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A smelt; a sparling. [Prov. Eng.]

Iron ore, in masses, reduced but not melted or worked.

Strictly, the hole through which melted metal is poured into the gate, and thence into the mold.

acid, obtained in the form of white crystalline scales, soluble in alcohol and ether. It melts to an oily liquid at 69°C.C18H36O2, CH3.(CH2)16.COOH; sodium stearate, with sodium palmitate, is the main component of ordinary bar soaps (Such as Ivory soap).

when present in considerable quantity it materially increases the hardness, or raises the melting point, of the fat, as in mutton tallow. Chemically, it is a compound of glyceryl with three molecules of stearic acid, and hence is technically called tristearin, or glyceryl tristearate.

A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

To reduce to tenderness; to melt; to soften; as, to subdue ferocity by tears.

densation; specifically, to evaporate or volatilize from the solid state without apparent melting; -- said of those substances, like arsenic, benzoic acid, etc., which do not exhibit a liquid form on heating, except under increased pressure.

To strew or lay under anything. [Obs.] The melted glass being supported by the substrated sand. Boyle.

al, especially the harder fat about the kidneys and loins in beef and mutton, which, when melted and freed from the membranes, forms tallow.

ic regions, in vast beds mixed with gypsum and various earthy materials, from which it is melted out. Symbol S. Atomic weight 32. The specific gravity of ordinary octohedral sulphur is 2.05; of prismatic sulphur, 1.96.

any one of numerous species of California embiotocoid fishes. See Embiotocoid. -- Surf smelt. (Zoöl.) See Smelt. -- Surf whiting. (Zoöl.) See under Whiting.

To melt and waste away; to singe. See Sweal, v.

To melt and run down, as the tallow of a candle; to waste away without feeding the flame. [Written also swale.] Sir W. Scott.

y the strength he has given to his figures, and by sweetening his lights and shadows, and melting them into each other. Dryden.

fat of animals of the sheep and ox kinds, separated from membranous and fibrous matter by melting.

A kind of clay for making melting pots. Percy Smith.

The gate of a mold, through which the melted metal is poured; runner, geat.

To pour, as steel, from a melting pot; to fill, as a mold, with molten metal.

A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement. Our ingots, tests, and many mo. Chaucer.