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molten

[ mohl-tn ]

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verb

molten

/ ˈməʊltən /

Origin of molten¹

1250–1300; Middle English; old past participle of melt ¹

There is no better thing on a Sunday afternoon than a fruity, molten, crunchy crumble.

Underneath, however, lies the permanently molten lava of Scottish memory and its sense of English repression.

The moist rectangle of cooked meat and molten blob of cheese are then layered in a hard roll.

So, geologists have to look to other dating methods, ones that can measure into the period when rocks were still molten.

When Earth first formed, its surface was molten, so there are no rocks for us to study from that era.

They are turned back: let them be greatly confounded, that trust in a graven thing, that say to a molten thing: You are our god.

What doth the graven thing avail, because the maker thereof hath graven it, a molten, and a false image?

Through the fissures and crevices sheets of white sun-rays poured like molten silver.

The great rift in the volcano widened, and the molten lava was visible until steam rose again.

The cylinder of platinum gauze may be made by joining the ends of rolled gauze with pieces of molten glass.

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