OE tr. Medicina de Quadrupedibus (Vitell.) xi. 266 Wið ælcum sare gemylted leon gelynde & þærmid gesmyred, ælc sar hyt geliðigað.

a1425 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl.) IV. 187 In the throte of whom men of Parthia caste golde y-meltede [L. liquefactum aurum infundentes].

a1500 (?c1425) Speculum Sacerdotale (1936) 53 There beþ two kyndis of flesche meltyd..one which is meltyd be craft as porke or syche that is boylid or fried.

a1576 L. Nowell Vocabularium Saxonicum (1952) 83/2 Geotere. A melter. A metal melter, a maker of images of brasse or other melted metall.

1598 R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. 58 When stones wanted they threw siluer, and especially melted siluer.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iii. v. 50 Rush on his Hoast, as doth the melted Snow Vpon the Valleyes. View more context for this quotation

1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 366 The chaldron full of rich melted mettle.

1685 Bk. Pretty Conceits sig. A5^v Then you may safely put your finger into melted Lead.

1757 B. Franklin Let. 14 Apr. in Papers (1963) VII. 186 Take this Fluid from melted Lead, or from Water, the Parts cohere again, the first grows solid, the latter becomes Ice.

1797 tr. Constant de Massoul Treat. Art of Painting 44 This melted glass in Enamel, produces the same effect, that oils, gums or glues produce in the other processes of Painting.

1807 W. Windham Speech 22 July in Speeches Parl. (1812) III. 46 It was the sort of poverty of conception, reproached by some foreigner to English cookery, that we had but one sauce, and that sauce was melted butter.

1861 W. Fairbairn Iron 159 The silicium thus formed alloying the steel, gives that quietness and freedom from boiling known in the trade as ‘dead melted’.

1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It xliv. 312 It was plainly apparent that the mine had been ‘salted’ with melted half-dollars!

1908 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables xviii. 197 Plate, candle, and apples..were found at the bottom embedded in melted grease, the next day, by Marilla.

1938 Amer. Home Jan. 52/2 A rubber plate scraper will easily remove all the melted chocolate (or batter) from sides of bowl.

1980 G. Lord Fortress xiii. 104 A viscous mess of melted plastic clung to the end.

1628 P. Fletcher Brittain's Ida vi. ix. sig. C8 Bathing in liquid ioyes his melted sprite.

1852 J. D. Maclaren Let. 16 Dec. in Mem. (1861) iv. 78 There would be only more meltedness of heart.

1968 C. Olson Maximus Poems IV, V, VI 171 Earth's own meltedness had burned their underpinnings and defeated them, against Zeus's stance.

1799 Hull Advertiser 26 Oct. 3/2 Every bushel of melted wheat.

1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Melted, corn when it has sprouted in harvesting produces bread sticky, heavy and sweet in taste: when in that condition the flour is said to be melted.

1892 S. Hewett Peasant Speech Devon 64 Thease loave ov breyde a-clit. I 'spose tha flour wuz a-melted.