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.

A genus of yellow-flowered composite perennial herbs; golden-rod.

A small piece of money.

An entire union or consolidation of interests and responsibilities; fellowship; community.

Having community of interests and responsibilities.

To make solid or firm.

Capable of being solidified.

Act of solidifying, or state of being solidified.

To become solid; to harden.

The doctrine that refers all diseases to morbid changes of the solid parts of the body. It rests on the view that the solids alone are endowed with vital properties, and can receive the impression of agents tending to produce disease.

An advocate of, or believer in, solidism.

The state or quality of being solid; density; consistency, -- opposed to fluidity; compactness; fullness of matter, -- opposed to openness or hollowness; strength; soundness, -- opposed to weakness or instability; the primary quality or affection of matter by which its particles exclude or resist all others; hardness; massiveness.

In a solid manner; densely; compactly; firmly; truly.

State or quality of being solid; firmness; compactness; solidity, as of material bodies.

A tribe of ungulates which includes the horse, ass, and related species, constituting the family Equidae.

Solipedous.

Same as Soliped.

Solipedous.

Holding the tenets of Solifidians; of or pertaining to the solifidians.

The state of Solifidians.

Like the sun in form, appearance, or nature; resembling the sun.

To utter a soliloquy; to talk to one's self.

The act of talking to one's self; a discourse made by one in solitude to one's self; monologue.

A mammal having a single hoof on each foot, as the horses and asses; a solidungulate.

Having single hoofs.

Egotism.

Following the course of the sun; as, solisequious plants.

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

A hermit; a solitary.

The state of being solitary; solitariness.

In a solitary manner; in solitude; alone.

Condition of being solitary.

One who lives alone, or in solitude; an anchoret; a hermit; a recluse.

state of being alone, or withdrawn from society; a lonely life; loneliness.

Wandering alone.

Solivagant.

To cover, or provide with, a sollar.

Sullen; sad.

A flexible steel shoe (or one of the plates forming such a shoe), worn with mediaeval armor.

The act of sol-faing.

Performing, or performed, alone; uncombined, except with subordinate parts, voices, or instruments; not concerted.

One who sings or plays a solo.

One of the kings of Israel, noted for his superior wisdom and magnificent reign; hence, a very wise man.

A celebrated Athenian lawmaker, born about 638 b. c.; hence, a legislator; a publicist; -- often used ironically.

Of or pertaining to the Solifugae. One of the Solifugae.

Same as Solifugae.

A stopping or standing still of the sun.

Of or pertaining to a solstice.

The quality, condition, or degree of being soluble or solvable; as, the solubility of a salt; the solubility of a problem or intricate difficulty.

Susceptible of being dissolved in a fluid; capable of solution; as, some substances are soluble in alcohol which are not soluble in water.

Quality or state of being soluble.

To dissolve; to resolve.

The act of separating the parts of any body, or the condition of undergoing a separation of parts; disruption; breach.

Tending to dissolve; loosening; laxative.

The quality or state of being solvable; as, the solvability of a difficulty; the solvability of a problem.

Susceptible of being solved, resolved, or explained; admitting of solution.

Quality of being solvable.

A solution; an explanation.

The quality or state of being solvent.

A substance to be dissolved.

A substance (usually liquid) suitable for, or employed in, solution, or in dissolving something; as, water is the appropriate solvent of most salts, alcohol of resins, ether of fats, and mercury or acids of metals, etc.

One who, or that which, solves.

See Solvable.

Solely.

The whole axial portion of an animal, including the head, neck, trunk, and tail.

A Hamitic people of East Central Africa.

Of or pertaining to the body as a whole; corporeal; as, somatic death; somatic changes.

Somatic.

The science which treats of the general properties of matter; somatology.

One who admits the existence of material beings only; a materialist.

A cavity in the primary nectocalyx of certain Siphonophora. See Illust. under Nectocalyx.

The doctrine or the science of the general properties of material substances; somatics.

See Somite.

The outer, or parietal, one of the two lamellae into which the vertebrate blastoderm divides on either side of the notochord, and from which the walls of the body and the amnion are developed. See Splanchnopleure.

Of or pertaining to the somatopleure.

A directive influence exercised by a mass of matter upon growing organs.

Gloom; obscurity; duskiness; somberness.

In a somber manner; sombrously; gloomily; despondingly.

The quality or state of being somber; gloominess.

A kind of broad-brimmed hat, worn in Spain and in Spanish America.

Gloomy; somber.