Melville
Mel·ville (mel′vil)
noun
a masculine name: var. Melvil
Etymology: after the surname (orig. place name)
Mel·ville (mel′vil)
Melville, Herman 1819-91; U.S. novelist
Mel·ville (mel′vil)
island of Canada in the Arctic Ocean, north of Victoria Island: 16,274 sq mi (42,149 sq km)
island of Australia, off the N coast: 2,240 sq mi (5,802 sq km)
Etymology: after R. Saunders, Viscount Melville (1771-1851), First Lord of the Admiralty
He understoodWalt Whitman, who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary, and Herman Melville who split the atom of the traditional novel in the effort to make whaling a universal metaphor.
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