Dissolving view, a picture which grows dim and is gradually replaced by another on the same field; — an effect produced by magic lanterns.

Dissonance
(Dis"so*nance) n. [L. dissonantia: cf. F. dissonance.]

1. A mingling of discordant sounds; an inharmonious combination of sounds; discord.

Filled the air with barbarous dissonance.
Milton.

2. Want of agreement; incongruity. Milton.

Dissonancy
(Dis"so*nan*cy) n. Discord; dissonance.

Dissonant
(Dis"so*nant) a. [L. dissonans, -antis, p. pr. of dissonare to disagree in sound, be discordant; dis- + sonare to sound: cf. F. dissonant. See Sonant.]

1. Sounding harshly; discordant; unharmonious.

With clamor of voices dissonant and loud.
Longfellow.

2. Disagreeing; incongruous; discrepant, — with from or to. "Anything dissonant to truth." South.

What can be dissonant from reason and nature than that a man, naturally inclined to clemency, should show himself unkind and inhuman?
Hakewill.

Disspirit
(Dis*spir"it) v. t. See Dispirit.

Dissuade
(Dis*suade") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dissuaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Dissuading.] [L. dissuadere, dissuasum; dis- + suadere to advise, persuade: cf. F. dissuader. See Suasion.]

1. To advise or exhort against; to try to persuade [Obsolescent]

Mr. Burchell, on the contrary, dissuaded her with great ardor: and I stood neuter.
Goldsmith.

War, therefore, open or concealed, alike
My voice dissuades.
Milton.

Dissolvent
(Dis*solv"ent) a. [L. dissolvens, -entis, p. pr. of dissolvere.] Having power to dissolve power to dissolve a solid body; as, the dissolvent juices of the stomach. Ray.

Dissolvent
(Dis*solv"ent), n.

1. That which has the power of dissolving or melting other substances, esp. by mixture with them; a menstruum; a solvent.

Melted in the crucible dissolvents.
A. Smith.

The secret treaty of December acted as an immediate dissolvent to the truce.
Mothley.

2. (Med.) A remedy supposed capable of dissolving concretions in the body, such as calculi, tubercles, etc.

Dissolver
(Dis*solv"er) n. One who, or that which, has power to dissolve or dissipate.

Thou kind dissolver of encroaching care.
Otway.

Dissolving
(Dis*solv"ing), a. Melting; breaking up; vanishing.Dis*solv"ing*ly, adv.


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