solidness

[Eng. solid; -ne .] 1. The quality or state of being solid, dense, or compact; solidity. "The closene and solidne of the wood and pith of the oake."- Bacon : Nat . Hist ., § 635. 2. Soundne , strength, truth, validity, as of arguments, reasons, principles, . "But must I needs want solidne , because By metaphors I speak?" Bunyan: Apology . sol-Id-ŭm, subst . [Lat. neut. sing. of solidus = solid.] 1. Arch .: The die of a pedestal. 2. Scots Law : A complete sum. To be bound in solidum: To be bound for the whole debt, though only one of several obligants. When several debtors are bound, each for his own share, they are said to be bound pro rata. *sol-Id-un-gu-lạ, s . pl . [Latin solidus =whole, entire, and ungula =a hoof.] Zool .: A lapsed group, equivalent to the modern Equidae (q. v.). sin, as; expect, Xenophon, exist. ph = f. One ball being removed, the object of the player is to remove all the other balls except one by taking them as in the game of draughts; the game may be played with ordinary playing cards, the object being to so combine the cards that similar denom- i nations may be grouped. 1. Pezophaps solitaria . [PEZOPHAPS.] 2. Ptilogonys armil lat us. About eight inches ash-gray, paler on belly. It is noted for the sweet- ne of its song. "As far as I know the food of the Solitaire is exclusively berries."-Go e: Birds of Jamaica , p. 205. "Lyve in contemplation and sol it a rines."-Tyndall: Works , p. 196. 2. The quality or state of being deserted or soli- tary; solitude, loneline . (Said of places.) *sol-1-tăr-1-ty, subst . [Eng. solitary:-ty.] Soli- tude, seclusion. "Abandoned at once to solitarity and penury."-W. Taylor of Norwich: Memoirs, ii. 351. Astron.: A small constellation, established by Lemonnier, above Centaur us, and near the tail of Hydra. The largest star is of the sixth magnitude. sol-i-tar-, *sol-i-tar-ie, a . & s . [ Fr.solitaire , so-lil-o-quize, v. i. [Eng. soliloqu (y); -ize.] To from Lat. solitarius , from solitas loneline , from utter a soliloquy; to talk to one's self. "At a proper time and place Religiously soliloquize ," IMG:content-1715.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Not much visited or frequented; retired, se. cluded; remote from society; lonely. "Alone within her solitary hut." Words worth: Excursion , bk. v. 3. Pa ed or spent alone, or without company; lonely; as, a solitary life. *B. As subst.: One who lives alone or in solitude; a hermit, a recluse. "I noted that the Solitary's cheek Confe ed the power of nature." Words worth: Excursion , bk. vi. Solitary simply denotes the absence of all a man where there is no human being but himself; and it is solitary to a brute when there are no brutes with which it can hold society. Desert con- veys the idea of a place made solitary by being shunned, from its unfitne as a place of residence; all deserts are places of such wildne as seem to frighten away almost all inhabitants. Desolate conveys the idea of a place made solitary , or bare of inhabitants, and all traces of habitation, by violent means; every country may become deso late which is exposed to the inroads of a ravaging "O solitude! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face?" IMG:content-1716.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1717.png:[blocks in formation] solo sō-10 ( pl. so-lōş, sō-11), s. (Ital., from Lat. solus alone.] Music: A tune, air, or strain to be played by a single instrument or sung by a single voice, with or without accompaniment, which should always be strictly subordinate. "There is not a laborer or handicraftsman that, in the cool of the evening, does not relieve himself with solos and sonatas."- Tatler, No. 222.