“melteth” is a form of
melt
/mɛlt/ verb, noun
Forms melts melting melted molt molten meltest meltedst melteth
- verb (ergative) To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat. “I melted butter to make a cake.”
- verb (intransitive, figuratively) To dissolve, disperse, vanish. “His troubles melted away.”
- verb (ambitransitive, figurative) 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.
- verb (intransitive) To be discouraged.
- verb (intransitive, figurative) To be emotionally softened or touched. “She melted when she saw the romantic message in the Valentine's Day card.”
- verb (intransitive, colloquial) To be very hot and sweat profusely. “I need shade! I'm melting!”
- noun Molten material, the product of melting.
- noun The transition of matter from a solid state to a liquid state.
- noun The springtime snow runoff in mountain regions.
- noun A melt sandwich.
- noun (geology) Rock showing evidence of having been remelted after it originally solidified. “Numerous samples of breccia and impact melts were recovered by drilling into the floor of the crater.”
- noun A wax-based substance for use in an oil burner as an alternative to mixing oils and water.
- noun (UK, slang, derogatory) A soft, soppy, or overly emotional person.
- noun (UK, politics, slang, derogatory) A centre-left or liberal person, when in opposition to a leftist; (especially) a critic of Jeremy Corbyn within the Labour Party.
Synonyms
to found to thaw tart thaw thawing melting run melt down dissolve unfreeze unthaw dethaw mellow mellow out meld fade disappear evaporate
Etymology
From Middle English melten, from a merger of Old English meltan (intransitive) and mieltan (transitive), both meaning “to melt, digest,” from Proto-West Germanic *meltan and *maltijan, from Proto-Germanic *meltaną and *maltijaną, both from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meld- (“melt”). Cognate with Icelandic melta (“to digest”).
Webster’s 1913
- noun See 2d Milt.
- verb To reduce from a solid to a liquid state, as by heat; to liquefy; as, to mell wax, tallow, or lead; to melt ice or snow.
- verb 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.
- verb To be changed from a solid to a liquid state under the influence of heat; as, butter and wax melt at moderate temperatures.
Etymology [AS. meltan; akin to Gr. malt, and prob. to E. smelt, v. Smelt, v., Malt, Milt the spleen.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “melt”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details