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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Melt \Melt\, v. t. [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 WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
melted
adj : changed from a solid to a liquid state; "rivers filled to
overflowing by melted snow" [syn: {liquid}, {liquified}]
[ant: {unmelted}]
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