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Alternately responsive, as verses.

Of or pertaining to song; lyric; tuneful.

A genus of grasses (Melica) of little agricultural importance.

Consisting of or containing matter like honey; -- said of certain encysted tumors.

See Melocoton.

A meadlike drink. [Obs.]

A mineral occurring in small yellow crystals, found in the lavas (melilite basalt) of Vesuvius, and elsewhere. [Written also mellilite.]

Any species of Melilotus, a genus of leguminous herbs having a vanillalike odor; sweet clover; hart's clover. The blue melilot (Melilotus cærulea) is used in Switzerland to give color and flavor to sapsago cheese.

Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, sweet clover or meliot; specifically, designating an acid of the aromatic series, obtained from melilot as a white crystalline substance.

A high explosive similar to lyddite, consisting principally of picric acid, used in the French military service.

To make better; to improve; to ameliorate; to soften; to make more tolerable. Nature by art we nobly meliorate. Denham. The pure and bening light of revelation has had a meliorating influence on mankind. Washington.

Same as Meliorator.

The act or operation of meliorating, or the state of being meliorated; improvement. Bacon.

One who meliorates.

The doctrine that there is a tendency throughout nature toward improvement. J. Sully.

The state or quality of being better; melioration. [Obs.] Bacon.

Belonging to the genus Meliphaga.

Eating, or feeding upon, honey.

A piece of melody; a song or tune, -- as opposed to recitative or musical declamation.

A genus of labiate herbs, including the balm, or bee balm (Melissa officinalis).