molten

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  1. verb Archaic A past participle of melt.
  2. adjective Made liquid by heat; melted: molten lead.
  3. adjective Made by melting and casting in a mold.

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  • Most astronomers were convinced then that Jupiter was still hot, possibly semi-molten, and it was often thought that the four large moons of Jupiter might have a nice, pleasant climate. —  JULY, 1953 VOL
  • A man's roused passions are always terrible; but there is something ten times more awful in fury that is altogether calm--molten down as it were to a white heat. —  Agatha's Husband A Novel
  • When all the soap is molten, additions of pearl ash solution are made to give it a finer and smoother texture, render it more transparent, and increase its lathering properties. —  The Handbook of Soap Manufacture
  • I have heard her only once; but if I hadn't been a fool already, I'd have become one then, beyond recall So we sat there, on the still, blue brink of twilight, till the moon rose red as a molten helmet, and cooled to a silver bowl as she sailed higher, dripping light. —  Set in Silver
  • I say, when I think that we might all have been born, ate, drank, smoked, grown up, built, propagated, and died, as thoroughly and effectually as we now do, and all these precious objects of our sight and joy been made for us--out of the one desolate colour of an old pipe And WATER--that element of Life, that upon the plaintain-leaf looks so like a molten mass of diamond that you can hardly persuade yourself it is aught else, might as well have been created of a mere drab quaker-colour; or not even as bright as a bit of Quartz Rock! —  The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1
 

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