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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
melt .
Etymologies
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Examples
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"melteth" (that is, casts out of metal) a graven image (that is, one of carved wood); so Jer 10: 14, "molten image." spreadeth it over -- (See on [780] Isa 30: 22). chains -- an ornament lavishly worn by rich Orientals (Isa 3: 18, 19), and so transferred to their idols.
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And trust no agent: for beauty is a witch Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.
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Know that love is a tyrant and the hiding it melteth iron and entaileth sickness and unease; nor for whoso confesseth it is there aught of reproach.
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Then will we sit through the night with him in talk and tell him tales and jests and rare stories till his heart melteth with sitting up when we will spread him a bed, that he may lie down to sleep.
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This is my letter to him whose love melteth my body and rendeth my skin and bones!
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But as to the raw ambergris which is not swallowed, it floweth over the channel and congealeth on the banks and when the sun shineth on it, it melteth and scenteth the whole valley with a musk-like fragrance: then, when the sun ceaseth from it, it congealeth again.
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As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away, like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
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She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.
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My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word.
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The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.
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