One who, or that which, softens.

a. n. from Soften, v.

Somewhat soft.

A soft, effeminate person; a voluptuary.

In a soft manner.

See Softener.

The quality or state of being soft; -- opposed to hardness, and used in the various specific senses of the adjective.

Var. of Soldier.

The quality or state of being soggy; soddenness; wetness.

Filled with water; soft with moisture; sodden; soaked; wet; as, soggy land or timber.

Ho; -- a word used in calling from a distant place; a sportsman's halloo.

Self-named; self-styled; pretended; would-be.

That which soils or pollutes; a soiled place; spot; stain.

Stain; foulness.

Destitute of soil or mold.

Stain; pollution.

Dirty; soiled.

An evening party; -- distinguished from levee, and matin/e.

An Asiatic leguminous herb (Glycine max, formerly Glycine Soja) the seeds of which (called soy beans) are used in preparing the sauce called soy. Called also soya.

Var. of Soldier.

A temporary residence, as that of a traveler in a foreign land.

One who sojourns.

The act or state of one who sojourns.

Temporary residence, as that of a stranger or a traveler.

See Soc.

See Socman.

See Socmanry.

A toll. See Soc, n., 2.

An African anthropoid ape, supposed to be a variety of the chimpanzee.

A sou.

The gamut, or musical scale. See Tonic sol-fa, under Tonic, n.

A leguminous plant (Aeschynomene aspera) growing in moist places in Southern India and the East Indies. Its pithlike stem is used for making hats, swimming-jackets, etc.

Alone; -- chiefly used in stage directions, and the like.

To take comfort; to be cheered.

The act of solacing, or the state of being solaced; also, that which solaces.

Affording solace; as, a solacious voice.

Of or pertaining to plants of the natural order Solanaceae, of which the nightshade (Solanum) is the type. The order includes also the tobacco, ground cherry, tomato, eggplant, red pepper, and many more.

A solan goose.

See Sallenders.

Solanine.

An alkaloid produced by the action of hydrochloric acid on solanidine, as a tasteless yellow crystalline substance.

An alkaloid produced by the decomposition of solanine, as a white crystalline substance having a harsh bitter taste.

A poisonous alkaloid glucoside extracted from the berries of common nightshade (Solanum nigrum), and of bittersweet, and from potato sprouts, as a white crystalline substance having an acrid, burning taste; -- called also solonia, and solanina.

Resembling a potato; -- said of a kind of cancer.

A genus of plants comprehending the potato (Solanum tuberosum), the eggplant (Solanum melongena, and several hundred other species; nightshade.

Of or pertaining to the sun; proceeding from the sun; as, the solar system; solar light; solar rays; solar influence. See Solar system, below.

An apartment freely exposed to the sun; anciently, an apartment or inclosure on the roof of a house; in modern times, an apartment in a hospital, used as a resort for convalescents.

Injury of a photographic picture caused by exposing it for too long a time to the sun's light in the camera; burning; excessive insolation.

To become injured by undue or too long exposure to the sun's rays in the camera; -- an older term now replaced by overexpose.

Solar.

Solace.

Anything which alleviates or compensates for suffering or loss; a compensation; esp., an additional allowance, as for injured feelings.

Solary; military pay.

A sultan.

A plant of the genus Soldanella, low Alpine herbs of the Primrose family.

The country ruled by a soldan, or sultan; a sultanate{2}.

To unite (metallic surfaces or edges) by the intervention of a more fusible metal or metallic alloy applied when melted; to join by means of metallic cement.

One who solders.

a. n. from Solder, v. t.

To serve as a soldier.

The act of serving as a soldier; the state of being a soldier; the occupation of a soldier.

Like a soldier; soldierly.

Like or becoming a real soldier; brave; martial; heroic; honorable; soldierlike.

Military qualities or state; martial skill; behavior becoming a soldier.

A showy leguminous plant (Calliandra purpurea) of the West Indies. The flowers have long tassels of purple stamens.

