To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away.
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To separate into competent parts; to disorganize; to break up; hence, to bring to an end by separating the parts, sundering a relation, etc.; to terminate; to destroy; to deprive of force; as, to dissolve a partnership; to dissolve Parliament.
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To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away.
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To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away.
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To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.
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To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…
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To scatter in fight; to put to rout; to defeat.
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To disarrange; to interfere with; to disturb; to disorder; to unsettle; to break up.
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To break up the harmonious progress of; to throw into disorder or confusion; as, the emperor disconcerted the plans of his enemy.
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To separate into integrant parts; to reduce to fragments or to powder; to break up, or cause to fall to pieces, as a rock, by blows of a hammer, fros…
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The extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being side); hence, extremity, in general; th…
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The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream; constant succession; change.
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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.
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To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms o…
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To break at once; to break short, as substances that are brittle.
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To set a term or limit to; to form the extreme point or side of; to bound; to limit; as, to terminate a surface by a line.
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Passage from one place or state to another; charge; as, the transition of the weather from hot to cold.
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To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wh…
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To make incapable of harmony, or of harmonious action; to put out of tune.
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To set up; to put upright.
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of Cut
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To dissolve gradually and become liquid by attracting and absorbing moisture from the air, as certain salts, acids, and alkalies.
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A variant of Eddish.
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See 2d Milt.
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of Run
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The act of dissolving, sundering, or separating into component parts; separation.
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The act of dissolving, sundering, or separating into component parts; separation.
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Having power to dissolve power to dissolve a solid body; as, the dissolvent juices of the stomach.
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Having power to dissolve power to dissolve a solid body; as, the dissolvent juices of the stomach.
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of Dissolve
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of Dissolve
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To loose the bands of; to set free; to disunite; to scatter; to disperse; to break up the organization of; especially, to dismiss from military servi…
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To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away.
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See 2d Milt.
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To separate the component parts of; to reduce to the constituent elements; -- said of compound substances; hence, sometimes, to melt, or dissolve.
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To melt, dissolve, or become fluid; to soften; -- said of that which is frozen; as, the ice thaws.
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To thaw.
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