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Show ME [meeting an "™y MEETING-HOUSEa 2. / houfe.] Place where Diffenters aflembl to worfhip His heart mifgave him that the churches wer fo many meetinghoufes5 but I foon made him grain [fro 7. / megrim Hemyerany And ever mufing melancholy reigns Merancuo'vy. adj 1 o How now Pope and megrim at her head Ainfw To mingle 20 MEINE. @. a Sc Saxon z /. [memgu MeaNy " Many French. Mefaie W BICERTS: . ) [uriinied Meliceris is a tamour inclofed -in confifting of matter like honey I refembles milk curds, the tumour i roma; if like honey, meliceris; an A retinue fummon'd up their meiny; {trait too horfe Sh Commanded me to follow, and attend The ®MELANAGO GUES. 2. /i [from péravi 'm &yw.] Such medicines as are fuppofe particularly to purge off black choler "MELANCHOLICK. adj. [from m/mzc/zo/y 1. Difordered with melancholy ; fanci f‘ ; fal; hypochondriacal; gloomy If he be mad, or angry, or melanckolick, or {pright ly, he will paint whatfoever is proportionable to an Dryden one The commentators on old AriStotle, 'tis urg'd, in judgement vary They to their owa conceits have brough The image of his general thought Juft as the melancholick ey Sces fleets and armies in the fky Prior = Unhappy; unfortunate; caufing forrow The king found h]mfelf‘xt the head of his army after fo many accidents and melancholick perplexiClarendon ties MELANCHO'LY #. / [melancolie, Fr from pénaios and yoan. difeafe, fuppofed to procee a redundanc fro bu it i = Quiney ful flimuli S 2 - A kind of madnefs 1 alway in which the min 1 have neither the {cholar's melancholy, whic g oure i extraCted from many objeéts, and, indeed, th fundry contemplation of my travels, in \Nhl(,h m ofte rumindtio wrap m in a moft humorou Shake[peare fadnefs Moonftruck madnefs, moping melancholy. Milt 3. A gloomy per penfive, difcontented tem He protefted, that he had only been to feek foli‘tary places by un extreme mélancholy that had pof2" fefled him Sidney -All thefe gifts come'from him; and if we murmur here, ‘we ‘may 4t ‘the next melancholy b troubled that Go did no make us angels Taylor's Holy Living This mr!anr/vfi) flatters, ‘but unmans you ‘What is it elfe but penury of foul Alazy froft, anumbnefs of the i ? Dryden lotus, Liat. 7 fro eafily change fpeech. A frorm 'To better melior. from meliorate. 3 lisrit f ‘be From female mellow praife he takes degrees Rofcommon In all thy humours, whether grave or melismv Thou'rt fuch a tefty, touchy, pleafant fello Haft fo much wit, ‘and mirth, and fpleen abou thee There is-no living with thee, nor without thee Zo Me'LLow 1. T Spenfer's Paftorals MeLrLi'FEROUS. adj. Produétive of hoDi& ney MerriFrica'rioN. n. f. [mellifico, Lat. The art or prattice of making honey produéhon of honey In judging of the air, many things befides th weather ought to be obferved: in fome countiies MELLIFLUENCE #. / b Aubrey Ver and' more than 1‘0, my father Ad To foften They plow in the wheat ftubble in Decem and if the weather prove frofty to do not plow it again till April Mortim er's 3. To mature to per fection This epifode,-no moft pleafing entertain th ment of the AEneis, was fo accounted in his ow age, and before -it was mellowwed into that reput‘ Dryden tion which time has given it I fee thou doft but clatter and wan to fofte The royal tree hath left us royal fruit o Which mellow'd by the ftealing hours of time i Shake[beWill well become the feat of ma J Yo On foreign mountains may the fun refin The grapes foft juice, and mellowo it to wine Here is a great deal of good matte Loft for lack of telling the ‘filence of grafs-hoppers cation in becs mature Even in the downfall of his me/lszv'd years Shakefpeare S‘b:':':/:'f Harm may come of melling ,?r: to ripen by age Was done to death by a reflex argunient, that it is the workmanth not of blind ruc.mmim, but of an intelligesit u] mm/q benign agent No t Lor do uinu It fathers fits not with fuch things to me// A @. a. [from the noun. tipen ripenefs the e To MELL. w. n. [meler,fe meler, French. Obfolete To mix; to meddle with drink Greedy of phyficians frequent fees bwuty of ‘the inanimate parts o above what was neceffar un&uous Drunk ; melted dow Bacon ends of them Soft Baco - Men incline unto them which are fofteit, an