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A species of amaranth (Amarantus melancholicus).

To provide with a form, as a hare. See Form, n., 9. The melancholy hare is formed in brakes and briers. Drayton.

Moping. [Archaic] A melancholy, fusty humor. Pepys.

Sullenness; melancholy. [Obs.] J. Still.

Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness. A sullen gloom and furious disorder prevailed by fits. Burke.

Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected; as, a gloomy temper or countenance.

What may be got without skill or merit. Fish not, with this melancholy bait, For this fool gudgeon, this opinion. Shak.

Imperfectly or partly heard to the end. And leave half-heard the melancholy tale. Pope.

despodent. Heartless they fought, and quitted soon their ground. Dryden. Heartless and melancholy. W. Irwing.

So as to stand any test. "We are high-proof melancholy." Shak.

Somewhat hypochondriac; melancholy. See Hyppish. [Colloq.] When we are hipped or in high spirits. R. L. Stevenson.

To make melancholy. [Colloq.] W. Irving.

Hypochondriasis; melancholy; the blues.

A mental disorder in which melancholy and gloomy views torment the affected person, particularly concerning his own health.

he work of the imagination or fancy; false ideas; imaginary phantasms. The imagery of a melancholic fancy. Atterbury.

To make pallid; to blanch. [Obs.] Feltham.

The small applelike berry of American trees of genus Amelanchier; -- also called service berry.

To throw in the manner of a lance. See Lanch.

for separating the warp threads and beating up the weft; -- called also lay and batten. Blanchard lathe, a lathe for turning irregular forms after a given pattern, as lasts, gunstocks, and the like. -- Drill lathe, or Speed lathe, a small lathe which, from its high speed, is adapted for drilling; a hand lathe. -- En…

quence, gave himself up to indolence and daydreams; one of the Lotophagi. The mild-eyed melancholy Lotos-eaters. Tennyson.