'Molten' definitions:

Definition of 'molten'

adjective

Reduced to liquid form by heating; "a mass of molten rock" [syn: molten, liquefied, liquified]

From: GCIDE

Melt \Melt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Melted (obs.) p. p. Molten; p. pr. & vb. n. Melting.] [AS. meltan; akin to Gr. me`ldein, E. malt, and prob. to E. smelt, v. [root]108. Cf. Smelt, v., Malt, Milt the spleen.]
1. 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. [1913 Webster]
2. 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. [1913 Webster]
Thou would'st have . . . melted down thy youth. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
For pity melts the mind to love. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
Syn: To liquefy; fuse; thaw; mollify; soften. [1913 Webster]

From: GCIDE

Molten \Mol"ten\, a. [See Melt.]
1. Melted; being in a state of fusion, esp. when the liquid state is produced by a high degree of heat; as, molten iron. [1913 Webster]
2. Made by melting and casting the substance or metal of which the thing is formed; as, a molten image. [1913 Webster]