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.
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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.
A division of arachnids having large, powerful fangs and a segmented abdomen; -- called also Solpugidea, and Solpugides.
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state of being alone, or withdrawn from society; a lonely life; loneliness.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.
Consisting of a greater or less portion or sum; composed of a quantity or number which is not stated; -- used to express an indefinite quantity or number; as, some wine; some water; some persons. Used also pronominally; as, I have some.
A person unknown or uncertain; a person indeterminate; some person.
In some degree; somewhat.
In one way or another; in some way not yet known or designated; by some means; as, the thing must be done somehow; he lives somehow.
A leap in which a person turns his heels over his head and lights upon his feet; a turning end over end.
In some degree; somewhat; to some extent; at some distance.
Having been formerly; former; late; whilom.
Former; sometime.
In some degree or measure; a little.
At some indefinite time.
In some place unknown or not specified; in one place or another.
Once; for a time.
To some indeterminate place; to some place or other.
One of the actual or ideal serial segments of which an animal, esp. an articulate or vertebrate, is composed; somatome; metamere.
Slumber; sleep.
See Somersault.
Of or pertaining to somnambulism; somnambulistic.
To walk when asleep.
The act of walking in sleep, called also sleepwalking.
A somnambulist.
A somnambulist.
Somnambulistic.
A condition of the nervous system in which an individual during sleep performs actions appropriate to the waking state; a state of sleep in which some of the senses and voluntary powers are partially awake; noctambulism.
A person who is subject to somnambulism; one who walks in his sleep; a sleepwalker; a noctambulist.
Of or pertaining to a somnambulist or somnambulism; affected by somnambulism; appropriate to the state of a somnambulist.
To summon.
A summoner; esp., one who summons to an ecclesiastical court.
Of or pertaining to sleep or dreams.
Somnial; somniatory.
Pertaining to sleep or dreams; somnial.
Inclined to sleep; drowsy; sleepy.
Causing or inducing sleep; soporific; dormitive; as, a somniferous potion.
Causing sleep; somniferous.
Driving away sleep.
The act of talking in one's sleep; somniloquism.
The act or habit of talking in one's sleep; somniloquy.
One who talks in his sleep.
Apt to talk in sleep.
A talking in sleep; the talking of one in a state of somnipathy.
A person in a state of somniapathy.
Sleep from sympathy, or produced by mesmerism or the like.
Sleepiness; drowsiness; inclination to sleep.
Sleepy; drowsy; inclined to sleep.
The somnolent state induced by animal magnetism (hypnotism); the hypnotic state.
Somnipathy.
A summoner; an apparitor; a sompnour.
A summons; a citation.
A summoner.
To summon; to cite.
A summoner.
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