Melt
King James Dictionary [1]
MELT, Eng.smelt,smalt. We have in these words decisive evidence that s, in smelten, &c. is a prefix. Melt, in English, is regular, forming melted for its past tense and passive participle. The old participle molten, is used only as an adjective.
1. To dissolve to make liquid to liquefy to reduce from a solid to a liquid or flowing state by heat as, to melt wax, tallow or lead to melt ice or snow. 2. To dissolve to reduce to first principles. 3. To soften to love or tenderness.
For pity melts the mind to love.
4. To waste away to dissipate.
In general riot melted down thy youth.
5. To dishearten. Joshua 14
MELT, To become liquid to dissolve to be changed from a fixed or solid to a flowing state.
And whiter snow in minutes melts away.
1. To be softened to love, pity, tenderness or sympathy to become tender, mild or gentle.
Melting with tenderness and mild compassion.
2. To be dissolved to lose substance.
--And what seem'd corporal,
Melted as breath into the wind.
3. To be subdued by affliction to sink into weakness.
My soul melteth for heaviness--strengthen thou me. Psalms 119
4. To faint to be discouraged or disheartened.
As soon as we heard these things, our heart melted. Joshua 2
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): ( v. i.) To disappear by being dispersed or dissipated; as, the fog melts away.
(2): ( v.) 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.
(3): ( v. i.) To be changed from a solid to a liquid state under the influence of heat; as, butter and wax melt at moderate temperatures.
(4): ( n.) See 2d Milt.
(5): ( v. i.) To lose distinct form or outline; to blend.
(6): ( v. i.) Hence: To be softened; to become tender, mild, or gentle; also, to be weakened or subdued, as by fear.
(7): ( v. i.) To dissolve; as, sugar melts in the mouth.
(8): ( v.) 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.
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [3]
"to melt, melt down," is used in the Passive Voice in 2—Peter 3:12 , "shall melt" (lit., "shall be melted"), of the elements (Eng., "thaw" is etymologically connected).
