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The quality of being resolvable; resolvability.

, 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.

Having a fixed purpose; determined; resolute; -- usually placed after its noun; as, a man resolved to be rich. That makes him a resolved enemy. Jer. Taylor. I am resolved she shall not settle here. Fielding.

So as to resolve or clear up difficulties; clearly. [Obs.] Of that, and all the progress, more or less, Resolvedly more leisure shall express. Shak.

Fixedness of purpose; firmness; resolution. Dr. H. More.

Having power to resolve; causing solution; solvent.

One who resolves, or formal a firm purpose.

The act of resounding; the quality or state of being resonant.

Resonance.

Returning, or capable of returning, sound; fitted to resound; resounding; echoing back. Through every hour of the golden morning, the streets were resonant with female parties of young and old. De Quincey.

In a reasonant manner.

Anything which resounds; specifically, a vessel in the form of a cylinder open at one end, or a hollow ball of brass with two apertures, so contrived as to greatly intensify a musical tone by its resonance. It is used for the study and analysis of complex sounds.

To swallow up. Now lifted by the tide, and now resorbed. Young.

Swallowing up. Wodhull.

A colorless crystalline substance of the phenol series, obtained by melting certain resins, as galbanum, asafetida, etc., with caustic potash. It is also produced artificially and used in making certain dyestuffs, as phthaleïn, fluoresceïn, and eosin.

Of, or pertaining to, or producing, resorcin; as, resorcylic acid.

The act of resorbing; also, the act of absorbing again; reabsorption.

Active power or movement; spring. [A Gallicism] [Obs.] Some . . . know the resorts and falls of business that can not sink into the main of it. Bacon.

One who resorts; a frequenter.

To resound. [Obs.] Chaucer.