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Society

SOCI'ETY, noun [Latin societas, from socius, a companion. See Sociable.]

1. The union of a number of rational beings; or a number of persons united, either for a temporary or permanent purpose. Thus the inhabitants of a state or of a city constitute a society having common interests; and hence it is called a community. In a more enlarged sense, the whole race or family of man is a society and called human society The true and natural foundation of society are the wants and fears of individuals.

2. Any number of persons associated for a particular purpose, whether incorporated by law, or only united by articles of agreement; a fraternity. Thus we have bible societies for various objects; societies for mechanics, and leaned societies; societies for encouraging arts, etc.

3. Company; a temporary association of persons for profit or pleasure. In this sense, company is more generally used.

4. Company; fellowship. We frequent the society of those we love and esteem.

5. Partnership; fellowship; union on equal terms. Among unequals what society can sort? Heav'n's greatness no society can bear.

6. Persons living in the same neighborhood, who frequently meet in company and have fellowship. Literary society renders a place interesting and agreeable.

7. In Connecticut, a number of families united and incorporated for the purpose of supporting public worship, is called an ecclesiastical society This is a parish, except that it has not territorial limits. In Massachusetts, such as incorporated society is usually called a parish, though consisting of persons only, without regard to territory.

Socinian

SOCIN'IAN, adjective [from Socinus, a native of Sienna, in Tuscany, the founder of the sect of Socinians in the 16th century.] Pertaning to Socinus, or his religious creed.

SOCIN'IAN, noun One of the followers of socinian

Socinianism

SOCINIANISM, noun The tenets or doctrines of Socinus, who held Christ to be a mere man inspired, denied his divinity and atonement, and the doctrine of original depravity.

Sock

SOCK, noun [Latin soccus; ]

1. The shoe of the ancient actors of comedy. Hence the word is used for comedy, and opposed to buskin or tragedy. Great Fletcher never teads in buskin here, nor greater Jonson dares in socks appear.

2. A garment for the foot, like the foot of a stocking.

3. A plowshare.

Socket

SOCK'ET, noun

1. The little hollow tube or place in which a candle is fixed in the candlestick. And in the sockets oily bubbles dance.

2. Any hollow thing or place which receives and holds something else; as the sockets of the teeth or of the eyes. his eyeballs in their hollow sockets sink. Gomphosis is the connection of a tooth to its socket

Socket-Chisel

SOCK'ET-CHISEL, noun A chisel made with a socket; a stronger sort of chisel.

Sockless

SOCK'LESS, adjective Destitute of socks or shoes.

Socle

SO'CLE, noun [See Sock.] In architecture, a flat squre member under the basis of pedestals of vases and statues, serving as a foot or stand.

Socman

SOC'MAN, noun [See Socage.] One who holds lands or tenements by socage.

Socmanry

SOC'MANRY, noun Tenure by socage. [Not in use.]

Socome

SOC'OME, noun A custom of tenants to grind corn at the lord's mill. [Not used.]

Socotorine

SOC'OTORINE, SOC'OTRINE, adjective socotorine or socotrine aloes, a fine kind of aloes from Socotra, an isle in the Indian oceans.

Socotrine

SOC'OTORINE, SOC'OTRINE, adjective Socotorine or SOCOTRINE aloes, a fine kind of aloes from Socotra, an isle in the Indian oceans.

Socratic

SOCRAT'IC, SOCRAT'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to Socrates, the Grecian sage, or his language or manner of teaching and philosophizing. The socratic metod of resoning and instruction was by inter rugatories.

Socratical

SOCRAT'IC, SOCRAT'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to Socrates, the Grecian sage, or his language or manner of teaching and philosophizing. The Socratic metod of resoning and instruction was by inter rugatories.

Socratically

SOCRAT'ICALLY, adverb In the Socratic method.

Socratism

SOC'RATISM, noun The doctrines of philosophy of Socrates.

Socratist

SOC'RATIST, noun A disciple of Socrates.

Sod

SOD,

n. Turf; sward; that stratum of earth on the surface which is filled with the roots of grass, or any portion of that surface. It differs from clod, which may be compact mass of earth without roots; but sod is formed by earth held together by roots.

SOD, adjective Made or consisting of sod

SOD, verb transitive To cover with sod; to turf.

SOD, preterit tense of seethe; also the passive participle. [See Sodden.]

Soda

SO'DA, noun Mineral fixed alkali; natron; so called because it forms the basis of marine salt. It is found native in Egypt; but it is generally obtained form the salsola kali. soda is an oxyd, or the protoxyd of sodiem, a metal.

Soda-Water

SO'DA-WATER, noun A very weak solution of soda in water supersaturated with carbonic acid, and constituting a favorite beverage.

Sodalite

SO'DALITE, noun A mineral; so called from the large portion of mineral alkali which enters into its composition. It is of a bluish green color, and found crystalized or in masses.

Sodden

SOD'DEN, participle passive of seethe. Boiled; seethed.

Soddy

SOD'DY, adjective [from sod.] Turfy; consisting of sod; covered with sod.

