solicitor (sol is it or)

[Early mod. E. soli citour, tite's controller. Appetite is the Will's solicitor, and the Will is AppeHooker, Eccles. Polity, i. 7. 2. One who solicits; one who asks with earnestne . We single you As our best-moving fair solicitor . Shak ., L. L. L., ii. 1. 29. 3. An advocate; specifically, one who represents a party in a court of justice, particularly a court of equity. Generally, in the United States, wherever the distinction between courts of law and of equity remains, practitioners in the latter are termed solicitors. In England solicitors are officers of the supreme court, and the medium between barristers and the general public; they prepare causes for the barrister, and have a right of audience as advocates before magistrates at petty se ions, at quarter-se ions where there is no bar, in county courts, and in the bankruptcy court, but they cannot appear as advocates in any of the superior courts, or at a izes, or at any court of commi ion. So licitors were at one time officers only of the court of chancery, but the term is now applied to all attorneys. In Scotland solicitors are of two cla es solicitors in the supreme court, who occupy a position similar to that of solicitors in England; and solicitors at law, who are members of a society of law-agents at Edinburgh, incorporated by royal charter and entitled to practise before inferior courts; they are also known by the name of procurators. Law-agents of both kinds in Scotland are now on an equal footing. Slater . solid sarva, all, whole: see soles. Hence ult. sold2, soldo, sol2, sou, solder, soldier, consolidate, etc.] I. a. 1. Resisting flexure; not to be bent without force; capable of tangential stre : said of a kind of material substance. See II., 1. O, that this too, too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew! Shak., Hamlet, i. 2. 129. IMG:content-1507.png:[blocks in formation] 4. In bot., of a fleshy, uniform, undivided substance, as a bulb or root; not spongy or hollow within, as a stem.-5. In an at. and zool.: (a) Hard, compact, or firm in consistency; having no cavities or spongy structure: opposed to spongiose, porous, hollow, cancellate, exca vated, etc. (b) In entom., specifically, formed of a single joint, or of several joints so closely applied that they appear to be one: especially said of the capitulum or club of capitate antennæ.-6. Having three dimensions; having length, breadth, and thickne ; cubic: as, a solid foot contains 1,728 solid inches.-7. Sound; not weak; strong. A solid and strong constitution of body, to bear the fatigue. Watts , Improvement of Mind. ( Latham .) A Bottle or two of good solid Edifying Port, at honest George's, made a Night chearful, and threw off Reserve. Quoted in Ashton's Social Life in Reign of Queen Anne, [I. 199. 8. Substantial, as opposed to frivolous, fall a cio us, or the like; worthy of credit, trust, or esteem; not empty or vain; real; true; just; valid; firm; strong; hence, satisfactory: as, solid arguments; solid comfort; solid sense. In sollid content together they liv'd. Robin Hood and Maid Marian (Child's Ballads, V. 375). concern. Ever suspicious, anxious, solicitous , they are childishly drooping without reason. Burton , Anat. of Mel., p. 164. You are solicitous of the good-will of the meanest person, uneasy at his ill-will. Emerson, E ays, 1st ser., p. 216. solicitously (so-lis'i-tus-li), adv. In a solicitous manner; anxiously; with care or concern. solicitousne (sō-lis'i-tus-nes), n. The state of being solicitous; solicitude. solicitre (sō-lis'i-tres), n. [ Beauty is a good solicitre of an equal suit, especially where youth is to be the judge thereof. Fuller , Worthies, North amp tons hire.