solder, soder, soulder, sowder

[O. Fr. soudure, souldure a soldering; Fr. soudure solder, from O. Fr.souder, solder, soulder =to solder, from Lat. soli do to make firm; solidus firm, solid (q. v.).) 1. Lit .: A metal or alloy used to unite adjacent metallic edges or surfaces. It must be rather more fusible than the metal or metals to be united, and with this object the components and their relative amounts are varied to suit the character of the work. (See extract.) man to fight, than otherwise, yet Cæsar in his Commentaries called soldures in the tongue gallois, men who deuoted and swore themselues in a certaine band or othe one an other, and to the captaine."- Smith : Common wealth , bk. i., ch. xviii. 3. A common soldier, a private; one who serves in the army, but is under the rank of an officer. "It were meet that any one, before he came to be a captain, should have been a soldier."-Spenser: State of Ireland. 4. A brave man, a warrior; a man of military skill and experience; a man of distinguished valor. Number of Union soldiers furnished by each State and Territory during the American civil war: State. Alabama Arkansas. California. Colorado.. Connecticut Dakota Territory. Delaware. District of Colum... Florida. Illinois. Indiana. Iowa.... Kansas. Kentucky. Louisiana... Maine... Maryland Michigan.. Minnesota way. IMG:content-1702.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1703.png:[blocks in formation] That equally canst poize sternne with pity." Two Noble Kinsmen , i. 1.