Soder

SOD'ER, verb transitive [It has been taken for granted that this is a contracted word, from Latin solido, and hence written solder. The fact may be doubted; but if true, the settled pronunciation seems to render it expedient to let the contracted orthography remain undisturbed.] To unite and make solid, as metallic substances; to join separate things or parts of the same thing by a metallic substance in a state of fustion, which hardens in cooling, and renders the joint solid.

SOD'ER, noun Metallic cement; a metal or metallic composition used in uniting other metallic substances.

Sodium

SO'DIUM, noun The metallic base of soda. It is soft, sectile, white and opake, and very malleable. It is lighter than water.

Sodomite

SOD'OMITE, noun

1. An inhabitant of Sodom.

2. One guilty of sodomy.

Sodomy

SOD'OMY, noun A crime against nature.

Soe

SOE, noun A large wooden vessel for holding water; a cowl.

Soever

SOEVER, so and ever, found in compounds, as in whosoever, whatsoever, wheresoever, See these words. It is sometimes used separate from the pronoun; as, in what things soever you undertake, use diligence and fidelity.

Sofa

SO'FA, noun [probably an oriental word.] An elegant long seat, usually with a stuffed bottom. Sofas are variously made. In the United States, the frame of stuffed cloth, with a covering of silk, chintz. calico or hair-cloth. The sofa of the orientals is a kind of alcove raised half a foot above the floor, where visitors of distinction are received. It is also a seat by the side of the room covered with a carpet.

Soffit

SOF'FIT, noun

1. In architecture, any timber ceiling formed of cross beams, the compartments of which are enriched with sculpture, painting or gilding.

2. The under side of face of an architrave, enriched with compartment of roses.

Soft

SOFT, adjective

1. Easily yielding to pressure ; the contrary of hard; as a soft bed; a soft peach; soft earth.

2. Not hard; easily separated by an edged instrument; as soft wood. The chestnut is a soft wood, but more durable than hickory, with is a very hard wood. So we say, a soft stone, when it breaks or is hewed with ease.

3. Easily worked; malleable; as soft iron.

4. Not rough, rugged or harsh; smooth to the touch; delicate; as soft silk; soft raiment a soft skin.

5. Delicate; feminine; as the softer sex.

6. Easily yielding to persuasion or motives flexible; susceptible of influence or passion. In both these senses, soft is appiled to females, and sometimes males; as a divine of a soft and servile temper. One king is too soft and easy.

7. Tender; timorous. However soft within themselves they are, to you they will be valiant be despair.

8. Mild; gentle; kind; not severe or unfeeling; as a person of a soft nature.

9. Civil; complaisant; courteous; as a person of soft manners. He has a soft way of asking favors.

10. Placid; still; easy. On her soft axie while whe paces even, she bears thee soft with the smooth air along.

11. Effeminate; viciouly nice. An idle soft course of life is the source of crminal pleasures.

12. Delicate; elegantly tender. Her form more soft and feminine.

13. Weak; impressible. The deceive soon found this soft place of Adam's [Not elegant.]

14. Gentle; smooth or melodious to the ear. not loud, rough or harsh; as a soft voice or note; a soft sound; soft accents; soft whispers.

15. Smooth; flowing; not rough or vehement. The solemn nightingale tun'd her soft lays. soft were my numbers, who could take offense?

16. Easy; quiet; undisturbed; as soft slumbers.

17. Mild to the eye; not strong or glaring; as soft colors; the soft coloring of a picture. The sun shining on the upper part of the clounds, made the softes light imaginable.

18. Mild; warm; pleasant to the feelings; as soft air.

19. Not tinged with an acid; not hard; not astringent; as, soft water is the best for washing.

20. Mild; gentle; not rough, rude or irritating. A soft answer turneth away wrath. Proverbs 15:1.

SOFT, adverb Softly; gently; quietly.

SOFT, exclamation for be soft hold; stoop; not so fast. But, soft my muse, the world is wide.

Soften

SOFTEN, verb transitive sof'n.

1. To make soft or more soft; to make less hard. their arrow's point they soften in the flame.

2. To mollify; to make less fierce or intractable; to make more susceptible of humane or fine feelings; as, to soften a hard heart; to soften savage natures. The heart is softened by pity. Diffidence concilliates the proud, and softens the severe.

3. To make less harsh or severe; as, to soften an expression.

4. To palliate; to represent as less enormous; as, to soften a fault.

5. To make easy; to compose; to mitigate; to alleviate. Music can soften the pain to ease.

6. To make calm and placid. Bid her be all that cheers or softens life.

7. To make less harsh, less rude, less offensive or violent. But sweetly temper'd awe, and soften'd all be spoke.

8. To make less glaring; as, to soften the coloring of a picture.

9. To make tender; to make effeminate; to enervate; as troops softened by luxury.

10. To make less harsh or grating; as, to soften the voice.

SOFTEN, verb intransitive sof'n. To become less hard; to become more pliable and yielding to pressure; as, irion or wax softens in heat; fruits soften as they ripen.

