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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.

lation of substances by themselves, or without the addition of water or of other volatile solvent; as, the dry distillation of citric acid. -- Fractional distillation. (Chem.) See under Fractional.

The decree or writing by which marriage is dissolved.

consign by a decree or sentence; to sentence; as, a criminal doomed to chains or death. Absolves the just, and dooms the guilty souls. Dryden.

A dragon. [Obs.] Beowulf resolves to kill the drake. J. A. Harrison (Beowulf).

One who accounts for material phenomena by a theory of dynamics. Those who would resolve matter into centers of force may be said to constitute the school of dynamists. Ward (Dyn. Sociol. ).

rmed in the decomposition of cholic acid of bile; -- so called because it is difficult to solve.

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

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

; doubtful. "How equivocal a test." Burke. Equivocal chord (Mus.), a chord which can be resolved into several distinct keys; one whose intervals, being all minor thirds, do not clearly indicate its fundamental tone or root; the chord of the diminished triad, and the diminished seventh.

igures (Min.), markings produced on the face of a crystal by the action of an appropriate solvent. They have usually a definite form, and are important as revealing the molecular structure. -- Etching needle, a sharp-pointed steel instrument with which lines are drawn in the ground or varnish in etching. -- Etching s…

ion of alcohol with sulphuric acid, and hence called also sulphuric ether. It is powerful solvent of fats, resins, and pyroxylin, but finds its chief use as an anæsthetic. Called also ethyl oxide.ethyl ether.

One who resolves religion into prayer. [Obs.] Gauden.