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Freshet :: Freshet (a.) A flood or overflowing of a stream caused by heavy rains or melted snow; a sudden inundation.

Rupert''s Drop :: Rupert's drop () A kind of glass drop with a long tail, made by dropping melted glass into water. It is remarkable for bursting into fragments when the surface is scratched or the tail broken; -- so called from Prince Rupert, nephew of Charles I., by whom they were first brought to England. Called also Rupert's ball, and glass tear..

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..

Raw :: Raw (superl.) Not tried; not melted and strained; as, raw tallow.

Melter :: Melter (n.) One who, or that which, melts..

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..

Diluvium :: Diluvium (n.) A deposit of superficial loam, sand, gravel, stones, etc., caused by former action of flowing waters, or the melting of glacial ice..

Sparling :: Sparling (n.) The European smelt (Osmerus eperlanus).

Colliquation :: Colliquation (n.) A processive wasting or melting away of the solid parts of the animal system with copious excretions of liquids by one or more passages.

Smelter :: Smelter (n.) One who, or that which, smelts..

Ferret :: Ferret (n.) The iron used for trying the melted glass to see if is fit to work, and for shaping the rings at the mouths of bottles..

Tallow :: Tallow (n.) The suet or fat of animals of the sheep and ox kinds, separated from membranous and fibrous matter by 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..

Dissolve :: Dissolve (v. t.) To convert into a liquid by means of heat, moisture, etc.,; to melt; to liquefy; to soften..

Dissolving :: Dissolving (a.) Melting; breaking up; vanishing.

Deliquium :: Deliquium (n.) A melting or maudlin mood.

Thaw :: Thaw (n.) The melting of ice, snow, or other congealed matter; the resolution of ice, or the like, into the state of a fluid; liquefaction by heat of anything congealed by frost; also, a warmth of weather sufficient to melt that which is congealed..

Deliquiate :: Deliquiate (v. i.) To melt and become liquid by absorbing water from the air; to deliquesce.

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..

Snow-broth :: Snow-broth (n.) Snow and water mixed, or snow just melted; very cold liquor..

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