2. To become less rude, harsh or cruel; as, savage natures soften by civilization.

3. To become less obstinate or obdurate; to become more susceptible of humane feelings and tenderness; to relent. The heart softens at the sight of woe.

4. To become more mild; as, the air softens.

5. To become less harsh, severe or rigorous.

Softened

SOFT'ENED, participle passive Made less hard or less harsh; made less obdurate or cruel, or less glaring.

Softening

SOFT'ENING, participle present tense Making more soft; making less rough or cruel, etc.

SOFT'ENING, noun The act of making less hard, less cruel or obdurate, less violent, less glaring. etc.

Softhearted

SOFT'HEARTED, adjective Having tenderness of heart; susceptible of pity or other kindly affection; gentle; meek.

Softling

SOFT'LING, noun An effeminate person; one vitiously nice. [Little used.]

Softly

SOFT'LY, adverb

1. Without hardness.

2. Not with force or violence; gently; as, be softly pressed my hand.

3. Not loudly; without noise; as, speak softly; walk softly In this dark silence softly leave the town.

4. Gently; placidly. She softly lays him on a flowery bed.

5. Mildly; tenderly. The king must die; though pity softly pleads within my soul.

Softner

SOFT'NER, noun

1. He or that which softens.

2. One that palliates.

Softness

SOFT'NESS, noun

1. The quality of bodies which renders them capable of yielding to pressure, or of easily receiving impressions from other bodies; opposed to hardness.

2. Susceptibility of feeling or passion; as the softness of the heart or of our natures.

3. Mildness; kindness; as softness of words or expressions.

4. Mildness; civility; gentleness; as softness of manners.

5. Effeminacy; vicious delicacy. He was not delighted with the softness of the court.]

6. Timorousness; pusillanimity; excessive susceptibility of fear or alarm. This virtue could not proceed out of fear or softness

7. Smoothness to the ear; as the softness of sounds, which is distinct from exility or fineness.

8. Facility; gentleness; candor; easiness to be affected; as softness of spirit.

9. Gentleness, as contrary to vehemence. With strength and softness energy and ease.

10. Mildness of temper; meekness. For contemplation he and valor form'd for softness she, and sweet attractive grace.

11. Weakness; simplicity.

12. Mild temperature; as the softness of a climate.

Soggy

SOG'GY, adjective [allied probably to soak.]

1. Wet; filled with water; soft with moisture; as soggy land. Timber that has imbibed water is said to be soggy

2. Steaming with damp.

Soho

SOHO, exclamation A word used in calling from a distant place; a sportman's halloo.

Soil

SOIL, verb transitive

1. To make dirty on the surface; to foul; to dirt; to stain; to defile; to tarnish; to sull; as, to soil a garment with dust. Out wonted ornaments now soil'd and stain'd.

2. To cover or tinge with any thing extraneous; as, to soil the earth with blood.

3. To dung; to manure.

TO soil A HORSE, is to purge him by giving him fresh grass.

TO soil A CATTLE, in husbandry, is to feed them with grass daily mowed for them, instead of pasturing them.

SOIL, noun

1. Dirt; and foul matter upon another substance; foulness; apot.

2. Stain; tarnish. A lady's honor will not bear a soil

3. The upper stratum of the earth; the mold, or that compound substance with furnishes nutriment to plants, or which is particulary adapted to support and nourish them.

4. Land; country. We love our native soil

5. Dung; compost. Improve land by dung and other sort of soils.

TO TAKE SOIL, to run into the water, as a deer when pursued.

Soiled

SOIL'ED, participle passive Fouled; stained; tarnished; manured; fed with grass.

Soiliness

SOIL'INESS, noun Stain; foulness. [Little used.]

Soiling

SOIL'ING, participle present tense Defiling; fouling; tarnishing; feeding with fresh grass; manuring.

SOIL'ING, noun The act of practice of feeding cattle or horses with fresh grass, instead of pasturing them.

Soilless

SOIL'LESS, adjective Destitute of soil.

Soilure

SOIL'URE, noun Stain; pollution [Not in use.]

Sojourn

SOJOURN, verb intransitive so'jurn. To dwell for a time; to dwell or live in a place as a temporary resident, or as a stranger, not considering the place as his permanent habitation. So Abram sojourned in Egypt. Genesis 12:10.

SO'JOURN, noun A temporary residence, as that of a traveler in a foreign land.

Sojourner

SO'JOURNER, noun A temporary resident; a stranger or traveler who dwells in a place for a time. We are strangers before thee and sojourners, as all out father were. I Chron. 29.

Sojourning

SO'JOURNING, participle present tense Dwelling for a time.

SO'JOURNING, noun The act of dwelling in a place for a time; also, the time of abode. Exodus 12:40.

Sojournment

SO'JOURNMENT, noun Temporary residence, as that of a stanger or traveler.

Sol

SOL, noun [from Latin solidus.]

1. In France, a small copper coin; a penny; usually sou sor sous.

2. A copper coin and money of acount in Switzerland.

SOL, noun The name of a not in music.

