soldiering (soljering)

[Verbal n. of sol dier, v.] 1. The state of being a soldier; the act or condition of serving as a soldier; military duty; campaigning. The simple soldiering of Grant and Foote was solving some of the problems that confused scientific hypothesis. The Century, XXXVI. 664. sole of the foot, IMG:content-1488.png:[blocks in formation] With nimble soles . Shak., R. and J., i. 4. 15. 4. The part of anything that forms the bottom, and on which it stands upon the ground; the bottom or lower part of anything. (a) In agri., the bottom part of a plow, to the fore part of which is attached the point or share. (b) In farriery , the horny under side of any foot; the bottom of the hoof. (c) In fort ., the bottom of an embrasure or gun-port. See em brasure, 2. (d) Naut., a piece of timber attached to the lower part of a rudder, to render it level with the false keel. (e) The seat or bottom of a mine: applied to horizontal veins or lodes. (f) The floor of a bracket on which a plumber-block rests. ( g ) The plate which constitutes the foundation of a marine steam-engine, and which is bolted to the keelson. ( h ) The floor or hearth of the metal chamber in a reverberatory, puddling, or boiling furnace. (1) In carp., the lower surface of a plane. (j) The bottom frame of a wagon, coach, or railway-car. (k) The metal shoe of a sled-runner. (1) The lower edge of a turbine. ( m ) In ship - building, the bottom plank of the cradle, resting on the bilge ways, and sustaining the lower ends of the poppets, which are mortised into the sole and support the ve el. See cut under launching - ways. E. H. Knight. (n) In conch., the surface of the body on which a gastropod creeps. 5. A flat surface like the sole of the foot. The stones in the boulder-clay have a characteristic form and surface. They are usually oblong, have one or more flat sides or soles , are smoothed or polished, and have their edges worn round. A. Geikie, Encyc. Brit., X. 367. solel (sol), v . t .; pret. and pp. soled , ppr. soling . [ half sole , v. t. This fellow waits on him now in tennis court socks, or slippers soled with wool. B. Jonson, Epicæne, i. 1.