solvent (solvent)

and n. [= Sp. It. sol vente, L. solven (t- ) s, ppr. of solvere, loosen, di olve: see solve.] I. a. 1. Having the power of di olving: as, a solvent body.-2. Able or sufficient to pay all just debts: as, a solvent person or estate. Specifically-(a) Able to pay one's debts as they become due in the ordinary course of busine . (b) Having property in such amount and situation that all one's debts can be collected out of it by legal proce . See insolvency. (c) Of sufficient value to pay all just debts: as, the estate is solvent. II. n. Any fluid or substance that di olves or renders other bodies liquid; a menstruum. Water is of all solvents the most common and most useful. Alcohol is the solvent of resinous bodies and of some other similarly constituted substances; naphtha, oil of turpentine, and ether are solvents of caoutchouc; chlorin and aqua regia, or nitro muriatic acid, are solvents of gold. The universal solvent sought by the alchemists. Lowell , Study Windows, p. 315. solver (sol'vėr), n. [ solve + -er1.] One who solves, in any sense of the verb. solvible (sol'vi-bl), a . See solvable . solyt, adv . An obsolete form of solely . King-duck (So mater i a spectabilis ), male. which the female lines the nest, and large, diversiform, variously feathered or gibbous bill; the eiders or eider-ducks. The common eider is S. mol li ima; the king-duck is S. spectabilis; the spectacled eider S. fischeri; Steller's eider is S. stelleri. The genus is often dismembered into So mater i a proper, Erionetta, Lampronetta, and Heniconetta (or Polysticta ), respectively represented by the four species named. They inhabit arctic and northerly regions, and are related to the scoters ( Edemia ). See Polysticta, and cut under eider -duck. somatic (sō-mat'ik), a. [= F. somatique, It was shown that in the British official nosology mental diseases were cla ified as disorders of the intellect, the idea of somatic disease as a ociated with insanity being studiously ignored. Dr. Tuke . We need here to call to mind the continuity of our presentations, and especially the existence of a background of organic sensations or somatic consciousne , as it is variously termed. J. Ward, Encyc. Brit., XX. 68. or pertaining to the cavity or interior hollow of the body of an animal, and especially to the body-walls of such cavity; parietal, as dist in guished from visceral or splanchnic; cœlomatic; somatopleural.-4. Pertaining to ma .-Somatic anthropology, that division of anthropology which deals with anatomical points.-Somatic cavity, the cœlomatic cavity, body-cavity, or cœlom: distinguished from enteric cavity, from which it is usually shut off completely. The interiors of the thorax and abdomen are somatic cavities. See cuts under Actinozoa, Cam panularia, and Hydrozoa. In the Cœlen terata, the somatic cavity, or enterocæle, is in free communication with the digestive cavity. Huxley , Anat. Invert., p. 56. Somatic cells, in bot., cells forming a part of the body of the individual, not specifically modified for any other purpose: said sometimes of those cells of plants which take part in vegetative reproduction. - Somatic death, death of the body as a whole: contrasted with death of any of its parts. - Somatic musculature, the muscles of the somatopleure; that one of the two chief layers of muscles which is subjacent to the dermic or outer epithe lium: contrasted with splanchnic musculature. - Somatic velocity, the ma of matter through which a disturbance is propagated in a unit of time while advancing along a prism of unit sectional area; ma -velocity. Rankine. soma tical (so-mat'i-kal), a. [ Same as somatic. Bailey, 1727. somatics (so-mat'iks), n. [Pl. of somatic (see -ics).] Same as somatology, 1. somatism (so'ma-tizm), n. [