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To renounce or dissolve all bonds of affiance, faith, or obligation with; to reject, refuse, or renounce. [Obs.] I defy the surety and the bond. Chaucer. For thee I have defied my constant mistress. Beau. & Fl.

To melt or be dissolved; to deliquesce. [Obs.] Boyle.

To dissolve gradually and become liquid by attracting and absorbing moisture from the air, as certain salts, acids, and alkalies. In very moist air crystals of strontites deliquesce. Black.

To make thinner or more liquid by admixture with something; to thin and dissolve by mixing. Mix their watery store. With the chyle's current, and dilute it more. Blackmore.

To become separated, broken up, dissolved, or scattered; especially, to quit military service by breaking up organization.

To melt; to dissolve; to thaw. [Obs.]

To dissolve the union or connection of; to disunite; to sever; to separate; to disperse. The commonwealth itself would . . . be disconnected into the dust and powder of individuality. Burke. This restriction disconnects bank paper and the precious metals. Walsh.

To dissolve covenant with.

Having a tendency to dissolve social connections; unsuitable to society; unsociable.

The quality of being dissoluble; capacity of being dissoluble; capacity of being dissolved by heat or moisture, and converted into a fluid.

Capable of being dissolved; having its parts separable by heat or moisture; convertible into a fluid. Woodward.

The state of being dissolved, or of undergoing liquefaction. A man of continual dissolution and thaw. Shak.

Capacity of being dissolved; solubility. Richardson.

Capable of being dissolved, or separated into component parts; capable of being liquefied; soluble. -- Dis*solv"a*ble*ness, n. Though everything which is compacted be in its own nature dissolvable. Cudworth. Such things as are not dissolvable by the moisture of the tongue. Sir I. Newton.

Having the power to dissolve anything; solvent. [Obs.] Frampton.

To dissolve or melt. [R.] Swords by the lightning's subtle force distilled. Addison.

The decree or writing by which marriage is dissolved.

Serving to dissolve or attenuate viscid matter, and so to remove obstructions; deobstruent. -- n.

e chemical basis of elastic tissue. It is very insoluble in most fluids, but is gradually dissolved when digested with either pepsin or trypsin.

The act or process of filtering; the mechanical separation of a liquid from the undissolved particles floating in it.