Sol-Fa

SOL-FA, verb intransitive To pronounce the notes of the gammut, ascending or descending, ut, re , mi, sol, la, and e converso.

Solace

SOL'ACE, verb transitive [from Latin soatium; solor, to comfort, assuage, relieve. See Console.]

1. To cheer in grief or under calamity; to comfort; to relieve in afflication; to console; applied to persons; as, to solace one's self with the hop of future reward.

2. To allay; to assuage; as, to solace grief.

SOL'ACE, verb intransitive To take comfort; to be cheered or relieved in grief.

SOL'ACE, noun Comfort in grief; alleviation of grief or anxiety; also, that which relieves in distress; recreation. The propersolaces of age are not music and compliments, but wisdom and devotion.

Solaced

SOL'ACED, participle passive Comforted; cheered in afflication.

Solacing

SOL'ACING, participle present tense Relieving grief; cheering in affliction.

Solacious

SOLA'CIOUS, adjective Affording comfort or amusement. [Not in use.]

Solan-Goose

SOLAN-GOOSE, noun The gannet, (Pelecanus bassanus, ) as aquatic fowl found on the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland. It is nearly of the size of the domestic goose.

Solander

SOLAND'ER, noun A disease in horses.

Solano

SOLA'NO, noun A hot S.E. wind in Spain which produces inflammatory effects on men.

Solar

SO'LAR, adjective [Latin solaris, for sol, the sun.]

1. Pertaining to the sun, as the solar system;

2. Belonging to the sun as solar herbs. [Not used.]

3. In astrology, born under the predominant influence of the sun; as a solar people.

4. Measured by the progress of the sun, or by its revolution; as the solar year.

SOLAR FLOWERS, are those which open and shut daily, at certain determinate hours.

SOLAR SPOTS, dark spots that appear on the sun's disk, usually visible only by the telescope, but sometimes so large as to be seen by the naked eye. They adhere to the body of the sun; indicate its revolutions on its axis; are very changeable in their figure and dimensions; and vary in size from mere points to spaces 50, 000 miles in diametet.

Sold

SOLD, preterit tense and participle passive of sell.

SOLD, noun [from the foot of soldier.] Salary; military pay. [Not in use.]

Soldan

SOL'DAN, for sultan, [Not in use.]

Soldanel

SOL'DANEL, noun [L, soldanella.] A plant.

Solder

SOL'DER, verb transitive [from Latin solido, solidus.] To unite by a metallic cement. [See Soder.]

SOL'DER, noun A metallic cement. [See Soder.]

Soldier

SOLDIER, noun soljur. [from Latin solidus, a piece of money, the pay of a soldier ]

1. A man engaged in military service; one whose occupation is military; a man enlisted for service in an army; a private, or noe in the ranks. There ought to be some time for sober reflection between the life of a soldier and his death.

2. A man enrolled for service, when on duty or embodied for military discipline; a private; as a militia soldier

3. Emphatically, a brave warrior; a man of military experience and skill, or a man of distinguished valor. In this sense, an officer of any grade may be denominated a soldier

Soldieress

SOLDIERESS, noun A female soldier. [Not in use.]

Soldierlike

SOLDIERLIKE, SOLDIERLY, adjective Like or becoming a real soldier; brave; martial; heroic; honorable.

Soldierly

SOLDIERLIKE, SOLDIERLY adjective Like or becoming a real soldier; brave; martial; heroic; honorable.

Soldiership

SOLDIERSHIP, noun Military qulities; military character or state; martial skill; behavior becoming a soldier.

, noun

1. Soldiers collectively; the body of military men. I charge not the soldiery with ignorance and contempt of learning, without exception.

2. Soldiership; military service.

Sole

SOLE, noun [Latin solea, solum; that which sets or is set or laid. The radical sense coincides with that of sill.]

1. The bottom of the foot; and by a figure, the foot itselft.

2. The bottom of the shoe; or the piece of lether which constitutes the bottom. The cliga was a military show with a very thick sole tied above the instep.

3. The part of any thing that forms the bottom, and on which it stands upon the ground. Elms is proper for mills, soles for wheels, and pipes.

4. A marine fish of the genus Pleurinectes, so called probably because it keeps on or near the bottom of the sea. These fish abound on the British coast, and hence the name of sole bank, to the southward of Ireland. This fish sometimes grows to the weight of six or seven pounds.

5. In ship-building, a sort of lining, used to prevent the wearing of any thing.

6. A sort of horn under a horse's hoof.

SOLE, verb transitive To furnish with a sole; as, to sole a shoe.

SOLE, adjective [Latin solus.]

1. Single; being or acting without another; individual; only. God is the sole creator and sovereign of the world.

2. In law, single; unmarried; as a femme sole

Solecism

SOL'ECISM, noun

1. Impropriety in language, or a gross deviation from the rules of syntax; incongruity of words; want of correspondence or consistency. A barbarism may be in one word; a solecism must be of more.

2. Any unfitness, absurdity or impropriety. Cesar, by dismissing his guards and retaining his power, committed a dangerous solecism in politics.

