Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Melanism

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Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Melanism


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(1):

(n.) The character of having a high degree of pigmentation, as shown in dark skin, eyes, and hair.

(2):

(n.) An undue development of dark-colored pigment in the skin or its appendages; -- the opposite of albinism.

(3):

(n.) A disease; black jaundice. See Mel/na.