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▪ I. melting, vbl. n.|ˈmɛltɪŋ|
[f. melt v.1 + -ing1.]
1. The action of the vb. melt; an instance of this.
1390–1Earl Derby's Exp. (Camden) 86 Et pro meltyng de sepo et iiij lb. pinguedinum, vj s. pr. 1444Rolls of Parlt. V. 109/1 The maistr' of his mynt..to have and take for his labour of double meltyng, blaunchyng, wast and other costs vii d in nombre. 1483Cath. Angl. 234/1 A Meltynge, deliquium, liquamen, liquefaccio. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 150 There foloweth the moost blessed effecte, that is a liquefaction or a meltynge of the soule. 1722Bp. E. Gibson tr. Camden's Brit. (ed. 2) I. p. clxxiii, Ley, lee, lay, are all from the Saxon Leaᵹ, a field or pasture; by the usual melting of the letter ᵹ. 1740W. Seward Jrnl. 13 There was much melting under both Sermons. 1775S. J. Pratt Liberal Opin. lxxx. (1783) III. 94, I shall be with you and your good man again, in the melting of a lump of sugar. 1797tr. C. De Massoul's Treat. Art Paint. 57 If, after every melting, you perceive that any air-bubbles have arisen, or [etc.]. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) II. 20 Even in abscesses, where there is a loss of substance, it is not the melting down of the solids that gives rise to the pus. 1868Joynson Metals 68 The strength is increased up to a certain number of meltings. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. IV. 477 The injections [of thyroid gland extract]..were found to bring about a rapid melting away of the swelling.
†b. Surveyor of the Meltings: the former designation of a certain officer of the mint. Hence the Meltings: the office of the Surveyor of the Meltings.
1684E. Chamberlayne Pres. St. Eng. ii. 224 The Surveyor of the Melting. 1766Entick London IV. 341 Surveyor of the meltings, clerk of the irons. 1807–8Syd. Smith Plymley's Lett. iii. Wks. (1850) 497 Suppose the person to whom he [sc. the Chancellor of the Exchequer] applied for the Meltings had withstood every plea of wife and fourteen children, no business, and good character, and refused him this paltry little office [etc.]. Ibid., But do not refuse me the Irons and the Meltings now.
2. concr. pl. That which has been melted; a substance produced by melting. ? Obs.
1558Warde (title) The Secretes of the reverende Maister Alexis of Piemovnt. Containyng excellente remedies against diuers diseases,..with the manner to make distillations,..fusions and meltynges. 1712J. James tr. Le Blond's Gardening 188 Such Waters..are no more than a Collection of Rain-Water, and the Meltings of Snow.
3. attrib. and Comb.
a. Simple attributive, as melting chamber, melting-furnace, melting-oven, melting-pan, melting-place, melting-shop.
b. Special comb.: melting-book, an account-book kept to record quantities of metal melted; melting-cone (see quot.); melting-heat, the degree of heat which is necessary to melt a given substance; melting-house, a building in which the process of melting is carried on, esp. at the Mint; melting-point (see quot. 1842); melting-pot, a vessel in which metals or other substances are melted (phrases, to put or cast into the melting pot; often fig. with reference to thorough remodelling of institutions, etc.).
1622Malynes Anc. Law-Merch. 283 As for your *Melting booke where the allay is entred, if you will charge the Mint-master thereby, let it be done distinctly for siluer, and copper, or [etc.].
1890W. J. Gordon Foundry 14 Into these red-hot chambers the fresh gas and air are turned and heated before they enter the *melting-chamber.
1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., *Melting Cone, in assaying, is a small vessel made of copper or brass, of a conic figure, and of a nicely polished surface within.
1758Reid tr. Macquer's Chym. I. 187 The *melting furnace is designed for applying the greatest force of heat to the most fixed bodies, such as metals and earths.
1868Joynson Metals 102 The *melting heat is 442° Fahr.
1431Test. Ebor. (Surtees) II. 16 Lego..Johanni Beverlay omnia instrumenta et necessaria shopæ meæ ad le *meltynghouse. 1647Haward Crown Rev. 23 Surveyor of the melting-house. 1778J. Miller in Grose Antiq. Repert. (1807) I. 241, I should refer the three Roman numerals as a melting-house mark..to the number of Pigs melted. 1854Hull Improv. Act 33 Any candle-house, melting-house, melting-place or soap-house.
1683Pettus Fleta Min. iii. x. 247 The *melting Oven to try the Copper Oars from the copper-stone.
1884Imp. & Mach. Rev. 1 Dec. 6711/1 The sugar..passes..into the ‘blow-ups’ or *melting pans.
1483Cath. Angl. 234/1 A *Meltynge place, conflatorium.
1842Francis Dict. Arts etc., s.v., That point of the thermometer which indicates the heat at which any particular solid becomes fluid, is termed the *melting point of that solid. 1898Rev. Brit. Pharm. 51 Solubilities and melting-points are given in much fuller detail than in the last edition.