Solecist

SOL'ECIST, noun One who is guilty of impropriety in language.

Solecistic

SOLECIST'IC, SOLECIST'ICAL, adjective Incorrect; incongruous.

Solecistical

SOLECIST'IC, SOLECIST'ICAL, adjective Incorrect; incongruous.

Solecistically

SOLECIST'ICALLY, adverb In a solecistic manner.

Solecize

SOL'ECIZE, verb intransitive To commit solecism.

Solely

SO'LELY, adverb Singly; alone; only; without another; as, to rest a cause solely on one argument; to rely solely on one's own strength.

Solemn

SOLEMN, adjective sol'em. [Latin solennis, form soleo, to be accustomed, to use, that is, to hold on or continue, as we have wont.]

1. Anniversary; observed once a year with religious ceremonies. The worship of this image was advanced and a solemn supplication observed every year. [I doubt the correctness of this definition of Johnson; or whether solemn in out language, ever includes the sense of anniversary. In the passage cited, the sense of anniversary is expressed by every year, and if it is included in solemn also the sentence is tautological. I should say the, that solemn in this passage of Stillingfleet, has the sense given in the second definition below.]

2. Religiously grave; marked with pomp and sanctity; attended with religious rites. His holy rites and solemn feasts profan'd.

3. Religiosly serious; piously grave; devout; marked by reverence to God; as solemn prayer; the solemn duties of the sanctuary.

4. Affectiong with seriousness; impressing or adapted to impress seriousness, gravity or reverence; sober; serious. There reign'd a solemn silence over all. To 'swage with solemn touches troubled thoughts.

5. Grave; serious; or affectedly grave; as a solemn face.

6. Sacred; enjoined by religion; or attended with a serious appeal to God; as a solemn oath.

7. Marked with solemaities; as a solemn day.

Solemness

SOL'EMNESS, noun

1. The state or quality of being solemn; reverential manner; gravity; as the solemness of public worship.

2. Solemnity; gravity of manner.

Solemnity

SOLEM'NITY, noun

1. A rite or ceremony annualy performed with religious reverence. Great was the cause; our old solemnities from no blind zeal or fond tradition rise, but sav'd from death, our Arguves yearly pay these grateful honors to the god of day.

[Solemnities seems here to include the sense of anniversary. See the fourth line. But in modern usage, that sense is rarely or never attached to the word.]

2. A religious ceremony; a ritual performance attended with religious reverence; as the solemnity of a funral or of a sacrament.

3. A ceremony adapted to impress awe; as the solemnities of the last day.

4. Manner of acting awfully serious. With horrible solemnity he caused every thing to be prepared for his triumph of victory.

5. Gravity; steady seriouness; as the solemnity of the Spanish language.

6. Affected gravity. Solemnity's a cover for a sot.

Solemnization

SOLEMNIZA'TION, noun The act of solemnizing; celebration; as the solemnization of a marriage.

Solemnize

SOL'EMNIZE, verb transitive

1. To dignify or honor by ceremonies; to celebrate; as, to solemnize the birth of Christ. Their choice nobility and flow'r met from all parts to solemnize this feast.

2. To perform with ritual ceremonies and respect, or according to legal forms; as, to solemnize a marriage.

3. To peform religiouly once a year.

4. To make grave, serious and reverential; as, to solemnize the mind for the duties of the sanctuary. [This use of the word is well authorized in the United States.]

Solemnly

SOL'EMNLY, adverb With gravity and religious reverence. Let us solemnly address the throne of grace.

2. With official formalities and be due authority. This question of law has been solemnly decided in the highest court.

3. With formal state.

4. With formal gravity and stateliness, or with affected gravity. There in deaf murmurs solemnly are wise.

5. With religious seriousness; as, I solemnly declare myselft innocent. I do solemnly assure the reader.

Solenite

SO'LENITE, noun Petrified solen, a genus of shells.

Solenness

SO'LENNESS, noun [from sole.] Singleness; a state of being unconnected with others.

Solicit

SOLIC'IT, verb transitive [Latin solicito. I know not whether this word is somple or compound; probably the latter.]

1. To ask with some degree of earnestness; to make petition to; to apply to for obtaining something. This word implies earnestness in seeking, but I think less earnestness in seeking, but I tinks less earnestness than beg, implore, entreat. and importune, and more than ask or request; as when we say, a man solicits the minister for an office; he solicits his father for a favor. Did I solicit thee form darkness to promote me?

2. TO ask for with some degree of earnestness; to seek by petition; as, to solicit an office; to solicit a favor.

3. To awake or excite to action; to summon; to invite. That fruit solicited her longing eye. Sounds and some tangible qualities solicit their proper senses, and force an entrance to the mind.

4. To attempt; to try to obtain. I view my crime, but kindle at the view, repeat old pleasures and solicit nes.

5. TO disturb; to disquiet; a Latinism rarely used. But anxious fears solicit my weak breast.

Solicitation

SOLICITA'TION, noun

1. Earnest request; a seeking to obtain something from another with some degree of zeal and earnestness; sometimes perhaps, importunity. He obtained a grant by repeated solicitations.

