solan (solan)

[Also (Sc.) soland (with excrescent d ); solan-goose. Along th' Atlantick rock undreading climb, And of its eggs despoil the solan's nest. Collins , Works (ed. 1800), p. 99. ( Jodrell .) A white solan , far away by the shores of Mull, struck the water as he dived, and sent a jet of spray into the air. W. Black , Prince of Thule, xxvii. Solanaceae (sol-a-na'sē-ē), n. pl. [NL. (Bartling, 1830), Spenser, F. Q., II. vi. 3. single flower. They are usually rank-scented and po e 4. In printing, the penalty prescribed by the early printers for a violation of office rules. =Syn. 1 and 2. Consolation, etc. (see comfort ), mitigation, relief, softening, soothing, cheer, diversion, amusement. strongly narcotic properties, either throughout or in spe. cial organs, in Mandragora in the root, in most others strongly developed in the leaves, as in belladonna, tobacco, henbane, stramonium, and nightshade. In some, as the henbane, this principle is actively developed for a limited time only; in others, parts from which it is absent furnish a valued food, as the potato, tomato, and egg-plant, or a condiment, as Cayenne pepper. The order furnishes also several tonics and numerous diuretic remedies, as species of Physalis, Nicandra, Cestrum, and Solanum. Plants of this order are widely dispersed through warm climates of both hemispheres, extending beyond the tropics in North and South America, especially in the west, but le fre