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Liquefaction; the act of causing (something) to melt, or the process of becoming melted. Melting point (Chem.), the degree of temperature at which a solid substance melts or fuses; as, the melting point of ice is 0º Centigrade or 32º Fahr., that of urea is 132º Centigrade. -- Melting pot, a vessel in which anything is…

a. & n. from Smelt. Smelting furnace (Metal.), a furnace in which ores are smelted or reduced.

elements, belonging to the alkaline earth group; a metal having a silver-white color, and melting at a very high temperature. It is difficult to obtain the pure metal, from the facility with which it becomes oxidized in the air. Atomic weight,

A flatulent disease of sheep. Blast furnace, a furnace, usually a shaft furnace for smelting ores, into which air is forced by pressure. -- Blast hole, a hole in the bottom of a pump stock through which water enters. -- Blast nozzle, a fixed or variable orifice in the delivery end of a blast pipe; -- called also blas…

In forging and smelting, a trough in which tools and ingots are cooled.

a resinous substance prepared from the exudation of the Norway spruce (Abies excelsa) by melting in hot water and straining through cloth. The genuine Burgundy pitch, supposed to have been first prepared in Burgundy, is rare, but there are many imitations. It has a yellowish brown color, is translucent and hard, but v…

A small saucer of clay for roasting or melting samples of ores, etc.; a scorifier.

A melting together; the act of melting; fusion. When sand and ashes are well melted together and suffered to cool, there is generated, by the colliquation, that sort of concretion we call "glass". Boyle.

Causing rapid waste or exhaustion; melting; as, collequative sweats.

A melting together; the reduction of different bodies into one mass by fusion. The incorporation of metals by simple colliquefaction. Bacon.

Food for dogs, made from the refuse of tallow melting.

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.

A melting. [Obs.]

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