2. Excitement; invitation; as the solicitation of the senses.

Solicited

SOLIC'ITED, participle passive Earnestly requested.

Soliciting

SOLIC'ITING, participle present tense Requesting with earnestness; asking for; attempting to obtain.

Solicitor

SOLIC'ITOR, noun

1. One who asks with earnestness; one that asks for another.

2. An attorney, advocate or counselor at law who is authorized to practice in the English court or chancery. In America, an advocate or counselor at law, who, like the attorney general or state's attorney, prosecutes actions for the state.

Solicitor-General

SOLIC'ITOR-GENERAL, noun A lawyer in Great Britain, who is employed as counsel for the queen.

Solicitous

SOLIC'ITOUS, adjective [Latin solicitus.]

1. Careful; anxious; ver desirous, as to obtain something. Men are often more solicitous to obtain the favor of their king or of the people, than of their Maker.

2. Careful; anxious concerned; as respecting an unknown but interesting event; followed usually by about or for. We say, a man is solicitous about the fate ofhis petition, or about the result of the negotiation. He is solicitous for the safety of his ship.

3. Anxious; concerned; followed by for, as when something is to be obtained. Be not solicitous for the future.

Solicitously

SOLIC'ITOUSLY, adverb Anxiously; with car and concern. Errors in religion or in science are to be solicitously avoided. A wise prince solicitously promotes the prosperity of his subjects.

Solicitress

SOLIC'ITRESS, noun A female who solicits pr petitions.

Solicitude

SOLIC'ITUDE, noun [Latin solicitude ] Carefulness; concern; anxiety; uneasiness of mind occasioned by the fear of evil or the desire of good. A man feels soliciude when his friend is sick. We feel solicitude for the success of an enterprise. With what solicitude should men seek to secure future happiness.

Solid

SOL'ID, adjective [L, solidus; from the sense to setting or pressure, and hence allied to Latin solum, Eng. sill.]

1. Hard; firm; compact; having its constituent particles so close or dense as to resist the impression or penetration of other bodies. Hence solid bodies are not penetrable, not are the parts moveable and easily displaced like those of fluids. solid is opposed to fluid and liquid.

2. Not hollow; full of matter; as a solid globe or cone, as distinguished from a hollow one.

3. Having all the gemetrical dimensions; cubic; as, a solid foot contains 1728 solid inhes. [In this sense, cubic is not generally used.]

4. Firm; compact; strong; as a solid pier; a solid pile; a solid wall.

5. Sound; not weakly; as a solid constitution of body. [Sound is more generally used.]

6. Real; sound; valid; true; just; not empty or fallacious. Wise men seek solid reasons for their opinions.

7. Grave; profound; not light, trifling or superficial. These wanting wit, affect gravity, and go by the name of solid men.

8. In botany, of a fleshy, uniform, undivided substance, as a bulb or root; not spungy or hollow within, as a stem.

A solid FOOT, contains 1728 solid inches, weighing 1000 ounces of rain water.

SOLID ANGLE, an angle formed by three or more plain angles meeting in a point.

SOLID SQUARE, in military language, is a square body of troops; a body in which the ranks and files are equal.

SO'LID, noun A firm compact body. In anatomy and medical science, the bones, flesh and vessls of animal bodies are called solids, in distinction from the blood, chyle and other fluids.

Solidate

SOL'IDATE, verb transitive [Latin solido.] To make soild or firm. [Little used.]

Solidification

SOLIDIFICA'TION, noun The act of making solid.

Solidified

SOLID'IFIED, participle passive Made solid.

Solidify

SOLID'IFY, verb transitive [Latin solidus, solid, and facio, to make.] To make solid or compact.

Solidifying

SOLID'IFYING, participle present tense Making solid.

Solidity

SOLID'ITY, noun [Latin soliditas.]

1. Firmness; hardness; density; compactness; that quality of bodies whcih resists impression and penetration; opposed to fluidity. That which hinders the apporach of two bodies moving ine towards another, I call solidity

2. Fullness of matter; opposed to hollowness.

3. Moral firmness; soundness; strength; validity; truth; certainty; as opposed to weakness or fallaciounes; as the soildity of arguments or reasonig; the solidity of principles, truths or opinious.

4. In geometry, the solid contents of a body.

Solidly

SOL'IDLY, adverb

1. Firmly; densely; compactly; as the parts of a pier solidly united.

2. Firmly; truly; on firm grounds. A complete brave man ought to know solidly the main end of his being in the world.

Solidness

SOL'IDNESS, noun

1. The quality of being firm, dense or compact; firmness; compactness; solidity; as of material bodies.

2. Soundness; strength; truth; validity; as of arguments, reasons, principles, etc.

Solidungulous

SOLIDUN'GULOUS, adjective [Latin solidus, solid, and ungula, hoof.] Having hoofs that are whole or not cloven. A horse is a solidungulous animal.

