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despair. The distraction of the children, who saw both their parents together, would have melted the hardest heart. Tatler.

See Draw, v. t. & i. Drawn butter, butter melter and prepared to be used as a sort of gravy. -- Drawn fowl, an eviscerated fowl. -- Drawn game or battle, one in which neither party wins; one equally contested. -- Drawn fox, one driven from cover. Shak. -- Drawn work, ornamental work made by drawing out threads from…

The scum or refuse matter which is thrown off, or falls from, metals in smelting the ore, or in the process of melting; recrement.

The whole material composing the world. The elements shall melt with fervent heat. 2 Peter iii. 10.

ing a fusible substance from one less fusible, by means of a degree of heat sufficient to melt the one and not the other, as an alloy of copper and lead; liquation. Ure.

That degree of softness in a body beginning to melt which alters its shape; the first or lowest degree of fusibility.

support without breaking or yielding; as, metals endure a certain degree of heat without melting; to endure wind and weather. Both were of shining steel, and wrought so pure, As might the strokes of two such arms endure. Dryden.

The European smelt (Osmerus eperlanus).

Of maximum fusibility; -- said of an alloy or mixture which has the lowest melting point which it is possible to obtain by the combination of the given components.

The iron used for trying the melted glass to see if is fit to work, and for shaping the rings at the mouths of bottles.

Hot; glowing; boiling; burning; as, a fervent summer. The elements shall melt with fervent heat. 2 Pet. iii. 10.

ole at the back of a puddling furnace, at which the slags pass out. (b) The tap hole of a melting furnace. Knight.

To become liquid; to melt. The mountains flowed down at thy presence. Is. lxiv. 3.

Capable of being melted or fused, as a mineral. Holland. -- Flux"i*ble*ness, n.

The Cornish name for a forge used for smelting tin. Raymond

g; manifestation of tenderness. Cyrus made no . . . amorous fondling To fan her pride, or melt her guardless heart. Mickle.

A dish made of cheese, eggs, butter, etc., melted together.

To form by melting a metal, and pouring it into a mold; to cast. "Whereof to found their engines." Milton.

The art of smelting and casting metals.

A flood or overflowing of a stream caused by heavy rains or melted snow; a sudden inundation. Cracked the sky, as ice in rivers When the freshet is at highest. Longfellow.