Search the Dictionary

A crucible or melting pot; a cruset. Crabb.

Tin ore prepared for smelting.

A vessel or melting pot, composed of some very refractory substance, as clay, graphite, platinum, and used for melting and calcining substances which require a strong degree of heat, as metals, ores, etc.

A goldsmith's crucible or melting pot.

Broken glass for remelting.

A furnace for melting iron or other metals in large quantity, -- used chiefly in foundries and steel works.

A pot, bucket, or basin, in which molten plate glass is carried from the melting pot to the casting table.

To melt or be dissolved; to deliquesce. [Obs.] Boyle.

A melting. [Obs.]

The act of deliquescing or liquefying; process by which anything deliquesces; tendency to melt.

To melt and become liquid by absorbing water from the air; to deliquesce. Fourcroy.

A melting or dissolution in the air, or in a moist place; a liquid condition; as, a salt falls into a deliquium. [R.]

icial loam, sand, gravel, stones, etc., caused by former action of flowing waters, or the melting of glacial ice.

never dip thy lands. Dryden. Dipped candle, a candle made by repeatedly dipping a wick in melted tallow. -- To dip snuff, to take snuff by rubbing it on the gums and teeth. [Southern U. S.] -- To dip the colors (Naut.), to lower the colors and return them to place; -- a form of naval salute.

To melt; to dissolve; to thaw. [Obs.]

Change from a solid to a fluid state; solution by heat or moisture; liquefaction; melting.

To convert into a liquid by means of heat, moisture, etc.,; to melt; to liquefy; to soften. As if the world were all dissolved to tears. Shak.

That which has the power of dissolving or melting other substances, esp. by mixture with them; a menstruum; a solvent. Melted in the crucible dissolvents. A. Smith. The secret treaty of December acted as an immediate dissolvent to the truce. Mothley.

Melting; breaking up; vanishing. -- Dis*solv"ing*ly, adv. Dissolving view, a picture which grows dim and is gradually replaced by another on the same field; -- an effect produced by magic lanterns.

To dissolve or melt. [R.] Swords by the lightning's subtle force distilled. Addison.