The gastric juice has no action on starchy foods, neither does it act on fats, except to dissolve the albuminous walls of the fat cells.

Dissolve a few drops of oil or fat in a teaspoonful of ether.

Love is sparingly soluble in the words of men; therefore they speak much of it; but one syllable of woman's speech can dissolve more of it than a man's heart can hold.

Sooner or later, indeed, these tendencies must dissolve and disappear; but they may persist for a longer period than might seem probable at first.

I could Dissolve with curseing of my Lathargie.

V. not exist &c 1; have no existence &c 1; be null and void; cease to exist &c 1; pass away, perish; be extinct, become extinct &c adj.; die out; disappear &c 449; melt away, dissolve, leave not a rack behind; go, be no more; die &c 360. annihilate, render null, nullify; abrogate &c 756; destroy &c 162; take away; remove &c (displace) 185; obliterate, extirpate.

V. vanish, evaporate, fade, dissolve, melt away; disappear &c 449.

V. decompose, decompound; analyze, disembody, dissolve; resolve into its elements, separate into its elements; electrolyze

Then, after the Lady of the Lake had so advised Sir Launcelot, she kissed him upon the face, and therewith gave him a ring curiously wrought and set with a wonderful purple stone, which ring had such power that it would dissolve every enchantment.

Take a grain or two of opium, and dissolve it with three or four drops of rosewater in a spoon, and after mingle with it as much Unguentum populeum as a nut, use it as before: or else take half a dram of opium, Unguentum populeum, oil of nenuphar, rosewater, rose-vinegar, of each half an ounce, with as much virgin wax as a nut, anoint your temples with some of it, ad horam somni.

The right of a firm to dissolve its partnership with any one partner, breach of contract having been proved, and publicly to announce the same, is common to all men as social beings.

The governor of the Mississippi Territory having thought it expedient to dissolve the general assembly of that Territory, according to the authority vested in him by the ordinance of July 13, 1787, and having declared it dissolved accordingly, some doubt was suggested whether that declaration effected the dissolution of the legislative council.

The sal soda will dissolve more readily in hot water.

Dissolve the ammonium persulphate in the water and add the ammonia.

Powder the persulphate and carbonate together, dissolve in the water and add the ammonia; mix thoroughly and allow to stand for one hour before using.

[Footnote 1: Eopuco I take to be from the verb puch or puk, to melt, to dissolve, to shell corn from the cob, to spoil; hence puk, spoiled, rotten, podrida, and possibly ppuch, to flog, to beat.

A second reason why the South will not dissolve the Union is, that she would be exposed to the visitation of real incendiaries, exciting her slaves to revolt.

Dissolve the Union, and the candidates for "GLORY" would find in the plains of Carolina and Louisiana as inviting a theatre for their enterprise, as their prototypes, the Houstons, the Van Rennsselaers, and the Sutherlands did, in the prairies of Texas or the forests of Canada.

A third reason why the South will not dissolve is, that the slaves would leave their masters and take refuge in the free states.

A fourth reason why the South will not dissolve is, that a large number of her most steady and effective population would emigrate to the free states.

A fifth reason why the South will not dissolve, is her weakness.

"We'll dissolve the Union!"

"We'll dissolve the Union!" unless the Indians be driven out of the South!!

"We'll dissolve the Union!" unless the freedom of speech and the press be put down in the North!!With the promptness of commission-merchants, the alternative is adopted.

The North, frightened from her propriety, declares that slavery ought not to be abolished there NOW."We'll dissolve the Union!"