Solifidian

SOLIFID'IAN, noun [Latin solus, alone, and fides, faith.] One who maintains that faith alone, without works, is necessary to justification.

Solifidianism

SOLIFID'IANISM, noun The tenets of solifidians.

Soliloquize

SOLIL'OQUIZE, verb intransitive To utter a soliloquy.

Soliloquy

SOLIL'OQUY, noun [Latin solus, alone, and loquor, to speak.]

1. A talking to one's self; a talking or discourse of a person alone, or not addressed to another person, even when others are persent. Lovers are always allowed the comfort of soliloquy

2. A written composition, reciting what it is supposed a person speaks to himself. The whole poem is a solioquy.

Soliped

SOL'IPED, noun [Latin solus, alone, or solidus, and pes, foot. But the word is ill formed.] AN animal whose foot is not cloven. The solopeds constitute an order of quadrupeds with undivided hoofs, corresponding to the Linnean genus Equus.

Solitair

SOLITA'IR, noun [Latin solitarius. See Solitary.]

1. A person who lives in solitude; a recluse; a hermit.

2. An ornament for the neck.

Solitarian

SOLITA'RIAN, noun A hermit.

Solitarily

SOL'ITARILY, adverb [from solitary.] In solitude; alone; without company. Feed they people with thy rod, the flock of thy heritage, that dwell solitarily in the wood. Micah 7:14.

Solitariness

SOL'ITARINESS, noun The state of being alone; forbearance of company; retirement, or habitual retirement. At home, in wholesome solitariness

2. Solitude; loneliness; destitution of company or of animated beings; applied to place; as the solitariness of the country or of a wood.

Solitary

SOL'ITARY, adjective [Latin solitarius, from solus, alone.]

1. Living alone; not having company. Some of the more ferocious animals are solitary seldom or never being found in flocks or herds. Thus the lion is called a solitary animal. Those rare and solitary these in flocks.

2. Retired; remote from society; not having company, or not much frequented; as a solitary residence or place.

3. Lonely; destitute of company; as a solitary life.

4. Gloomy; still; dismal. Let that night be solitary let no joyful voice come therein. Job 3:7.

5. Single; as a solitary instance of vengeance; a solitary example.

6. In botany, separate; one only in a place; as a solitary stipule. A solitary flower is when there is only one to each peduncle; a solitary seed, when there is only one in a pericarp.

SOL'ITARY, noun One that lives alone of in solitude; a hermit; a recluse.

Solitude

SOL'ITUDE, noun [Latin solitudo; from solus, alone.]

1. Loneliness; a state of being alone; a lonely life. Whoever is delighted with solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

2. Loneliness; remote ness from society; as the solitude of a wood or a valley; the solitude of the country. The solitude of his little parish is become matter of great comfort to him.

3. A lonely place; a desert. In these deep solitudes and awful cells, where heavenly-pensive contemplation dwells.

Solivagant

SOLIV'AGANT, adjective [Latin solivagus; solus, alone, and vagor, or wander.] Wandering alone.

Sollar

SOL'LAR, noun [Low Latin solarium.] A garret or upper room. [Not in use.]

Solmization

SOLMIZA'TION, noun [from sol, mi, musical notes.] A solfaing; a repetition or recital of the notes of the gammut.

Solo

SO'LO, noun [Latin solus, alone.] A tune, air or strain to be played by a single instrument, or sung by a single voice.

SOLOMON'S LEAF, noun A plant.

SOLOMON'S SEAL, noun A plant of the genus Convallaria, and another of the genus Uvularia.

Solstice

SOL'STICE, noun [Latin solstitium; sol, the sun, and sto, to stand.] In astronomy, the point in the ecliptic at which the sun stops or ceases to recede from the equator, eith north in summer, or south in winter; a tropic or tropical point. There are two solstices; the summer solsitce, the first degree of Cancer, which the sun enter on the 21st of June, and the winter solstice the first degree of Capricorn, which the sun enters on the 21st of Decenber.

SOLSIT'TIAL, adjective

1. Pertaining to a solstice; as a solstitial point.

2. Happening at a solstice; usually with us, at the summer solstice or midsummer; as solstitial heat.

Solubility

SOLUBIL'ITY, noun [from soluble.] The quality of a body which renders it susceptible of solution; susceptibility of being dissolved in a fluid. The solubility of resins is chiefly confined to spirits or alcohol.

Soluble

SOL'UBLE, adjective [Latin solubilis, from solvo, to melt.] Susceptible of being dissolved in a fluid; capable of solution. Sugar is solube in water; salt is soluble only to a certain extent, that is, till water is saturated.

Solute

SOLU'TE, adjective [Latin solutus, solvo.]

1. In a general sense, loose; free; as a solute interpretation. [Not in use.]

2. In botany, loose; not adhering; opposed to adnate; as a solute stipule.

SOLU'TE, verb transitive To dissolve. [Not in use.]

Solution

SOLU'TION, noun [Latin solutio, from solvo, to loosen, melt, dissolve. See Solve.]

