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Of or pertaining to song; lyric; tuneful.

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

of peach having one side deep red, and the flesh yellow. [Written also malacatoon, malacotune.]

The air or tune of a musical piece.

emory. I . . . entered a memorandum in my pocketbook. Guardian. I wish you would, as opportunity offers, make memorandums of the regulations of the academies. Sir J. Reynolds.

Compassionate treatment of the unfortunate and helpless; sometimes, favor, beneficence. Luke x. 37.

Fortune telling by physiognomy. [R.] Urquhart.

A support for the center of a tunnel.

compel to yield profit or advantage; to plunder. Tyndale. They [the lawyers] milk an unfortunate estate as regularly as a dairyman does his stock. London Spectator. To milk the street, to squeeze the smaller operators in stocks and extract a profit from them, by alternately raising and depressing prices within a short…

An alloy consisting of copper, nickel, tungsten, and aluminium; -- used by jewelers.

To form subterraneous tunnel or hole; to form a burrow or lodge in the earth; as, the mining cony.

A tune or air to regulate the movements of the dance so called; a movement in suites, sonatas, symphonies, etc., having the dance form, and commonly in 3-4, sometimes 3-8, measure.

Mischance; misfortune; ill lick; unlucky accident; ill adventure. Chaucer. Homicide by misadventure (Law), homicide which occurs when a man, doing a lawful act, without any intention of injury, unfortunately kills another; -- called also excusable homicide. See Homicide. Blackstone.

Unfortunate. [Obs.]

Unfortunate.

Born to misfortune. Spenser.

Unfortunate event or issue of an undertaking; failure to attain a desired result or reach a destination. When a counselor, to save himself, Would lay miscarriages upon his prince. Dryden.

Ill luck; ill fortune; mishap. Chaucer. Never come mischance between us twain. Shak.

A wretched person; a person afflicted by any great misfortune. [Obs.] Spenser. The woeful words of a miser now despairing. Sir P. Sidney.

Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune. When we our betters see bearing our woes, We scarcely think our miseries our foes. Shak.