Definition of melting

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Melting (a.) Causing to melt; becoming melted; -- used literally or figuratively; as, a melting heat; a melting appeal; a melting mood..

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Gluepot :: Gluepot (n.) A utensil for melting glue, consisting of an inner pot holding the glue, immersed in an outer one containing water which is heated to soften the glue..
Endure :: Endure (v. t.) To remain firm under; to sustain; to undergo; to support without breaking or yielding; as, metals endure a certain degree of heat without melting; to endure wind and weather..
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.
Bosh :: Bosh (n.) In forging and smelting, a trough in which tools and ingots are cooled..
Stearolic :: Stearin (n.) One of the constituents of animal fats and also of some vegetable fats, as the butter of cacao. It is especially characterized by its solidity, so that when present in considerable quantity it materially increases the hardness, or raises the melting point, of the fat, as in mutton tallow. Chemically, it is a compound of glyceryl with three molecules of stearic acid, and hence is technically called tristearin, or glyceryl tristearate..
Deliquation :: Deliquation (n.) A melting.
Cullet :: Cullet (v. t.) Broken glass for remelting.
Founding :: Founding (n.) The art of smelting and casting metals.
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..
Foge :: Foge (n.) The Cornish name for a forge used for smelting tin.
Dissolvent :: Dissolvent (n.) That which has the power of dissolving or melting other substances, esp. by mixture with them; a menstruum; a solvent..
Regulus :: Regulus (n.) The button, globule, or mass of metal, in a more or less impure state, which forms in the bottom of the crucible in smelting and reduction of ores..
Cruset :: Cruset (n.) A goldsmith's crucible or melting pot.
Crop :: Crop (n.) Tin ore prepared for smelting.
Kish :: Kish (n.) A workman's name for the graphite which forms incidentally in iron smelting.
Lancet :: Lancet (n.) An iron bar used for tapping a melting furnace.
Refusion :: Refusion (n.) New or repeated melting, as of metals..
Melting :: Melting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mel.
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..
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