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One affected with melancholy or dejection. [Obs.] Glanvill.

To make melancholy.

Great and continued depression of spirits, amounting to mental unsoundness; melancholia.

A white, crystalline, aromatic substance resembling camphor, extracted from oil of peppermint (Mentha); -- called also mint camphor or peppermint camphor.

The technical name of methyl alcohol or wood spirit; also, by extension, the class name of any of the series of alcohols of the methane series of which methol proper is the type. See Methyl alcohol, under Methyl.

See Maholi.

Of, pertaining to, or according to, the principles of morphology. -- Mor`pho*log"ic*al*ly, adv.

One who is versed in the science of morphology.

and describing their varieties, homologies, and metamorphoses. See Tectology, and Promorphology.

A hole made by a mouse, for passage or abode, as in a wall; hence, a very small hole like that gnawed by a mouse.

A hole, or hollow place, containing mud, as in a road.

A mythologist.

A mythologist.

Of or pertaining to mythology or to myths; mythical; fabulous. -- Myth`o*log"ic*al*ly, adv.

One versed in, or who writes on, mythology or myths.

To relate, classify, and explain, or attempt to explain, myths; to write upon myths.

One who, or that which, mythologizes. Imagination has always been, and still is, in a narrower sense, the great mythologizer. Lowell.

arrative; a myth. [R.] May we not ... consider his history of the fall as an excellent mythologue, to account for the origin of human evil Geddes.

myths; esp., the collective myths which describe the gods of a heathen people; as, the mythology of the Greeks.

to phenol. In general they are crystalline substances with a phenol (carbolic) odor. Naphthol blue, Naphthol orange, Naphthol yellow (Chem.), brilliant dyestuffs produced from certain complex nitrogenous derivatives of naphthol or naphthoquinone.