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1549.  Compl. Scot., vi. 59. The snau … remanis langar onmeltit, be rason that it fallis aye in cald vedthir.

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1611.  Speed, Theat. Gt. Brit., 111/1. The snow … lasteth long vnmelted vnder those … high hils.

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1657.  G. Thornley, Daphnis & Chloe, 114. The snow lay unmelted.

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1713.  Salmon, Bate’s Dispens. (ed. 4), 438/2. Unmelted Antimony in fine Pouder.

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1796.  Kirwan, Elem. Min. (ed. 2), I. 448. It is found … on gneiss unaltered, on sandstone unmelted.

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1833–4.  J. Phillips, Geol., in Encycl. Metrop. (1845), VI. 738/1. The houses … which have been enveloped in liquid lava, remained unmelted by it.

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1892.  M. Dods, Gosp. John, II. xiv. 223. A lens of ice will … itself unmelted … fire the tinder to which it transmits its rays.

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