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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.

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

A morbid condition in which the blood contains black pigment either floating freely or imbedded in the white blood corpuscles.

A medicine supposed to expel black bile or choler. [Obs.]

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.

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

Given to melancholy; depressed; melancholy; dejected; unhappy. Just as the melancholic eye Sees fleets and armies in the sky. Prior.

In a melancholy manner.

The state or quality of being melancholy. Hallywell.

Melancholy. [R.] Milton.

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

To make melancholy.

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

A family of fungi constituting the order Melanconiales. -- Mel`an*co`ni*a"ceous (#), a.

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.

Of or pertaining to Melanesia.

A mixture; a medley.

One of a family of fresh-water pectinibranchiate mollusks, having a turret-shaped shell.

Melanotic.

A complex nitrogenous hydrocarbon obtained artificially (as by the action of cyanogen chloride on aniline) as a white, crystalline substance; -- called also diphenyl guanidin.