Emily Dickinson Lexicon

DIS-SOLVE', v.i. [dizzolv'.]

1. To be melted; to be converted from a solid to a fluid state; as, sugar dissolves in water.
2. To sink sway; to lose strength and firmness. – Shak.
3. To melt away in pleasure; to become soft or languid.
4. To fall asunder; to crumble; to be broken. A government may dissolve by its own weight or extent.
5. To waste away; to perish; to be decomposed. Flesh dissolves by putrefaction.
6. To come to an end by a separation of parts.