Emily Dickinson Lexicon

MELT, v.i.

1. To become liquid; to dissolve; to be changed from a fixed or solid to a flowing state. And whiter snow in minutes melts away. Dryden.
2. To be softened to love, pity, tenderness or sympathy; become tender, mild, or gentle. Melting with tenderness and mild compassion. Shak.
3. To be dissolved; to lose substance. And what seem'd corporal, / Melted as breath into the wind. Shak.
4. To be subdued by affliction; to sink into weakness. My soul melteth for heaviness-strengthen thou me. Ps. cxix.
5. To faint; to be discouraged or disheartened. As soon as we heard these things, our heart melted. Josh. ii.