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1. male-mort(e n.
Additional spellings:
malemort, male-morte, malemorte
3 quotations in 1 sense
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An inflamed sore or a disease characterized by such sores; glanders in horses and dogs; a disease of sheep.
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3. malencolik adj.
42 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) Consisting of, or mixed with, black bile; of a humor other than melancholy: mixed with black bile or transformed into unnatural melancholy; malencolik humour, humour malencolik, black bile; --……
4. malencolī(e n.
Additional spellings:
malencolie
99 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) One of the four humors, black bile; a bodily fluid which helps to form and nourish the body; -- not pathological unless present in excessive amounts; also, an altered form of black bile [see (b)]……