Etymology: < imelt, past participle of meltv.1 Compare earlier meltedadj.1
Obsolete. rare.
= meltedadj.1 1.
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a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 13 In þis temple was so moche golde þat, whanne þe Romanys sette hit a fuyre, þerfrom ran a streem of golde of nayles i-melt [?a1475 anon. tr. ymeltede; L. liquefactis] in to þe brook.
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