melrose (melroz)

[ IMG:content-0460.png:[blocks in formation] meltada (mel-täʼdä), n . [E. Ind.] A murine rodent found in Madras, Golunda meltada. J. E. Gray. melter (mel'ter), n. 1. One who melts; spe- IMG:content-0461.jpg:[graphic] red rose, clarified honey, and diluted alcohol. What I used was a mixture of melrose with sixteen drops of the muriatic acid. Sir W. Fordyce, On Muriatic Acid, p. 8. melt1 (melt), v.; pret. melted , pp. melted (or molten), ppr. melting . [ melten (pret. malt , pp. molten ), melt an , milt an (pret. mealt , pp. molten ), melt, = Icel. melt a , melt, digest; Gr. μέλδειν, liquefy, melt; cf. OBulg. mludů, soft. Akin to malt1 , milt1 .] I. in trans. 1. To become liquid through heat; be changed from a fixed or solid to a flowing state by heat. This Pandare that neyghe malt for wo and rout he. Chaucer , Troilus, i. 582. These fellows commonly, which use such deceitfulne and guiles, can speak so finely that a man would think butter should scant melt in their mouths. Latimer , Misc. Selec. O, that this too too solid flesh would melt , Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew! Shak., Hamlet, i. 2. 129. 2. To suffer di olution or extinction; be di ipated or wasted. All the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away. Ex. xv. 15. My heart melted away in secret raptures. Add is on , Vision of Mirza. 3. To be softened to love, pity, tenderne , sympathy, or the like; become tender, mild, or gentle. I should melt at an offender's tears. Thou melter of strong minds. the melting of gold and silver for coining. The melter melteth in vayne, for the euell is not taken away from them. Bible of 1551, Jer. vi. 29. Beau. and Fl., False One, ii. 3. The entire melting requires about sixteen hours, and is carefully watched by the master melter, who urges the furnaces to their utmost intensity. Harper's Mag., LXXIX. 250. 2. A furnace, pot, or crucible used for melting any substance; a melting-pot: as, a melter for combining the ingredients in the manufacture of sealing-wax. Workshop Receipts. melter2 (mel'tėr), n. Same as milter. melting (mel'ting), p. a. 1. Disposed to melt or soften; feeling or showing tenderne ; tender; compa ionate. To kindle cowards, and to steel with valour The melting spirits of women. They say women have tender hearts; I know not; I am sure mine melts . Fletcher, Humorous Lieutenant, v. 3. 4. To be weakened or broken; be subdued, as by fear. As soon as we had heard these things, our hearts did melt , neither did there remain any more courage in any Josh. ii. man. 5. To pa , as one thing into another, so that the point of junction is imperceptible; pa by imperceptible degrees; blend; shade. The twilight melted into morn. Tennyson, Day-Dream, The Departure. II. trans. 1. To reduce from a solid to a fluid state by means of heat; liquefy; fuse: as, to melt iron, lead, wax, or tallow; to melt ice. When sun doth melt their snow. Shak ., Lucrece, 1. 1218. Get me some drink, George; I am almost molten with fretting. Beau . and Fl ., Knight of Burning Pestle, iii. 5. Inscriptions, victories, buildings, and a you sand other barbarous ages. Add is on, Ancient Medals, iii. matically reproducing a piece of music by means of a melograph stencil. IMG:content-0462.jpg:[blocks in formation] 2. Loosely, to make a solution of; liquefy by solution; di olve: as, to melt sugar in water. 3. Figuratively, to soften, as by a warming and kindly influence; render gentle or susceptible to mild influences, as to love, pity, or tenderne . For pity melts the mind to love. Her noble heart was molten in her breast. Dryden , Tennyson , Prince , vi. =Syn. To mollify, subdue; Melt, Di olve, Thaw, Fuse. Two words, popularly confounded, though scientifically very distinct, are melt and di olve. The former signifies to bring a substance from a solid to a liquid condition by the agency of heat alone; the latter signifies the bringing about of this result by distributing the particles of the substance acted on among the particles of another substance which is itself liquid, and this proce is termed the solution of the solid substance. Thaw differs from melt in being applicable only to substances whose ordinary condition is that of a liquid, and which have become solid in consequence of the abstraction of heat, and therefore return to the liquid condition as if of themselves. (Chambers's Journal.) Di olve is much used as a synonym of either melt or thaw. Fuse is sometimes synonymous with melt (as, to fuse a wire by electricity), but it is more often used of melting together: as, bell-metal is made by fusing copper and tin. See the definitions of these words.