Dictionary entry

Dissolve (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Dis‐solve″, v. i. 1. To waste away; to be dissipated; to be decomposed or broken up.

2. To become fluid; to be melted; to be liquefied.

A figure

Trenched in ice, which with an hour's heat

Dissolves to water, and doth lose his form. Shak.

3. To fade away; to fall to nothing; to lose power.

The charm dissolves apace. Shak.