1. The act of separating the parts of any body; disruption; breach.

2. The operation or process of dissolving or melting in a fluid; as the solution of sugar or salt. [Note. This word is not used in chimistry or mineralogy for the dissolution or melting of bodies by the heat of fire.] The term solution is appiled to a very extensive class of phenomena. When a solid disappears in a liquid, if the compound exhibits perfect transparency, we have an example of solution The word is applied both to the act of combination and to the result of the process. Thus common salt disappears in water, that is its solution takes place, and the liquid obtain ed is called a solution of salt in water. solution is the result of attraction or affinity between. the fluid and the solid. This affinity continues to operate to a certain point, where it is overbalanced bly the cohesion of the solid; it then ceases the fluid issaid to be saturated, the point where the operation ceases is called saturation, and the fluid is called a saturated solution solution is a true chimical union. Mixture is a mere mechanicall union of bodies.

3. Resolution; explanation; the act of explaning or removing difficulty or doubt; as the solution of a doubt in casuistry.

4. Release; deliverance; discharge.

5. In algebra and geometry, the answering of a question, or the resolving of a problem proposed.

SOLUTION OF CONTINUITY, the separation of connection of connected substances or parts; applied, in surgery, to a fracture, laceration, etc.

Solutive

SOL'UTIVE, adjective Tenging to dissolve; loosening; laxative.

Solvability

SOLVABIL'ITY, noun Ability to pay all just debts.

Solvable

SOLV'ABLE, adjective

1. That may be solved, resolved or explained.

2. That can be paid.

Solve

SOLVE, verb transitive solv. [Latin solvo.]

1. Properly, to loosen or separate the parts of any thing; hence, to explain; to resolve; to eclaircise; to unfold; to clear up; as what is obscure or difficult to be understood; as, to solve questions; to solve difficulties or a problem. When God shall solve the dark decrees of fate.

2. To remove; to dissipate; as, to solve doubts.

Solved

SOLV'ED, participle passive Explained; removed.

Solvency

SOLV'ENCY, noun [Latin solvens.] Ability to pay all debts or just claims; as, the solvency of a merchant is undoubted. The credit of a nation's notes depends on a favorable opinion of its solvency

Solvend

SOLVEND', noun A substance to be dissolved.

Solvent

SOLV'ENT, adjective

1. Having the power of dissolving; as a solvent body.

2. Able to pay all just debts. The merchant is solvent

3. Sufficient to pay all just debts. The estate is solvent

SOLV'ENT, noun A fluid that dissolves any substance, is called the solvent

Solvible

SOLV'IBLE, adjective Solvable, which see.

Somatic

SOMAT'IC, SOMAT'ICAL, adjective Corporeal; pertaining to a body. [Not in use.]

Somatical

SOMAT'IC, SOMAT'ICAL, adjective Corporeal; pertaining to a body. [Not in use.]

Somatist

SO'MATIST, noun [supra.] One who admits the existence or corporeal or material beings only; one who denies the existence of spiritual substances.

Somatology

SOMATOL'OGY, noun The doctrine of bodies or material substances.

Somber

SOMBER, SOMBRE, adjective Dull; dusky; cloudy; gloomy.

Sombre

SOMBER, SOMBRE adjective Dull; dusky; cloudy; gloomy.

Sombrous

SOMBROUS, adjective Gloomy.

Some

SOME, adjective sum.

1. Noting a certain quantity of a thing, but indeterminate; a portion greater or less. Give me some bread; drink some wine; bring some water.

2. Noting a number of persons or things, greater or less, but indeterminate. some theoretical writes allege that there was a time when there was no such thing as society.

3. Noting a person or thing, but not known, or not specific and definite. some person, I know not who, gave me the information. Enter the city, and some man will direct you to the house. Most gentlemen of property, as some period or other of their lives, are ambitious of representing their country in parliament.

4. It sometimes precedes a word of number or quantity, with the sense of about or near, noting want of certainty as to the specific number of amount, but something near it; as a village or some eighty houses; some two or three persons; some seventy miles distant; an object at some good distance.

5. some is often opposed to others. some men believe one thing, and others another.

6. some is often used without a noun, and then like other adjectives, is a substitute for a noun. We consumed some of our provisions, and the rest was given to the poor. some to the shores do fly, some to the woods. Your edicts some reclaim for sins, but most your life and blest example wins.

7. some is used as a termination of certain adjectives, as in handsome, mettlesome, blithesome, fullsome, lonesome, gladsome, gamesome. In these words, some has primarily the sense of little, or a certain degree; a little blithe or glad. But in usage, it rather indicates a considerable degree of the thing or quantity; as mettlesome, full of mettle or spirit; gladsome, very glad or joyous.

Somebody

SOMEBODY, noun [some and body.]

1. A person unknown or uncertain; a person indeterminate. Jesus said, somebody hath touched me Luke 8:46. We must draw in somebody that may stand 'Twixt us and danger.

2. A person of consideration. Before these days rose up Theudas, boasting himself to be somebody Acts 5:36.

Somedeal

SOMEDEAL, adverb [some and deal.] In some degree.