers at the levee. NWAD MEET.8

3. To come together in hostility; to encounter. The armies met on the plains of Pharsalia. NWAD MEET.9

4. To encounter unexpectedly. NWAD MEET.10

5. To come together in extension; to come in contact; to join. The line A meets the line B and forms an angle. NWAD MEET.11

6. To come to; to find; to light on; to receive. The good man meets his reward; the criminal in due time meets the punishment he deserves. NWAD MEET.12

Of vice or virtue, whether blest or curst, NWAD MEET.13

Which meets contempt, or which compassion first. NWAD MEET.14

MEET, v.i. To come together or to approach near, or into company with. How pleasant it is for friends to meet on the road; still more pleasant to meet in a foreign country. NWAD MEET.15

1. To come together in hostility; to encounter. The armies met at Waterloo, and decided the fate of Buonaparte. NWAD MEET.16

2. To assemble; to congregate. The council met at 10 o’clock. The legislature will meet on the first Wednesday in the month. NWAD MEET.17

3. To come together by being extended; to come in contact; to join. Two converging lines will meet in a point. NWAD MEET.18

To meet with; to light on; to find; to come to; often with the sense of an unexpected event. NWAD MEET.19

We met with many things worthy of observation. NWAD MEET.20

1. To join; to unite in company. NWAD MEET.21

Falstaff at that oak shall meet with us. NWAD MEET.22

2. To suffer unexpectedly; as, to meet with a fall; to meet with a loss. NWAD MEET.23

3. To encounter; to engage in opposition. NWAD MEET.24

Royal mistress, NWAD MEET.25

Prepare to meet with more than brutal fury NWAD MEET.26

From the fierce prince. NWAD MEET.27

4. To obviate; a Latinism. NWAD MEET.28

To meet half way, to approach from an equal distance and meet; metaphorically, to make mutual and equal concessions, each party renouncing some pretensions. NWAD MEET.29

MEETER, n. One that meets another; one that accosts another. NWAD MEETER.1

MEETING, ppr. Coming together; encountering; joining; assembling. NWAD MEETING.1

MEETING, n. A coming together; an interview; as a happy meeting of friends. NWAD MEETING.2

1. An assembly; a congregation; a collection of people; a convention. The meeting was numerous; the meeting was clamorous; the meeting was dissolved at sunset. NWAD MEETING.3

2. A conflux, as of rivers; a joining, as of lines. NWAD MEETING.4

MEETING-HOUSE, a. A place of worship; a church. NWAD MEETING-HOUSE.1

MEETLY, adv. [from meet.] Fitly; suitably; properly. NWAD MEETLY.1

MEETNESS, n. [from meet.] Fitness; suitableness; propriety. NWAD MEETNESS.1

MEGACOSM, n. [Gr. great, and world.] The great world. NWAD MEGACOSM.1

MEGALONYX, n. [Gr. great, and a nail.] An animal now extinct, whose bones have been found in Virginia. NWAD MEGALONYX.1

MEGALOPOLIS, n. [Gr. great, and city.] NWAD MEGALOPOLIS.1

A chief city; a metropolis. [Not in use.] NWAD MEGALOPOLIS.2

MEGATHERIUM, MEGATHERY, n. [Gr. great, and a wild beast.] A quadruped now extinct, but whose remains have been found in South America. It was larger than the megalonyx. NWAD MEGATHERIUM.1

MEGRIM, n. [L. hemicrania, half the head.] Properly, a pain in the side of the head; hence, a disorder of the head; vertigo. NWAD MEGRIM.1

MEINE, v.t. To mingle. NWAD MEINE.1

MEINE, MENY, n. [See Menial.] A retinue or family of servants; domestics. NWAD MEINE.2

MEIONITE, n. [Gr. less; from its low pyramids.] pyramidical feldspar, of a grayish white color. It occurs massive and crystallized. NWAD MEIONITE.1

