The headword meldo/menos is the present middle/passive participle, masculine nominative singular, of the verb me/ldw I soften by boiling. It is quoted here (and in other lexica) from Homer, Iliad 21.363 (web address 1 below), where Hephaestus' defeat of the River Xanthus is likened to a pig's fat melting. (See also under mu 471.) The glossing participle kaio/menos has been used in line 361.