Definition of melt

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Melt (v.) To reduce from a solid to a liquid state, as by heat; to liquefy; as, to melt wax, tallow, or lead; to melt ice or snow..

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Dissolving :: Dissolving (a.) Melting; breaking up; vanishing.
Cruset :: Cruset (n.) A goldsmith's crucible or melting pot.
Wood''s Metal :: Wood's metal () A fusible alloy consisting of one or two parts of cadmium, two parts of tin, four of lead, with seven or eight part of bismuth. It melts at from 66? to 71? C. See Fusible metal, under Fusible..
Smelt :: Smelt (v. i.) To melt or fuse, as, ore, for the purpose of separating and refining the metal; hence, to reduce; to refine; to flux or scorify; as, to smelt tin..
Run :: Run (a.) Melted, or made from molten material; cast in a mold; as, run butter; run iron or lead..
Infusible :: Infusible (a.) Not fusible; incapble or difficalt of fusion, or of being dissolved or melted..
Smelter :: Smelter (n.) One who, or that which, smelts..
Gallium :: Gallium (n.) A rare metallic element, found in certain zinc ores. It is white, hard, and malleable, resembling aluminium, and remarcable for its low melting point (86/ F., 30/C). Symbol Ga. Atomic weight 69.9..
Distill :: Distill (v. t.) To dissolve or melt.
Fuse :: Fuse (v. t.) To unite or blend, as if melted together..
Kish :: Kish (n.) A workman's name for the graphite which forms incidentally in iron smelting.
Swale :: Swale (v. i. & t.) To melt and waste away; to singe. See Sweal, v..
Illiquation :: Illiquation (n.) The melting or dissolving of one thing into another.
Liquefy :: Liquefy (v. t.) To convert from a solid form to that of a liquid; to melt; to dissolve; and technically, to melt by the sole agency of heat..
Foge :: Foge (n.) The Cornish name for a forge used for smelting tin.
Liquescent :: Liquescent (a.) Tending to become liquid; inclined to melt; melting.
Eliquation :: Eliquation (n.) The process of separating a fusible substance from one less fusible, by means of a degree of heat sufficient to melt the one and not the other, as an alloy of copper and lead; liquation..
Tallow :: Tallow (n.) The suet or fat of animals of the sheep and ox kinds, separated from membranous and fibrous matter by melting..
Till :: Till (n.) A deposit of clay, sand, and gravel, without lamination, formed in a glacier valley by means of the waters derived from the melting glaciers; -- sometimes applied to alluvium of an upper river terrace, when not laminated, and appearing as if formed in the same manner..
Blast :: Blast (n.) A forcible stream of air from an orifice, as from a bellows, the mouth, etc. Hence: The continuous blowing to which one charge of ore or metal is subjected in a furnace; as, to melt so many tons of iron at a blast..
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