leaft in their way, in defpight of them that hol them hardeft to it; fo that this colour of meliorit the difcernabl Dryd Camomile theweth #ze/lozv grounds fit for wheat. MEzer1o'RITY. 2. /. [from melior.] Stat A word very elegant of ‘being better but not ufed the world nay, my leaves Of fevenfmooth joints a mellow pipe 1 have Which with his dying breath Damatas gave Dryden bettering For the melioration of mufick there is yet muc left, in this point of exquifite conforts, to try call it what you will Soft in found a& o lmprovement full ripe Like mellozw fruit, without a winter ftorm Fr [melioration 2. / MEeriorA'TION commo An apple in my hand works different effeét upon my fenfes: my eye tells me it is green; m nofe, that it hath a mellowv {cent; and my tafte that it is fweet Digly A little longer And Nature drops him down without your fin Grafting meliorates the fruit; for that the nourithment is better prepared in the ftock than in th A man ought by no means to think that h fhould be able fo much as to alter ormeliorate th humour of an ungrateful perfon by any aéts o kindnefs South Caftration ferves to meliorate the flefh of thof Graunt beafts that fuffer it Much labour is requir'd in trees Well muft the ground be digg'd, and better drefs'd Dryden New foil to make, and wc/mau the reft i \/*.lfi;:i/pmn to improve crude earth Bacon But when we graft, or buds inoculate Denbam Nature by art we nobly mclisrate a robbery Shook down my mellsw hangings Fr [meliorer @w. a int 1. Soft with ripenefs meli French [melilot MEe'LLow. adj. [meappa foft, .Saxo*l Skinner more nearly from mollis, molle mollow, mellow : though » is indee A plant ME'LIORATE The order an emulation; nor the mufician's, which is fantaftical; nor the courtier's, which is proud; nor th foldier's, which is ambitious; nor the lawyer's which-is politick; nor the lady's, which is nice nor the lover's, which is all thefe; but it is-a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many fimples fom #n. / and pre-eminence is a fign of weaknefs fixed on one objett A mellifluous voice, as I amaa true knight Shake[peare As all thofe things which are moft mellifluous ar fooneft changed into choler and bitternefs, fo ar our vanities and pleafures converted into the bittereft forrows Raleigh Innumerous fongfters in the frefhening fhad Of new fprung leaves, their modulations mi Mellifluous Thomfon's Spring Sharp fteatoma of fat, or a fuety {ubftance MeviLor cyftis, an the matte called atheif compofe Bacon better known to arife from too heav and too vifcid blcod : itscureisin evacuation, nervous medicines, and power alf wi of black bile fweet Frank; -art-thou melancholy and fluo Flowin with honey; flowing with fweetnefs fanciful He obferves Lamech more melancholy than ufual and imagines it to be from a fufpicion bhe ha of his wife Adah, whom he loved Locke dometftick {ervants R melancholy Shakefpeare There fcreen'd in fhades from day's detefted glare Spleen fighs for ever on her penfive bed Pain at her fide wit habitunally dejeéted Bacon's Natural Hiftory Gloomy ; difmal Difeafe In every megrim or vertigo there is an obtenebration joined with a femblance of turning round %its, T [melancholique, Fr. MEeLLY'FLUENT. ) adj. [me MEeLLi'FLUOUS Latin. Pope the head s Pope A honied flow; a flow of fiveet nefs Think of all our miferie But as fome melanchol dream, which has awak'd u Denbam To the renewing of ourjoys If in the melancholy fhades below The flames of friends and lovers ceafe to glow Yet mine fhall facred laft, mine undecay'd Burn on through death, and animate my fhade mi Diforde ilmflchvfa. Lat. In thofe deep folitudes and awful cells Where heav'nly penfive contemplation dwells o MeeTLY. adv. [from the adjeive. Fitly; properl 'y C9a "MEETNESS, 7. /. [from meet. Fitnefs propriety Jd4 Wy MElGrRIM ME ME of mellifiArbutbrot [mel and fluo @.n To Me'LLow t 'To be matured ripen Though no ftone tell thee what I was In my grave' vet tho infide fec'ft, what thou art now Yet thou'rt not yet fo good till us death la To ripe and meflow there, we're ftubborn clay Doxnc Me'LrownEss Matunt #. / [from mellozv. of fruits ; ripenefs {oftnef by maturity s e v o l m s e n e de o conf ca reaf M fingi v, and without relafweetnefs, or cokinefs tio |