discandying

discandying

(dɪsˈkændɪɪŋ) or

discandering

n
the act of melting or dissolving
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'Tis the best brine a maiden can season her praise in," Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well (1604-5); "By the discandying of this pelleted storm," where the pellets are hailstones, Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra (1606); only in A Lover's Complaint and Antony and Cleopatra are pellets formed of water.
A Lover's Complaint revisited

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