MELINITE
Mé"lin*ite, n. [F.] (Chem.)
Defn: A high explosive similar to lyddite, consisting principally of picric acid, used in the French military service.
MELIORATE
Mel"io*rate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Meliorated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Meliorating.] Etym: [L. melioratus, p. p. of meliorare to meliorate,
fr. melior better; akin to Gr. Ameliorate.]
Defn: To make better; to improve; to ameliorate; to soften; to make
more tolerable.
Nature by art we nobly meliorate. Denham.
The pure and bening light of revelation has had a meliorating
influence on mankind. Washington.
MELIORATE
Mel"io*rate, v. i.
Defn: To grow better.
MELIORATER
Mel"io*ra`ter, n.
Defn: Same as Meliorator.
MELIORATION
Mel`io*ra"tion, n. Etym: [L. melioratio.]
Defn: The act or operation of meliorating, or the state of being meliorated; improvement. Bacon.