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dium stages of various Ascomycetes. The group is divided into the orders Sphæropsidales, Melanconiales, and Moniliales.

A brown, nitrogenous pigment contained in the retinal epithelium; a variety of melanin.

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

A Celt or the Celts of the Scotch Highlands or of Ireland; now esp., a Scotch Highlander of Celtic origin.

A brisk, gay man. [Obs.] Selden is a galliard by himself. Cleveland.

A heavy-armed foot soldier from Ireland and the Western Isles in the time of Edward Shak.

a vast collection of basaltic pillars, in the county of Antrim on the northern coast of Ireland.

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.

A boy; a servant. [Ireland]

ively used in the preparation of inks, dyes, mordants, etc. (b) (Min.) Same as copperas, melanterite and sulphate of iron. -- Green ware, articles of pottery molded and shaped, but not yet baked. -- Green woodpecker (Zoöl.), a common European woodpecker (Picus viridis); -- called also yaffle.

A bright-colored South African grosbeak (Pyromelana orix), having the back red and the lower parts black.

A small South African antelope (Neotragus melanotis). It is speckled with gray and chestnut, above; the under parts are reddish fawn.

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

ocks, mostly white, but sometimes red or yellow, from a mixture of clay or ocher. P. Cleaveland.

A marine food fish (Melanogrammus æglefinus), allied to the cod, inhabiting the northern coasts of Europe and America. It has a dark lateral line and a black spot on each side of the body, just back of the gills. Galled also haddie, and dickie. Norway haddock, a marine edible fish (Sebastes marinus) of Northern Europe…

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

A brass coin bearing the emblem of a harp, -- formerly current in Ireland. B. Jonson.

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