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of Melt. Chaucer. Spenser.

The act or process of changing the feathers, hair, skin, etc.; molting.

Capable of assuming a molten state; meltable; fusible. [Obs.]

n a state of fusion, esp. when the liquid state is produced by a high degree of heat; as, molten iron.

Much; very; as, molto adagio, very slow.

A young salmon two or three years old, when it has acquired its silvery color.

A bird one year old, or that has once molted.

that is basic, or not siliceous, is used, and additions of basic material are made to the molten charge during treatment. Opposed to acid process, above. Called also Thomas process.

The process of washing molten pig iron by adding iron oxide, proposed by I. Lowthian Bell of England about 1875.

hat the latter contains, through the agency of a blast of air which is forced through the molten metal; -- so called from Sir Henry Bessemer, an English engineer, the inventor of the process.

pring. Canst thou mark when the hinds do calve Job xxxix. 1. The grassy clods now calved. Molton.

impressions, or of shaping metal or plaster in a mold; the act or the process of pouring molten metal into a mold.

iron mold or portion of a mold, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it. Raymond.

A retort, used in the Bessemer process, in which molten cast iron is decarburized and converted into steel by a blast of air forced through the liquid metal.

The exterior portion of the earth, formerly universally supposed to inclose a molten interior.

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

ocess of devitrifying, or the state of being devitrified. Specifically, the conversion of molten glassy matter into a stony mass by slow cooling, the result being the formation of crystallites, microbites, etc., in the glassy base, which are then called devitrification products.

To shed an old covering or condition preliminary to taking on a new one; to molt. There is reason to suppose that very old crayfish do not exuviate every year. Huxley.

icularly, the outer cuticular layer, as the shells of crustaceans, skins of snakes, etc.; molting; ecdysis.

A counterfeit; a false appearance; an imposture. For his molten image is falsehood. Jer. x. 14. No falsehood can endure Touch of celestial temper. Milton.