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The quality of being dissoluble; dissolubility. Boyle.

sly abandoned to sensual pleasures; profligate; wanton; lewd; debauched. "A wild and dissolute soldier." Motley.

In a dissolute manner.

State or quality of being dissolute; looseness of morals and manners; addictedness to sinful pleasures; debauchery; dissipation. Chivalry had the vices of dissoluteness. Bancroft.

The act of dissolving, sundering, or separating into component parts; separation. Dissolutions of ancient amities. Shak.

Disesteem; depreciation; disrepute. Bacon.

To undervalue; to depreciate. Shak.

A blind tube branching out of a longer one.

An aqueous solution of carbolic acid, borax, sodium bicarbonate, and glycerin, used as a spray in diseases of the nose and throat.

A genus of freeswimming oceanic tunicates, allied to Salpa, and having alternate generations.

Evil intent, embracing both malice and fraud. See Culpa. Wharton.

(Paleon.) The reflexed margin of the trilobite carapace.

A fish; the dragonet.

Flowing sweetly. [R.]

A variety of the zinc spinel or gahnite.

See Luxe.

That which flows or issues from any body or substance; issue; efflux. Bright effluence of bright essence increate! Milton. And, as if the gloom of the earth and sky had been but the effluence of these two mortal hearts, it vanished with their sorrow. Hawthorne.

Effluence.

Flowing out; as, effluent beams. Parnell.

Capable of being given off as an effluvium. "Effluviable matter." Boyle.