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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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Capable of being melted.

LIQUATE v. 2 definitions

To melt; to become liquid. [Obs.] Woodward.

LIQUATION n. 2 definitions

The act or operation of making or becoming liquid; also, the capacity of becoming liquid.

LIQUEFACIENT n. 2 definitions

That which serves to liquefy.

LIQUEFACTION n. 3 definitions

The act or operation of making or becoming liquid; especially, the conversion of a solid into a liquid by the sole agency of heat.

Capable of being changed from a solid to a liquid state.

That which liquefies.

LIQUEFY v. 2 definitions

To convert from a solid form to that of a liquid; to melt; to dissolve; and technically, to melt by the sole agency of heat.

The quality or state of being liquescent. Johnson.

Tending to become liquid; inclined to melt to melt; melting.

An aromatic alcoholic cordial.

LIQUID a. 8 definitions

Flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid. Yes, though he go upon the plane and liquid water which will receive no step. Tyndale.

A transparent limpid liquid, slightly blue in color, consisting of a mixture of liquefied oxygen and nitrogen. It is prepared by subjecting air to great pressure and then cooling it by its own expansion to a temperature below the boiling point of its constituents (N -194º C; O -183º C.).

LIQUIDAMBAR n. 2 definitions

A genus consisting of two species of tall trees having star- shaped leaves, and woody burlike fruit. Liquidambar styraciflua is the North American sweet qum, and L. Orientalis is found in Asia Minor.

See Liquidambar.

LIQUIDATE v. 5 definitions

To determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness); or, where there is an indebtedness to more than one person, to determine the precise amount of (each indebtedness); to make the amount of (an indebtedness); clear and certain. A debt or demand is liquidated whenever the amount due is agree…

The act or process of liquidating; the state of being liquidated. To go into liquidation (Law), to turn over to a trustee one's assets and accounts, in order that the several amounts of one's indebtedness be authoritatively ascertained, and that the assets may be applied toward their discharge.

LIQUIDATOR n. 2 definitions

One who, or that which, liquidates.

The state or quality of being liquid.

To render liquid.