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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Dissolve :: Dissolve (v. i.) To become fluid; to be melted; to be liquefied.
Resorcin :: Resorcin (n.) A colorless crystalline substance of the phenol series, obtained by melting certain resins, as galbanum, asafetida, etc., with caustic potash. It is also produced artificially and used in making certain dyestuffs, as phthalein, fluorescein, and eosin..
Dissolving :: Dissolving (a.) Melting; breaking up; vanishing.
Dissolution :: Dissolution (n.) Change from a solid to a fluid state; solution by heat or moisture; liquefaction; melting.
Washpot :: Washpot (n.) A pot containing melted tin into which the plates are dipped to be coated.
Illiquation :: Illiquation (n.) The melting or dissolving of one thing into another.
Kish :: Kish (n.) A workman's name for the graphite which forms incidentally in iron smelting.
Virgalieu :: Virgalieu (n.) A valuable kind of pear, of an obovate shape and with melting flesh of delicious flavor; -- more properly called White Doyenne..
Touch :: Touch (v. t.) To affect the senses or the sensibility of; to move; to melt; to soften.
Silversides :: Silversides (n.) Any one of several species of small fishes of the family Atherinidae, having a silvery stripe along each side of the body. The common species of the American coast (Menidia notata) is very abundant. Called also silverside, sand smelt, friar, tailor, and tinker..
Wick :: Wick (n.) A bundle of fibers, or a loosely twisted or braided cord, tape, or tube, usually made of soft spun cotton threads, which by capillary attraction draws up a steady supply of the oil in lamps, the melted tallow or wax in candles, or other material used for illumination, in small successive portions, to be burned..
Deliquate :: Deliquate (v. i.) To melt or be dissolved; to deliquesce.
Smelt :: Smelt (n.) Any one of numerous species of small silvery salmonoid fishes of the genus Osmerus and allied genera, which ascend rivers to spawn, and sometimes become landlocked in lakes. They are esteemed as food, and have a peculiar odor and taste..
Flow :: Flow (v. i.) To become liquid; to melt.
Sparling :: Sparling (n.) The European smelt (Osmerus eperlanus).
Colliquation :: Colliquation (n.) A melting together; the act of melting; fusion.
Thawy :: Thawy (a.) Liquefying by heat after having been frozen; thawing; melting.
Palmitic :: Palmitic (a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, palmitin or palm oil; as, palmitic acid, a white crystalline body belonging to the fatty acid series. It is readily soluble in hot alcohol, and melts to a liquid oil at 62ยก C..
Cupola :: Cupola (n.) A furnace for melting iron or other metals in large quantity, -- used chiefly in foundries and steel works..
Resolve :: Resolve (v. i.) To separate the component parts of; to reduce to the constituent elements; -- said of compound substances; hence, sometimes, to melt, or dissolve..
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