Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In a body beginning to melt, that degree of softness which alters its shape; the first or lowest degree of fusion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun That degree of softness in a body beginning to melt which alters its shape; the first or lowest degree of fusibility.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun That degree of
softness in a body beginning tomelt which alters its shape; the first or lowest degree offusibility .
Etymologies
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Latin e out + mollescere, inchoate from mollere to be soft, mollis soft.
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