mel itæmia (mel item i a)

[NL., irreg. for *melithœmia, mal quantity of sugar in the blood. Mel i to phil i (mel-i-tof'i-li), n. pl. [NL., Vn-callyd go thou to no counselle; That longes to the, with that thow melle . Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 19. She would it eeke, and make much worse by telling, And take great joy to publish it to many, That every matter worse was for her melling . Spenser , F. Q., V. xii. 35. 3t. To busy one's self: used reflexively. Sche melled hire Meliors ferst to greithe. William of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), l. 1719. 4. To contend in fight. [Obsolete or prov. Eng.] Mony fallyn were fey of the fell Grekes, But mo of the meny, that mell it hom with. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 5243.