Lepidomelane :: Lepidomelane (n.) 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..
Melanaemia :: Melanaemia (n.) A morbid condition in which the blood contains black pigment either floating freely or imbedded in the white blood corpuscles.
Melanagogue :: Melanagogue (n.) A medicine supposed to expel black bile or choler.
Melancholia :: Melancholia (n.) 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..
Melancholian :: Melancholian (n.) A person affected with melancholy; a melancholic.
Melancholic :: Melancholic (a.) Given to melancholy; depressed; melancholy; dejected; unhappy.
Melancholic :: Melancholic (n.) One affected with a gloomy state of mind.
Melancholic :: Melancholic (n.) A gloomy state of mind; melancholy.
Melanic :: Melanic (a.) Of or pertaining to the black-haired races.
Melaniline :: Melaniline (n.) A complex nitrogenous hydrocarbon obtained artificially (as by the action of cyanogen chloride on aniline) as a white, crystalline substance; -- called also diphenyl guanidin..
Melanin :: Melanin (n.) A black pigment found in the pigment-bearing cells of the skin (particularly in the skin of the negro), in the epithelial cells of the external layer of the retina (then called fuscin), in the outer layer of the choroid, and elsewhere. It is supposed to be derived from the decomposition of hemoglobin..
Melanism :: Melanism (n.) An undue development of dark-colored pigment in the skin or its appendages; -- the opposite of albinism.