Dissolution, 1) melting, liquefaction: “against love's fire fear's frost hath d.” Lucr. 355. “a man of continual d. and thaw,” Wiv. III, 5, 118.
2) separation, division: “--s of ancient amities,” Lr. I, 2, 158.
3) death, destruction: “there is so great a fever on goodness, that the d. of it must cure it,” Meas. III, 2, 236. “reproach and d. hangeth over him,” R2 II, 1, 258.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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