KJV Dictionary Definition: melt

melt

MELT, v.t. 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. Josh.14.

MELT, v.i. 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. Ps.119.

4. To faint; to be discouraged or disheartened.

As soon as we heard these things, our heart melted. Josh.2.

melted

MELT'ED, pp. Dissolved; made liquid; softened; discouraged.

melting

MELT'ING, ppr. Dissolving; liquefying; softening; discouraging.

1. a. Tending to soften; softening into tenderness; as melting eloquence.

MELT'ING, n. The act of softening; the act of rendering tender.

meltingly

MELT'INGLY, adv. In a manner to melt of soften.

1. Like something melting.

Definitions from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.
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