melinite
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of melinite
1885–90; < French mélinite < Greek mḗlin ( os ) made of apples (derivative of mêlon apple) + French -ite -ite 1
Example Sentences
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Eugene Turpin, 78, inventor of melinite;* of pulmonary congestion, at Pontoise, France.
From Time Magazine Archive
The latter cannon, however, only used cordite, whereas the 5-inch howitzer shells are filled with a picric compound resembling M. Turpin's melinite.
From Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan by Burleigh, Bennet
Boer melinite shells aren't in it with this new compound.
From Queen Sheba's Ring by Haggard, Henry Rider
Gunners say that melinite sometimes does these things.
From Ladysmith The Diary of a Siege by Nevinson, Henry W.
You come out of the dust and the stench of melinite, not knowing where you were, hardlyPg 133 knowing whether you were hit—only knowing that the next was rushing on its way.
From From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War by Steevens, G. W. (George Warrington)
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