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‖n. [ Sp., prop. p. of adelantar to advance, to promote. ] A governor of a province; a commander. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 a genus of North American deciduous trees or shrubs.
Syn. -- genus Amelanchier. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ F. ] (Card Playing) (a) A French gambling game somewhat like poker. (b) In French games, a pair royal, or triplet. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖ [ F. carré square. ] (Card Playing) In French games, a double pair royal. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖ [ F. favori favorite. ] (Card Playing) In French games, a pair royal composed of 2 cards in the hand and the card turned. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Zool.) See Capelin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. celidoine, OF. celidoine, F. chélidoine, fr. L. chelidonia (sc. herba), fr. chelidonius pertaining to the swallow, Gr. chelido`nios, fr. chelidw`n the swallow, akin to L. hirundo a swallow. ] (Bot.) A perennial herbaceous plant (Chelidonium majus) of the poppy family, with yellow flowers. It is used as a medicine in jaundice, etc., and its acrid saffron-colored juice is used to cure warts and the itch; -- called also greater celandine and swallowwort. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lasser celandine, the pilewort (Ranunculus Ficaria). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Professor Parker Cleaveland. ] (Min.) A variety of albite, white and lamellar in structure. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Land or region where one was cradled; hence, land of origin. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. the 11 southern states that seceded from the U. S. in 1861.
Syn. -- Confederacy, Confederate States of America, South, Dixie. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. pl. See Filanders.

n. 1. A promontory or cape; a headland; as, the North and South Foreland in Kent, England. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Fort.) A piece of ground between the wall of a place and the moat. Farrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Hydraul. Engin.) That portion of the natural shore on the outside of the embankment which receives the stock of waves and deadens their force. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a person who acts independently or without authorization of an organization or of his superiors. [ PJC ]

2. a person who pursues a profession independently, and not as the employee of an organization; -- used especially of writers or photographers who sell their work to organizations of which they are not employees. [ PJC ]

a. of or pertaining to a freelance{ 2 }; as, a freelance photographer. [ PJC ]

n. a freelance{ 2 }, n. [ PJC ]

‖n. [ F. goëland. ] (Zool.) A white tropical tern (Cygis candida). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A native, or one of the Scandinavian people, of Iceland. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Iceland; relating to, or resembling, the Icelanders. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The language of the Icelanders. It is one of the Scandinavian group, and is more nearly allied to the Old Norse than any other language now spoken. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) A kind of lichen (Cetraria Icelandica) found from the Arctic regions to the North Temperate zone. It furnishes a nutritious jelly and other forms of food, and is used in pulmonary complaints as a demulcent. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Min.) A transparent variety of calcite, the best of which is obtained in Iceland. It is used for the prisms of the polariscope, because of its strong double refraction. Cf. Calcite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. lepi`s -i`dos, a scale + me`las, me`laina, black. ] (Min.) An iron-potash mica, of a raven-black color, usually found in granitic rocks in small six-sided tables, or as an aggregation of minute opaque scales. See Mica. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who libels; one who institutes a suit in an ecclesiastical or admiralty court. [ Written also libellant. ] Cranch. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.), Any of several malignant neoplasms (usually of the skin) consisting of melanocytes; called also melanoma. It is classed as a type of skin cancer. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. me`las, me`lanos, 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. [1913 Webster]

n. [ Gr. me`las, me`lanos, black + &unr_; leading, driving, &unr_; to lead. ] (Med.) A medicine supposed to expel black bile or choler. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A person affected with melancholy; a melancholic. [ Obs. ] Dr. J. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. melancholicus, Gr. &unr_;: cf. F. mélancholique. ] Given to melancholy; depressed; melancholy; dejected; unhappy. [ 1913 Webster ]

Just as the melancholic eye
Sees fleets and armies in the sky. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Obs. ] 1. One affected with a gloomy state of mind. J. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A gloomy state of mind; melancholy. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a melancholy manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being melancholy. Hallywell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. OF. melancholieux. ] Melancholy. [ R. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One affected with melancholy or dejection. [ Obs. ] Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To become gloomy or dejected in mind. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make melancholy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. melancolie, F. mélancolie, L. melancholia, fr. Gr. &unr_;; me`las, me`lanos, black + &unr_; gall, bile. See Malice, and 1st Gall. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Depression of spirits; a gloomy state continuing a considerable time; deep dejection; gloominess. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Great and continued depression of spirits, amounting to mental unsoundness; melancholia. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Pensive maditation; serious thoughtfulness. [ Obs. ] “Hail, divinest Melancholy !” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Ill nature. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Depressed in spirits; dejected; gloomy dismal. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Producing great evil and grief; causing dejection; calamitous; afflictive; as, a melancholy event. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Somewhat deranged in mind; having the jugment impaired. [ Obs. ] Bp. Reynolds. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Favorable to meditation; somber. [ 1913 Webster ]

A pretty, melancholy seat, well wooded and watered. Evelin. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Gloomy; sad; dispirited; low-spirited; downhearted; unhappy; hypochondriac; disconsolate; heavy, doleful; dismal; calamitous; afflictive. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. [ NL. ] (Bot.) A family of fungi constituting the order Melanconiales. -- Mel`an*co`ni*a"ceous a. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

n. pl. [ NL., fr. Melanconium, name of the typical genus, fr. Gr. me`las black + &unr_; dust, in allusion to the dark spores. ] (Bot.) The smallest of the three orders of Fungi Imperfecti, including those with no asci nor pycnidia, but as a rule having the spores in cavities without special walls. They cause many of the plant diseases known as anthracnose. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

prop. a. [ Gr. me`las, me`lanos, black + &unr_; island. Melanesia was so called from the dark complexion of the natives. ] Of or pertaining to Melanesia. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. See Mell, Meddle. ] A mixture; a medley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) One of a family of fresh-water pectinibranchiate mollusks, having a turret-shaped shell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. me`las, -anos, black. ] 1. Melanotic. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Ethnol.) Of or pertaining to the black-haired races. Prichard. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. me`las, me`lanos, black. ] (Physiol.) A black pigment found in the pigment-bearing cells of the skin (particularly in the skin of the negro), in the epithelial cells of the external layer of the retina (then called fuscin), in the outer layer of the choroid, and elsewhere. It is supposed to be derived from the decomposition of hemoglobin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. me`las, -anos, black. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. An undue development of dark-colored pigment in the skin or its appendages; -- the opposite of albinism. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) A disease; black jaundice. See Melaena. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Ethnol.) The character of having a high degree of pigmentation, as shown in dark skin, eyes, and hair. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]