A body of soldiers; soldiers, collectivelly; the military.

A small Italian coin worth a sou or a cent; the twentieth part of a lira.

Being or acting without another; single; individual; only.

A fluid mixture of a colloid and a liquid; a liquid colloidal solution or suspension.

An impropriety or incongruity of language in the combination of words or parts of a sentence; esp., deviation from the idiom of a language or from the rules of syntax.

One who commits a solecism.

Solecistical.

Pertaining to, or involving, a solecism; incorrect.

In a solecistic manner.

To commit a solecism.

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

Marked with religious rites and pomps; enjoined by, or connected with, religion; sacred.

Solemnness.

A rite or ceremony performed with religious reverence; religious or ritual ceremony; as, the solemnity of a funeral, a sacrament.

To solemnize; as, to solemnizate matrimony.

The act of solemnizing; celebration; as, the solemnization of a marriage.

Solemnization.

One who solemnizes.

In a solemn manner; with gravity; seriously; formally.

The state or quality of being solemn; solemnity; impressiveness; gravity; as, the solemnness of public worship.

Solemn; grand; stately; splendid; magnificent.

A cradle, as for a broken limb. See Cradle, 6.

Any species of marine bivalve shells belonging to the family Solenidae.

Of or pertaining to the solens or family Solenidae.

The state of being sole, or alone; singleness.

A small European sole (Solea minuta).

Same as Scaphopoda.

Either one of two species of singular West Indian insectivores, allied to the tenrec. One species (Solendon paradoxus), native of St. Domingo, is called also agouta; the other (Solendon Cubanus), found in Cuba, is called almique.

An order of lowly organized Mollusca belonging to the Isopleura. A narrow groove takes the place of the foot of other gastropods.

Pertaining to the Selenoglypha. See Ophidia. One of the Selenoglypha.

A suborder of serpents including those which have tubular erectile fangs, as the viper and rattlesnake. See Fang.

An electrodynamic spiral having the conjuctive wire turned back along its axis, so as to neutralize that component of the effect of the current which is due to the length of the spiral, and reduce the whole effect to that of a series of equal and parallel circular currents. When traversed by a current the solenoid exhibits polarity and attraction or repulsion, like a magnet.

A tribe of lophobranch fishes having a tubular snout. The female carries the eggs in a ventral pouch.

A bedplate; as, the soleplate of a steam engine. The plate forming the back of a waterwheel bucket.

A loft or garret. See Solar, n.

Skillful; clever; crafty.

The quality or state of being solert.

The state of being sole, or alone; soleness.

A sulphur mine.

A volcanic area or vent which yields only sulphur vapors, steam, and the like. It represents the stages of the volcanic activity.

To sol-fa. See Sol-fa, v. i.

The system of arranging the scale by the names do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si, by which singing is taught; a singing exercise upon these syllables.

A brilliant deep pink color with a purplish tinge, one of the dyes derived from aniline; -- so called from Solferino in Italy, where a battle was fought about the time of its discovery.

pl. of Solo.

To ask from with earnestness; to make petition to; to apply to for obtaining something; as, to solicit person for alms.

One who solicits.

Solicitous.

The act of soliciting; earnest request; persistent asking; importunity.

One who solicits.

The second law officer in the government of Great Britain; also, a similar officer under the United States government, who is associated with the attorney-general; also, the chief law officer of some of the States.

Disposed to solicit; eager to obtain something desirable, or to avoid anything evil; concerned; anxious; careful.

A woman who solicits.

The state of being solicitous; uneasiness of mind occasioned by fear of evil or desire good; anxiety.

A substance that is held in a fixed form by cohesion among its particles; a substance not fluid.

Drawn out from a heated solid bar, as by a process of spiral rolling which first hollows the bar and then expands the cavity by forcing the bar over a pointed mandrel fixed in front of the rolls; -- said of a weldless tube.