in Chemistry, is applied to animal, vegetable, and mineral substances, tending towards fusion. See Fusion.

in Physic, a term applied to the blood, when it loses its elastic or balsamic texture; and to the solid parts, when they waste away by means of the animal fluids flowing off through the several glands, and particularly those of the skin, faster than they ought; which occasions fluxes of many kinds, but mostly profuse, greasy, and clammy sweats.