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Molten   /mˈoʊltən/   Listen
verb
Melt  v. t.  (past melted; past part. molten; pres. part. melting)  
1.
To reduce from a solid to a liquid state, as by heat; to liquefy; as, to melt wax, tallow, or lead; to melt ice or snow.
2.
Hence: To soften, as by a warming or kindly influence; to relax; to render gentle or susceptible to mild influences; sometimes, in a bad sense, to take away the firmness of; to weaken. "Thou would'st have... melted down thy youth." "For pity melts the mind to love."
Synonyms: To liquefy; fuse; thaw; mollify; soften.


Melt  v. i.  (past melted; past part. molten; pres. part. melting)  
1.
To be changed from a solid to a liquid state under the influence of heat; as, butter and wax melt at moderate temperatures.
2.
To dissolve; as, sugar melts in the mouth.
3.
Hence: To be softened; to become tender, mild, or gentle; also, to be weakened or subdued, as by fear. "My soul melteth for heaviness." "Melting with tenderness and kind compassion."
4.
To lose distinct form or outline; to blend. See fondue. "The soft, green, rounded hills, with their flowing outlines, overlapping and melting into each other."
5.
To disappear by being dispersed or dissipated; as, the fog melts away.


adjective
Molten  adj.  
1.
Melted; being in a state of fusion, esp. when the liquid state is produced by a high degree of heat; as, molten iron.
2.
Made by melting and casting the substance or metal of which the thing is formed; as, a molten image.





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"Molten" Quotes from Famous Books



... way with a rending such as must have been sounded in the days when a molten globe was cooling. From the base of the dam sucking tongues had licked out boulders that upheld the formation as a keystone holds an arch. It went into collapse with an explosive splintering and left fang-like reefs still standing. Through ...
— A Pagan of the Hills • Charles Neville Buck
... without stitching if the boric-acid solution (ten grains to the ounce of water) is dropped into the eye four times daily. Burns of the inner surface of the lids follow the entrance of hot water, hot ashes, lime, acids, and molten metals. Burns produced by lime are treated by dropping a solution of vinegar (one part of vinegar to four of water) into the eye, while those caused by acids are relieved by similar treatment with ...
— The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI) • Various
... immediately flung himself at full length on his chest, to see what could be seen of the lake of fire. A gust of hot, asphyxiating air smote his face and set him coughing, but he did not get up until he had stared his fill at the huge sea of green, molten lava, tossing and swirling at no great distance ...
— A Voyage to Arcturus • David Lindsay
... Prescott," interrupted Kennedy, detaining him with a look. "There was something I was about to say when Dr. Burnham's urgent message prevented it. I did not take the trouble even to find out how you obtained that little globule of molten gold from the crucible of alleged copper. There are so many tricks by which the gold could have been 'salted' and brought forth at the right moment that it was hardly worth while. Besides, ...
— The Poisoned Pen • Arthur B. Reeve
... all this there lie, as under the cultivated crust of this fair world, deep abysses of soul, where volcanic masses of molten lava surge and shake the tremulous earth. In the gay and bustling Boulevards, a friend, an old resident of Paris, poised out to me, as we rode, the bullet marks that scarred the houses—significant tokens of what ...
— Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands V2 • Harriet Beecher Stowe


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