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meltable, a.|ˈmɛltəb(ə)l|
[f. melt v.1 + -able.]
Capable of being melted, in senses of the vb.
1610W. Folkingham Art of Survey i. ii. 3 These are either Liquable or Not-Meltable. a1661Fuller Worthies (1840) III. 52 It is the most impure of metals, hardly meltable. 1852R. S. Surtees Sponge's Sp. Tour xxix. 176 Money's like snow,..a very meltable article.
Hence meltaˈbility rare, capacity of being melted.
1865Dickens Mut. Fr. iv. vii, The brittleness and meltability of wax. |