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Cerecloth :: Cerecloth (n.) A cloth smeared with melted wax, or with some gummy or glutinous matter..

Molten :: Molten (a.) Made by melting and casting the substance or metal of which the thing is formed; as, a molten image..

Shadrach :: Shadrach (n.) A mass of iron on which the operation of smelting has failed of its intended effect; -- so called from Shadrach, one of the three Hebrews who came forth unharmed from the fiery furnace of Nebuchadnezzar. (See Dan. iii. 26, 27.).

Try :: Try (v. t.) To purify or refine, as metals; to melt out, and procure in a pure state, as oil, tallow, lard, etc..

Dissolvent :: Dissolvent (n.) That which has the power of dissolving or melting other substances, esp. by mixture with them; a menstruum; a solvent..

Colliquefaction :: Colliquefaction (n.) A melting together; the reduction of different bodies into one mass by fusion.

Ceromancy :: Ceromancy (n.) Divination by dropping melted wax in water.

Bosh :: Bosh (n.) In forging and smelting, a trough in which tools and ingots are cooled..

Ferret :: Ferret (n.) The iron used for trying the melted glass to see if is fit to work, and for shaping the rings at the mouths of bottles..

Endure :: Endure (v. t.) To remain firm under; to sustain; to undergo; to support without breaking or yielding; as, metals endure a certain degree of heat without melting; to endure wind and weather..

Resorcin :: Resorcin (n.) A colorless crystalline substance of the phenol series, obtained by melting certain resins, as galbanum, asafetida, etc., with caustic potash. It is also produced artificially and used in making certain dyestuffs, as phthalein, fluorescein, and eosin..

Calk :: Calk (v. t.) To drive tarred oakum into the seams between the planks of (a ship, boat, etc.), to prevent leaking. The calking is completed by smearing the seams with melted pitch..

Matte :: Matte (n.) A partly reduced copper sulphide, obtained by alternately roasting and melting copper ore in separating the metal from associated iron ores, and called coarse metal, fine metal, etc., according to the grade of fineness. On the exterior it is dark brown or black, but on a fresh surface is yellow or bronzy in color..

Wood''s Metal :: Wood's metal () A fusible alloy consisting of one or two parts of cadmium, two parts of tin, four of lead, with seven or eight part of bismuth. It melts at from 66? to 71? C. See Fusible metal, under Fusible..

Deliquescence :: Deliquescence (n.) The act of deliquescing or liquefying; process by which anything deliquesces; tendency to melt.

Cupola :: Cupola (n.) A furnace for melting iron or other metals in large quantity, -- used chiefly in foundries and steel works..

Blowtube :: Blowtube (n.) A long wrought iron tube, on the end of which the workman gathers a quantity of metal (melted glass), and through which he blows to expand or shape it; -- called also blowing tube, and blowpipe..

Kish :: Kish (n.) A workman's name for the graphite which forms incidentally in iron smelting.

Melter :: Melter (n.) One who, or that which, melts..

Cullet :: Cullet (v. t.) Broken glass for remelting.

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