14. (n.)melt the spleen, esp. of a cow or pig when used for food.
Etymology: (1575–85; dial. (mainly Scots, N England) var. of milt)
Definition of 'Melt'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (verb)thaw, melt, thawing, melting the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid "the power failure caused a refrigerator melt that was a disaster"; "the thawing of a frozen turkey takes several hours"
2. (verb)melt, run, melt down reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating "melt butter"; "melt down gold"; "The wax melted in the sun"
3. (verb)dissolve, thaw, unfreeze, unthaw, dethaw, melt become or cause to become soft or liquid "The sun melted the ice"; "the ice thawed"; "the ice cream melted"; "The heat melted the wax"; "The giant iceberg dissolved over the years during the global warming phase"; "dethaw the meat"
4. (verb)mellow, melt, mellow out become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial "With age, he mellowed"
5. (verb)melt, meld lose its distinct outline or shape; blend gradually "Hundreds of actors were melting into the scene"
6. (verb)fade, melt become less clearly visible or distinguishable; disappear gradually or seemingly "The scene begins to fade"; "The tree trunks are melting into the forest at dusk"
7. (verb)melt, disappear, evaporate become less intense and fade away gradually "her resistance melted under his charm"; "her hopes evaporated after years of waiting for her fiance"
2. Melt to reduce from a solid to a liquid state, as by heat; to liquefy; as, to melt wax, tallow, or lead; to melt ice or snow
3. Melt hence: To soften, as by a warming or kindly influence; to relax; to render gentle or susceptible to mild influences; sometimes, in a bad sense, to take away the firmness of; to weaken
Sense: to (cause to) become soft or liquid, or to lose shape, usually by heating / being heated The ice has melted; My heart melted when I saw how sorry he was.
Definitions of Melt 
Afrikaans: smelt
Arabic: يُذيب، يَذوب
Bulgarian: разтапям (се)
Brazilian: derreter
Czech: roztát
German: schmelzen
Danish: smelte
Greek: λιώνω
Spanish: derretir
Estonian: sula(ta)ma
Farsi: ذوب کردن
Finnish: sulaa
French: (faire) fondre
Hebrew: לְהָמִיס
Hindi: पिघलाना
Croatian: topiti, rastopiti
Hungarian: megolvad, elolvad
Indonesian: mencair
Icelandic: bræða; bráðna
Italian: sciogliere, sciogliersi
Japanese: 溶ける
Korean: (고체가 열, 압력으로) 녹다
Lithuanian: (iš)tirp(dy)ti, atsileist
Latvian: kust; atmaigt
Malay: mencair
Dutch: smelten
Norwegian: smelte, tine
Polish: topnieć
Persian: ذوب کردن
Pashto: ذوب كول
Portuguese: derreter
Romanian: a (se) topi
Russian: (рас)таять; плавить(ся)
Slovak: roztopiť
Slovenian: topiti se
Serbian: topiti se
Swedish: smälta
Thai: ละลาย
Turkish: eri(t)mek
Taiwanese: 熔化，使熔化
Ukrainian: топитися; м'якшати
Urdu: پگھلنا، گھلنا
Vietnamese: tan chảy
Chinese: 熔化
