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To dissolve out; -- often used with out; as, to leach out alkali from ashes.

To convert from a solid form to that of a liquid; to melt; to dissolve; and technically, to melt by the sole agency of heat.

A kind of sugar confection which dissolves easily in the mouth. Thackeray.

aniline dye obtained as an amorphous substance having a green bronze surface color, which dissolves to a shade of red; also, the color; -- so called from Magenta, in Italy, in allusion to the battle fought there about the time the dye was discovered. Called also fuchsine, roseïne, etc.

nsists of the sulphate of mauveïne, and is a dark brown or bronze amorphous powder, which dissolves to a beatiful purple color. Called also aniline purple, violine, etc.

To dissolve; as, sugar melts in the mouth.

Any substance which dissolves a solid body; a solvent. The proper menstruum to dissolve metal. Bacon. All liquors are called menstruums which are used as dissolvents, or to extract the virtues of ingredients by infusion or decoction. Quincy.

posed to solution, a liquid preparation in which the solid ingredients are not completely dissolved.

An explosive consisting of gun cotton and camphor dissolved in nitroglycerin. [Written also nitrogelatine.]

uscles from which the zooid, or hemoglobin and other substances of the corpuscles, may be dissolved out.

elow 0° C., found abundantly in both the animal and vegetable kingdoms (see Palmitin). It dissolves solid fats, especially at 30-40° C. Chemically, olein is a glyceride of oleic acid; and, as three molecules of the acid are united to one molecule of glyceryl to form the fat, it is technically known as triolein. It is a…

To convert into peptone; to digest or dissolve by means of a proteolytic ferment; as, peptonized food.

A heavy gaseous hydrocarbon, C3H8, of the paraffin series, occurring naturally dissolved in crude petroleum, and also made artificially; -- called also propyl hydride.

A moist, slightly cohering mass, consisting of soft, undissolved animal or vegetable matter. Specifically:

To construct again; to rebuild; to remodel; to form again or anew. Regiments had been dissolved and reconstructed. Macaulay.

To become less rigid or hard; to yield; to dissolve; to melt; to deliquesce. [Obs.] He stirred the coals till relente gan The wax again the fire. Chaucer. [Salt of tartar] placed in a cellar will . . . begin to relent. Boyle. When opening buds salute the welcome day, And earth, relenting, feels the genial ray. Pope.…

Serving to dissolve or relax. [R.] Johnson.

o the constituent elements; -- said of compound substances; hence, sometimes, to melt, or dissolve. O, that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew! Shak. Ye immortal souls, who once were men, And now resolved to elements again. Dryden.

That which decomposes, or dissolves. Boyle.

liament after the expulsion by Cromwell in 1648 of those who opposed his purposes. It was dissolved by Cromwell in 1653, but twice revived for brief sessions, ending finally in 1659. The rump abolished the House of Lords, the army abolished the Rump, and by this army of saints Cromwell governed. Swift. -- Rump steak, a…