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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Melt \Melt\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Melted} (obs.) p. p. {Molten}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Melting}.] [AS. meltan; akin to Gr. me'ldein, E. malt, and prob. to E. smelt, v. [root]108. Cf. {Smelt}, v., {Malt}, {Milt} the spleen.]
1. 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.
2. 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.
Thou would'st have . . . melted down thy youth. --Shak.
For pity melts the mind to love. --Dryden.
Syn: To liquefy; fuse; thaw; mollify; soften.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Melting \Melt"ing\, noun Liquefaction; the act of causing (something) to melt, or the process of becoming melted.
{Melting point} (Chem.), the degree of temperature at which a solid substance melts or fuses; as, the melting point of ice is 0[deg] Centigrade or 32[deg] Fahr., that of urea is 132[deg] Centigrade. Pressure affects the melting point somewhat, and if not specified the melting point is usually taken to be at atmospheric pressure.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Melting \Melt"ing\ a. Causing to melt; becoming melted; -- used literally or figuratively; as, a melting heat; a melting appeal; a melting mood. -- {Melt"ing*ly}, adverb
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
melting
adjective: becoming liquid [syn: {liquescent}]
noun: the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid; "the power failure caused a refrigerator melt that was a disaster"; "the thawing of a frozen turkey takes several hours" [syn: {thaw}, {melt}, {thawing}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
102 Moby Thesaurus words for "melting": adoring, affectionate, blackout, bleeding, blocking, charitable, clement, colliquation, colliquative, commiserative, compassionate, condolent, conjugal, decoagulation, deliquescence, deliquium, dematerialization, demonstrative, departure, devoted, disappearance, disappearing, dispersion, dissipation, dissolution, dissolutional, dissolutive, dissolving, eclipse, elimination, erasure, evanescence, evanescent, evaporating, evaporation, extinction, fadeaway, fadeout, fading, faithful, filial, fleeting, fluidification, fluidization, flying, fond, forbearant, fugitive, fusibility, fusing, fusion, gentle, going, human, humane, husbandly, languishing, leaching, lenient, liquation, liquefaction, liquefactive, liquefying, liquescence, liquescency, lixiviation, lovelorn, lovesick, lovesome, loving, maternal, merciful, occultation, parental, passing, paternal, percolation, pitying, romantic, running, ruthful, sentimental, soft, softhearted, solubilization, solution, sympathetic, sympathizing, tender, tenderhearted, thaw, thawing, thermoplasticity, transient, unclotting, understanding, uxorious, vanishing, vanishing point, warmhearted, wifely, wipe
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