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One who acts in, or writes, melodramas.

Melodrama.

A radical regarded as derived from ammonium by the substitution of mercury for a portion of the hydrogen.

Anagrammatism.

A measure of energy or work done; the power exerted in raising one gram through the distance of one meter against gravitation.

A measure of weight, in the metric system, being the thousandth part of a gram, equal to the weight of a cubic millimeter of water, or .01543 of a grain avoirdupois.

To frame wrongly.

The first month of the Mohammedan year. Whitworth.

A drama acted, or intended to be acted, by a single person.

Pertaining to a monodrama.

woven or combined so as to represent a name, or a part of it (usually the initials). Monograms are often used on seals, ornamental pins, rings, buttons, and by painters, engravers, etc., to distinguish their works. Monogram.

See Monogrammic.

Monogrammic.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a monogram.

Monogrammic.

Divided into many branches.

Having many branches.

are not interrupted by set arias, duets, etc., the music being determined throughout by dramatic appropriateness; musical drama of this character, in general. It involves the use of a kind of melodious declamation, the development of leitmotif, great orchestral elaboration, and a fusion of poetry, music, action, and s…

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A metric weight, consisting of ten thousand grams or ten kilograms. It is equal to 22.046 lbs. avoirdupois.