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Soliped

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

Solisequious

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

Solitaire

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

Solitarily

In a solitary manner; in solitude; alone.

Solitary

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

Solitude

state of being alone, or withdrawn from society; a lonely life; loneliness.

Sollar

To cover, or provide with, a sollar.

Solleret

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

Solo

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

Soloist

One who sings or plays a solo.

Solomon

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

Solon

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

Solpugid

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

Solstice

A stopping or standing still of the sun.

Solubility

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

Soluble

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

Solute

To dissolve; to resolve.

Solution

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

Solutive

Tending to dissolve; loosening; laxative.

Solvability

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

Solvable

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

Solve

A solution; an explanation.

Solvency

The quality or state of being solvent.

Solvend

A substance to be dissolved.

Solvent

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.

Solver

One who, or that which, solves.

Soma

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

Somatic

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

Somatics

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

Somatist

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

Somatocyst

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

Somatology

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

Somatopleure

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.

Somatotropism

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

Sombrero

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

Some

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.

Somebody

A person unknown or uncertain; a person indeterminate; some person.

Somehow

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.

Somerset Somersault

A leap in which a person turns his heels over his head and lights upon his feet; a turning end over end.

Something

In some degree; somewhat; to some extent; at some distance.

Sometime

Having been formerly; former; late; whilom.

Somewhat

In some degree or measure; a little.

Somewhere

In some place unknown or not specified; in one place or another.

Somewhither

To some indeterminate place; to some place or other.

Somite

One of the actual or ideal serial segments of which an animal, esp. an articulate or vertebrate, is composed; somatome; metamere.

Somnambular

Of or pertaining to somnambulism; somnambulistic.

Somnambulism

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.

Somnambulist

A person who is subject to somnambulism; one who walks in his sleep; a sleepwalker; a noctambulist.

Somnambulistic

Of or pertaining to a somnambulist or somnambulism; affected by somnambulism; appropriate to the state of a somnambulist.

Somner

A summoner; esp., one who summons to an ecclesiastical court.

Somnial

Of or pertaining to sleep or dreams.

Somniferous

Causing or inducing sleep; soporific; dormitive; as, a somniferous potion.

Somniloquism

The act or habit of talking in one's sleep; somniloquy.

Somniloquy

A talking in sleep; the talking of one in a state of somnipathy.

Somnipathy

Sleep from sympathy, or produced by mesmerism or the like.

somnolism

The somnolent state induced by animal magnetism (hypnotism); the hypnotic state.

Somnour

A summoner; an apparitor; a sompnour.

Son

A male child; the male issue, or offspring, of a parent, father or mother.

Son-in-law

The husband of one's daughter; a man in his relationship to his wife's parents.

Sonance

A sound; a tune; as, to sound the tucket sonance.

Sonant

Of or pertaining to sound; sounding.

Sonata

An extended composition for one or two instruments, consisting usually of three or four movements; as, Beethoven's sonatas for the piano, for the violin and piano, etc.

Sonde Sond

That which is sent; a message or messenger; hence, also, a visitation of providence; an affliction or trial.

Sondeli

The musk shrew. See under Musk.

Sonderclass

A special class of small yachts developed in Germany under the patronage of Emperor William and Prince Henry of Prussia, and so called because these yachts do not conform to the restrictions for the regular classes established by the rules of the International Yacht Racing Union. In yachts of the sonderclass, as prescribed for the season of 1911, the aggregate of the length on water line, extreme beam, and extreme draft must be not more than 32 feet; the weight, not less than 4,035 pounds (without crew); the sail area, not more than 550 square yards; and the cost of construction (for American boats) not more than $2400. The crew must be amateurs and citizens of the country in which the yacht was built.

Song

That which is sung or uttered with musical modulations of the voice, whether of a human being or of a bird, insect, etc.

Songcraft

The art of making songs or verses; metrical composition; versification.

Songful

Disposed to sing; full of song.

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