MEIOSIS, n. [Gr.] Diminution; a rhetorical figure, a species of hyperbole, representing a thing less than it is. NWAD MEIOSIS.1

MELAMPODE, n. [Gr. blackfoot.] The black hellebore. NWAD MELAMPODE.1

MELANAGOGUE, n. melan’agog. [Gr. black, and to drive.] NWAD MELANAGOGUE.1

A medicine supposed to expel black bile or choler. NWAD MELANAGOGUE.2

MELANCHOLIC, a. [See Melancholy.] NWAD MELANCHOLIC.1

1. Depressed in spirits; affected with gloom; dejected; hypochondriac. Grief indulged to excess, has a tendency to render a person melancholic. NWAD MELANCHOLIC.2

2. Produced by melancholy; expressive of melancholy; mournful; as melancholic strains. NWAD MELANCHOLIC.3

Just as the melancholic eye, NWAD MELANCHOLIC.4

See fleets and armies in the sky. NWAD MELANCHOLIC.5

3. Unhappy; unfortunate; causing sorrow; as accidents and melancholic perplexities. NWAD MELANCHOLIC.6

MELANCHOLIC, n. One affected with a gloomy state of mind. [Melancholian, in a like sense, is not used.] NWAD MELANCHOLIC.7

1. A gloomy state of mind. NWAD MELANCHOLIC.8

MELANCHOLILY, adv. With melancholy. NWAD MELANCHOLILY.1

MELANCHOLINESS, n. State of being melancholy; disposition to indulge gloominess of mind. NWAD MELANCHOLINESS.1

MELANCHOLIOUS, a. Gloomy. [Not in use.] NWAD MELANCHOLIOUS.1

MELANCHOLIST, n. One affected with melancholy. NWAD MELANCHOLIST.1

MELANCHOLIZE, v.i. To become gloomy in mind. NWAD MELANCHOLIZE.1

MELANCHOLIZE, v.t. To make melancholy. NWAD MELANCHOLIZE.2

[This verb is rarely or never used.] NWAD MELANCHOLIZE.3

MELANCHOLY, n. [Gr. black, and bile; L. melancholia.] NWAD MELANCHOLY.1

1. A gloomy state of mind, often a gloomy state that is of some continuance, or habitual; depression of spirits induced by grief; dejection of spirits. This was formerly supposed to proceed from a redundance of black bile. Melancholy, when extreme and of long continuance, is a disease, sometimes accompanied with partial insanity. Cullen defines it, partial insanity without dyspepsy. NWAD MELANCHOLY.2

In nosology, mental-alienation restrained to a single object or train of ideas, in distinction from mania, in which the alienation is general. NWAD MELANCHOLY.3

Moon-struck madness, moping melancholy. NWAD MELANCHOLY.4

MELANCHOLY, a. Gloomy; depressed in spirits; dejected; applied to persons. Overwhelming grief has made me melancholy. NWAD MELANCHOLY.5

1. Dismal; gloomy; habitually dejected; as a melancholy temper. NWAD MELANCHOLY.6

2. Calamitous; afflictive; that may or does produce great evil and grief; as a melancholy event. The melancholy fate of the Albion! The melancholy destruction of Scio and of Missolonghi! NWAD MELANCHOLY.7

MELANAGE, n. melanj’. A mixture. [Not English.] NWAD MELANAGE.1

MELANITE, n. [Gr. black.] A mineral, a variety of garnet, of a velvet black or grayish black, occurring always in crystals of a dodecahedral form. NWAD MELANITE.1

Melanite is perfectly opake. It is found among volcanic substances. NWAD MELANITE.2

MELANITIC, a. Pertaining to melanite. NWAD MELANITIC.1

MELANTERI, n. [Gr. black.] Salt or iron, or iron in a saline state, mixed with inflammable matter. NWAD MELANTERI.1

MELANURE, MELANURUS, n. A small fish of the Mediterranean. NWAD MELANURE.1

MELASSES, n. sing. [Gr. black, or honey.] The sirup which drains from Muscovado sugar when cooling; treacle. NWAD MELASSES.1

