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A salt of mellitic acid.

ound in brown coal, and partly the result of vegetable decomposition; honeystone. It is a mellitate of alumina.

Containing saccharine matter; marked by saccharine secretions; as, mellitic diabetes.

, obtained from certain sulphocyanates. It has acid properties and forms compounds called mellonides.

See Mellone.

Soft or tender by reason of ripeness; having a tender pulp; as, a mellow apple.

In a mellow manner.

Quality or state of being mellow.

Soft; unctuous. Drayton.

A climbing plant (Ullucus officinalis) of the Andes, having tuberous roots which are used as a substitute for potatoes.

A mill. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A quince.

A kind of small reed organ; -- a portable form of the seraphine.

Of the nature of melody; relating to, containing, or made up of, melody; melodious.

The department of musical science which treats of the pitch of tones, and of the laws of melody.

for preserving a record of music, by recording the action of the keys of a musical instrument when played upon.

Containing, or producing, melody; musical; agreeable to the ear by a sweet succession of sounds; as, a melodious voice. "A melodious voice." "A melodious undertone." Longfellow. -- Me*lo"di*ous*ly, adv. -- Me*lo"di*ous*ness, n.

A composer or singer of melodies.

To make melodious; to form into, or set to, melody.

Formerly, a kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes. Now, a drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic. In opera, a passage in which the orchestra plays a somewhat de…