*melt*

n. (Zool.) See 2d Milt. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To be changed from a solid to a liquid state under the influence of heat; as, butter and wax melt at moderate temperatures. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To dissolve; as, sugar melts in the mouth. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Hence: To be softened; to become tender, mild, or gentle; also, to be weakened or subdued, as by fear. [ 1913 Webster ]

My soul melteth for heaviness. Ps. cxix. 28. [ 1913 Webster ]

Melting with tenderness and kind compassion. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To lose distinct form or outline; to blend. See fondue. [ 1913 Webster ]

The soft, green, rounded hills, with their flowing outlines, overlapping and melting into each other. J. C. Shairp. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To disappear by being dispersed or dissipated; as, the fog melts away. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being melted. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, melts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Liquefaction; the act of causing (something) to melt, or the process of becoming melted. [ 1913 Webster ]

Melting point (Chem.), the degree of temperature at which a solid substance melts or fuses; as, the melting point of ice is 0° Centigrade or 32° Fahr., that of urea is 132° Centigrade. Pressure affects the melting point somewhat, and if not specified the melting point is usually taken to be at atmospheric pressure. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Causing to melt; becoming melted; -- used literally or figuratively; as, a melting heat; a melting appeal; a melting mood. -- Melt"ing*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. 1. A vessel in which anything is melted; a crucible. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Sociology) (fig.) A place where people of different backgrounds become similar in culture. The United States has often been referred to as a melting pot, though the differences in cultures of recently arrived immigrants persists beyond the generation of immigrants. [ PJC ]

n. [ Etymol. uncertain. ] A kind of stout woolen cloth with unfinished face and without raised nap. A commoner variety has a cotton warp. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To melt again. [ 1913 Webster ]

imp. & p. p. of Smell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. smelt, smylt; akin to Dan. smelt. ] 1. (Zool.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The most important species are the European smelt (Osmerus eperlans) (called also eperlan, sparling, and spirling), the Eastern American smelt (Osmerus mordax), the California smelt (Osmerus thalichthys), and the surf smelt (Hypomesus olidus). The name is loosely applied to various other small fishes, as the lant, the California tomcod, the spawn eater, the silversides. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: A gull; a simpleton. [ Obs. ] Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sand smelt (Zool.), the silverside. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Smelted; p. pr. & vb. n. Smelting. ] [ Of foreign origin; cf. Sw. smälta, D. smelten, Dan. smelte, Icel. smelta, G. schmelzen OHG. smelzan, smelzen; probably akin to Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;. Cf. Enamel, Melt, Mute, v. i., Smalt. ] (Metal.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, smelts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A house or place for smelting. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A fish, the bib. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]