MELILOT, n. A plant of the genus Trifolium. NWAD MELILOT.1

MELIORATE, v.t. [L. melior, better.] To make better; to improve; as, to meliorate fruit by grafting, or soil by cultivation. Civilization has done much, but christianity more, to meliorate the condition of men in society. NWAD MELIORATE.1

Nature by art we nobly meliorate. NWAD MELIORATE.2

MELIORATE, v.i. To grow better. NWAD MELIORATE.3

MELIORATED, pp. Made better; improved. NWAD MELIORATED.1

MELIORATING, ppr. Improving; advancing in good qualities. NWAD MELIORATING.1

The pure and benign light of revelation has had a meliorating influence on mankind. NWAD MELIORATING.2

MELIORATION, n. The act or operation of making better; improvement. NWAD MELIORATION.1

MELIORITY, n. The state of being better. [Not in use.] NWAD MELIORITY.1

MELL, v.i. To mix; to meddle. [Not in use.] NWAD MELL.1

MELL, n. [L. mel.] Honey. [Not English.] NWAD MELL.2

MELLATE, n. [L. mel, honey.] A combination of the mellitic acid with a base. NWAD MELLATE.1

MELLIFEROUS, a. [L. mel, honey, and fero, to produce.] NWAD MELLIFEROUS.1

Producing honey. NWAD MELLIFEROUS.2

MELLIFICATION, n. [L. mellifico.] The making or production of honey. NWAD MELLIFICATION.1

MELLIFLUENCE, n. [L. mel, honey, and fluo, to flow.] NWAD MELLIFLUENCE.1

A flow of sweetness, or a sweet smooth flow. NWAD MELLIFLUENCE.2

MELLIFLUENT, MELLIFLUOUS, a. Flowing with honey; smooth; sweetly flowing; as a mellifluous voice. NWAD MELLIFLUENT.1

MELLIT, n. In farriery, a dry scab on the heel of a horse’s fore foot, cured by a mixture of honey and vinegar. NWAD MELLIT.1

MELLITE, n. [L. mel.] Honey stone; a mineral of a honey color, found only in very minute regular crystals. NWAD MELLITE.1

MELLITIC, a. Pertaining to honey stone. NWAD MELLITIC.1

MELLOW, a. [L. mollis, malus.] NWAD MELLOW.1

1. Soft with ripeness; easily yielding to pressure; as a mellow peach or apple; mellow fruit. NWAD MELLOW.2

2. Soft to the ear; as a mellow sound; a mellow pipe. NWAD MELLOW.3

3. Soft; well pulverized; not indurated or compact; as mellow ground or earth. NWAD MELLOW.4

4. Soft and smooth to the taste; as mellow wine. NWAD MELLOW.5

5. Soft with liquor; intoxicated; merry. NWAD MELLOW.6

6. Soft or easy to the eye. NWAD MELLOW.7

The tender flush whose mellow stain imbues NWAD MELLOW.8

Heaven with all freaks of light. NWAD MELLOW.9

MELLOW, v.t. To ripen; to bring to maturity; to soften by ripeness or age. NWAD MELLOW.10

On foreign mountains may the sun refine NWAD MELLOW.11

The grape’s soft juice and mellow it to wine. NWAD MELLOW.12

1. To soften; to pulverize. Earth is mellowed by frost. NWAD MELLOW.13

2. To mature; to bring to perfection. NWAD MELLOW.14

This episode--mellowed into that reputation which time has given it. NWAD MELLOW.15

MELLOW, v.i. To become soft; to be ripened, matured or brought to perfection. Fruit, when taken from the tree, soon mellows. Wine mellows with age. NWAD MELLOW.16

MELLOWNESS, n. Softness; the quality of yielding easily to pressure; ripeness, as of fruit. NWAD MELLOWNESS.1

1. Maturity; softness or smoothness from age, as of wine. NWAD MELLOWNESS.2