solid (solid)

and n. [Early mod. E. also sollid; found. Not barren praise alone, that gaudy flower, Fair only to the sight, but solid power. Dryden, Abs. and Achit., 1. 298. The older an Author is, commonly the more solid he is, and the greater teller of Truth. Howell , Letters, iv. 31. These, wanting wit, affect gravity, and go by the name of solid men, and a solid man is, in plain English, a solid solemn fool. Dryden. (Johnson. This nobleman, being... of a very solid mind, could never be brought to understand the nature of my thoughts. R. D. Black more , Lorna Doone, Ixviii. 10. Financially sound or safe; po e ing plenty of capital; wealthy; well-established; reliable. Solid men of Boston, banish long potations; Solid men of Boston, make no long orations. C. Morris, Pitt and Dundas's Return. From Lyra Ur- [banica. ( Bartlett .) 11. Unanimous, or practically unanimous: as, a solid vote; the solid South. [Political slang, U. S.]-12. Without break or opening, as a wall or façade. The apse, properly speaking, is a solid semidome, but J. Fergu on, Hist. Arch., I. 475. above. always solid below, though generally broken by windows 13. Smooth; even; unbroken; unvaried; unshaded: noting a color or pigment.-14. Without the liquor, as oysters: said in measuring: opposite to in liquor. - Pile solid, in her. See piler. -Solid angle. See angles. - Solid bath, a form of bath in which the body is enveloped in a solid or semisolid substance, as mud, hay, dung, peat, sand, or ashes. -Solid blow, cam, content, culture. See the nouns. - Solid bulb. See bulb, 1. - Solid color. (a) In decorative art, a color which invests the whole of an object, as a porcelain vase: more often used adjectively: as, solid -color porcelains: a collection of solid - color pieces. See def. 13. ( b ) With reference to fabrics, etc., a uniform color.Solid geometry, green, harmonic. See the nouns.Solid linkage. See linkage, 1.- Solid matter, in print ing, matter set without leads between the lines. - Solid measure. Same as cubic measure (which see, under mea sure).-Solid number, an integer having three prime factors. - Solid problem, a problem which virtually involves a cubic equation, and can therefore not be solved geometrically by the rule and compa alone. - Solid South. See south. Solid square ( mil it.). See squarel. - To be solid for, to be thoroughly in favor of; be unflagging in support of. [Slang, U. S.] "Lyra, don't speak of it." "Never!" said Mrs. WilHowells, Annie Kilburn, xviii. mington, with delight. "I'm solid for Mr. Peck every time." To be or make one's self solid with, to be or put one's self on a firm or satisfactory footing with; have or secure the unfailing favor or support of: as, to be solid with the police; to make one's self solid with those in authority or power. [Slang, U. S.] solid In nine cases out of ten, we thus succeeded in making ourselves "solid with the administration" before we had been in a town or village forty-eight hours.