Definition of melt

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Melt (v.) Hence: To soften, as by a warming or kindly influence; to relax; to render gentle or susceptible to mild influences; sometimes, in a bad sense, to take away the firmness of; to weaken..

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Calk :: Calk (v. t.) To drive tarred oakum into the seams between the planks of (a ship, boat, etc.), to prevent leaking. The calking is completed by smearing the seams with melted pitch..
Virgalieu :: Virgalieu (n.) A valuable kind of pear, of an obovate shape and with melting flesh of delicious flavor; -- more properly called White Doyenne..
Liquable :: Liquable (v. i.) Capable of being melted.
Deliquium :: Deliquium (n.) A melting or dissolution in the air, or in a moist place; a liquid condition; as, a salt falls into a deliquium..
Graves :: Graves (n. pl.) The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.
Relent :: Relent (v. i.) To become less rigid or hard; to yield; to dissolve; to melt; to deliquesce.
Colliquable :: Colliquable (a.) Liable to melt, grow soft, or become fluid..
Aventurine :: Aventurine (n.) A kind of glass, containing gold-colored spangles. It was produced in the first place by the accidental (par aventure) dropping of some brass filings into a pot of melted glass..
Metallurgy :: Metallurgy (n.) The art of working metals, comprehending the whole process of separating them from other matters in the ore, smelting, refining, and parting them; sometimes, in a narrower sense, only the process of extracting metals from their ores..
Swale :: Swale (v. i. & t.) To melt and waste away; to singe. See Sweal, v..
Thaw :: Thaw (v. i.) To become so warm as to melt ice and snow; -- said in reference to the weather, and used impersonally..
Deliquation :: Deliquation (n.) A melting.
Snow-broth :: Snow-broth (n.) Snow and water mixed, or snow just melted; very cold liquor..
Pattern :: Pattern (n.) A full-sized model around which a mold of sand is made, to receive the melted metal. It is usually made of wood and in several parts, so as to be removed from the mold without injuring it..
Smeltery :: Smeltery (n.) A house or place for smelting.
Crop :: Crop (n.) Tin ore prepared for smelting.
Bosh :: Bosh (n.) In forging and smelting, a trough in which tools and ingots are cooled..
Emollescence :: Emollescence (n.) That degree of softness in a body beginning to melt which alters its shape; the first or lowest degree of fusibility.
Furnace :: Furnace (n.) An inclosed place in which heat is produced by the combustion of fuel, as for reducing ores or melting metals, for warming a house, for baking pottery, etc.; as, an iron furnace; a hot-air furnace; a glass furnace; a boiler furnace, etc..
Sweal :: Sweal (v. i.) To melt and run down, as the tallow of a candle; to waste away without feeding the flame..
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