1545Rates Custom-ho. b viij, *Meltynge pottes for goldsmethes. 1679Dryden Pref. to Tr. & Cr. Ess. (ed. Ker) I. 227 If his embroideries were burnt down, there would still be silver at the bottom of the melting-pot. 1855Milman Lat. Chr. xiv. ix. IX. 311 The avarice which cast all these wonderful statues into the melting pot to turn them into money. 1861Fairbairn Iron 181 These are melted in steel melting-pots. 1887J. Morley in Pall Mall G. 10 Feb. 11/2, I think it will be best for the Constitution of this country not to send it to the melting-pot.
1555Eden Decades Pref. (Arb.) 54 In the two *meltynge shoppes of the gold mines of the Ilande of Hispaniola is molten yearely three hundreth thousande pounde weyght. 1892Labour Commission Gloss., Melting Shop and Plant, the furnaces used in the melting and converting of iron into steel and the producers for the making of gas for such furnaces.
▪ II. melting, ppl. a.|ˈmɛltɪŋ|
[f. melt v.1 + -ing2.]
That melts, in senses of the vb.
1. In intransitive senses:
a. That is in process of liquefaction; † capable of liquefaction, fusible (obs.). Also, † decaying.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvi. vii. (1495) 556 The element and mater of whiche all meltyng metall is made [L. omnium liquidabilium metallorum]. 1577Hanmer Anc. Eccl. Hist. (1650) 161 His whole body larded and distilled much like unto..melting wax. 16051st Pt. Ieronimo iii. ii. 163 Honord Funerall for thy melting corse. 1799G. Smith Laboratory I. 76 The whole is to be kept in a melting state for some minutes.
b. Yielding to tender emotion; feeling or expressing tenderness or pity; tearful. Often in phr. the melting mood, after Shakes.
1593Shakes. Lucr. 1227 Each flowre moistned like a melting eye. 1597― 2 Hen. IV, iv. iv. 32 A Hand Open (as Day) for melting Charitie. 1601― Jul. C. ii. i. 122 To steele with valour The melting spirits of women. 1604― Oth. v. ii. 349 Albeit vn-vsed to the melting moode. 1658Whole Duty Man xv. §3 Our compassions are to be most melting towards them of all others. 1712–14Pope Rape Lock i. 71 What guards the purity of Melting maids In courtly balls, and midnight masquerades? 1879Froude Cæsar viii. 72 He was a high-spirited ornamental youth, with soft melting eyes.
c. Of sound: Liquid and soft, delicately modulated. Also of form, colour, etc.
1626Bacon Sylva §223 No Instrument hath the Sound so Melting and prolonged as the Irish Harp. 1632Milton L'Allegro 142 The melting voice through mazes running. 1713Gay Fan ii. 14 And thus in melting sounds her speech began. a1761Cawthorn Poems (1771) 37 That step, whose motion seems to swim, That melting harmony of limb. 1849Ruskin Sev. Lamps iv. §39. 129 The most exquisite harmonies..soft and full, of flushed and melting spaces of colour. 1885G. Allen Babylon v, Her pretty, melting native dialect.
d. That ‘melts in the mouth’, tender. Said esp. of varieties of pear; also of those varieties of peach that part easily from the stone: cf. melter.
1605B. Jonson Volpone i. i. (1607) B b, You shall ha' some will swallow A melting heire, as glibly, as your Dutch Will pills of butter. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp. s.v. Nectarine, This is a very well flavoured nectarine, of a soft, melting juice, and parts from the stone. 1766Complete Farmer s.v. Stock, Summer peaches (commonly distinguished by the appellation of melting peaches). 1859Darwin Orig. Spec. i. (1872) 27 No one would expect to raise a first-rate melting pear from the seed of the wild pear.
2. In transitive senses:
a. That liquifies or dissolves (rare).
b. That softens the heart; deeply touching or affecting.
1611Bible Isa. lxiv. 2 As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boyle. 1656J. Owen Mortif Sin Wks. 1851 VI. 77 God's peace is humbling, melting peace. 1695J. Edwards Perfect. Script. 439 The charms of a most melting and affectionate rhetorick. 1715–20Pope Iliad. xxi. 83 While thus these melting words attempt his heart. 1739Joe Miller's Jests No. 118 A melting Sermon being preach'd in a Country Church. 1826E. Irving Babylon II. 409 When Jeremy the prophet poured over them his melting lamentations in vain.
3. Comb.: melting-hearted adj., melting-heartedness.
1593Nashe Christ's T. 31 Exclayming, for some melting-harted man, to come and rydde them out of theyr lingring-lyuing death. 1647Trapp Comm. 1 Cor. xi. 11 There must be all mutuall respects and melting-heartednesse betwixt married couples. |