Soken (n.) A district held by socage.
Soko (n.) An African anthropoid ape, supposed to be a variety of the chimpanzee.
Sol (n.) The sun.
Sol (n.) Gold; -- so called from its brilliancy, color, and value.
Sol (n.) A syllable applied in solmization to the note G, or to the fifth tone of any diatonic scale.
Sol (n.) The tone itself.
Sol (n.) A sou.
Sol (n.) A silver and gold coin of Peru. The silver sol is the unit of value, and is worth about 68 cents.
Sola (a.) See Solus.
Sola (n.) A leguminous plant (Aeschynomene aspera) growing in moist places in Southern India and the East Indies. Its pithlike stem is used for making hats, swimming-jackets, etc.
Solace (v. t.) Comfort in grief; alleviation of grief or anxiety; also, that which relieves in distress; that which cheers or consoles; relief.
Solace (v. t.) Rest; relaxation; ease.
Solaced (imp. & p. p.) of Solace
Solacing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Solace
Solace (n.) To cheer in grief or under calamity; to comfort; to relieve in affliction, solitude, or discomfort; to console; -- applied to persons; as, to solace one with the hope of future reward.
Solace (n.) To allay; to assuage; to soothe; as, to solace grief.
Solace (v. i.) To take comfort; to be cheered.
Solacement (n.) The act of solacing, or the state of being solaced; also, that which solaces.
Solacious (a.) Affording solace; as, a solacious voice.
Solanaceous (a.) Of or pertaining to plants of the natural order Solanaceae, of which the nightshade (Solanum) is the type. The order includes also the tobacco, ground cherry, tomato, eggplant, red pepper, and many more.
Soland (n.) A solan goose.
Solander (n.) See Sallenders.
Solan goose () The common gannet.
Solania (n.) Solanine.
Solanicine (n.) An alkaloid produced by the action of hydrochloric acid on solanidine, as a tasteless yellow crystalline substance.
Solanidine (n.) An alkaloid produced by the decomposition of solanine, as a white crystalline substance having a harsh bitter taste.
Solanine (n.) A poisonous alkaloid glucoside extracted from the berries of common nightshade (Solanum nigrum), and of bittersweet, and from potato sprouts, as a white crystalline substance having an acrid, burning taste; -- called also solonia, and solanina.
Solano () A hot, oppressive wind which sometimes blows in the Mediterranean, particularly on the eastern coast of Spain.
Solanoid (a.) Resembling a potato; -- said of a kind of cancer.
Solanum (n.) A genus of plants comprehending the potato (S. tuberosum), the eggplant (S. melongena, and several hundred other species; nightshade.
Solar (a.) A loft or upper chamber; a garret room.
Solar (a.) Of or pertaining to the sun; proceeding from the sun; as, the solar system; solar light; solar rays; solar influence. See Solar system, below.
Solar (a.) Born under the predominant influence of the sun.
Solar (a.) Measured by the progress or revolution of the sun in the ecliptic; as, the solar year.
Solar (a.) Produced by the action of the sun, or peculiarly affected by its influence.
Solaria (pl. ) of Solarium
Solarium (n.) An apartment freely exposed to the sun; anciently, an apartment or inclosure on the roof of a house; in modern times, an apartment in a hospital, used as a resort for convalescents.
Solarium (n.) Any one of several species of handsome marine spiral shells of the genus Solarium and allied genera. The shell is conical, and usually has a large, deep umbilicus exposing the upper whorls. Called also perspective shell.
Solarization (n.) Injury of a photographic picture caused by exposing it for too long a time to the sun's light in the camera; burning; excessive insolation.
Solarized (imp. & p. p.) of Solarize
Solarizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Solarize
Solarize (v. t.) To injure by too long exposure to the light of the sun in the camera; to burn.
Solarize (v. i.) To become injured by undue or too long exposure to the sun's rays in the camera.
Solary (a.) Solar.
Solas (n.) Solace.
Solatium (n.) Anything which alleviates or compensates for suffering or loss; a compensation; esp., an additional allowance, as for injured feelings.
Sold () imp. & p. p. of Sell.
Sold (n.) Solary; military pay.
Soldan (n.) A sultan.
Soldanel (n.) A plant of the genus Soldanella, low Alpine herbs of the Primrose family.
Soldanrie (n.) The country ruled by a soldan, or sultan.
Solder (n.) A metal or metallic alloy used when melted for uniting adjacent metallic edges or surfaces; a metallic cement.
Solder (n.) anything which unites or cements.
Soldered (imp. & p. p.) of Solder
Soldering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Solder
Solder (n.) To unite (metallic surfaces or edges) by the intervention of a more fusible metal or metallic alloy applied when melted; to join by means of metallic cement.
Solder (n.) To mend; to patch up.
Solderer (n.) One who solders.
Soldering () a. & n. from Solder, v. t.
Soldier (n.) One who is engaged in military service as an officer or a private; one who serves in an army; one of an organized body of combatants.
Soldier (n.) Especially, a private in military service, as distinguished from an officer.
Soldier (n.) A brave warrior; a man of military experience and skill, or a man of distinguished valor; -- used by way of emphasis or distinction.
Soldier (n.) The red or cuckoo gurnard (Trigla pini.)
Soldier (n.) One of the asexual polymorphic forms of white ants, or termites, in which the head and jaws are very large and strong. The soldiers serve to defend the nest. See Termite.
Soldier (v. i.) To serve as a soldier.
Soldier (v. i.) To make a pretense of doing something, or of performing any task.
Soldieress (n.) A female soldier.
Soldiering (n.) The act of serving as a soldier; the state of being a soldier; the occupation of a soldier.
Soldiering (n.) The act of feigning to work. See the Note under Soldier, v. i., 2.
Soldierlike (a.) Like a soldier; soldierly.
Soldierly (a.) Like or becoming a real soldier; brave; martial; heroic; honorable; soldierlike.
Soldiership (n.) Military qualities or state; martial skill; behavior becoming a soldier.
Soldierwood (n.) A showy leguminous plant (Calliandra purpurea) of the West Indies. The flowers have long tassels of purple stamens.
Soldiery (n.) A body of soldiers; soldiers, collectivelly; the military.
Soldiery (n.) Military service.
Soldi (pl. ) of Soldo
Soldo (n.) A small Italian coin worth a sou or a cent; the twentieth part of a lira.
Sole (n.) Any one of several species of flatfishes of the genus Solea and allied genera of the family Soleidae, especially the common European species (Solea vulgaris), which is a valuable food fish.
Sole (n.) Any one of several American flounders somewhat resembling the true sole in form or quality, as the California sole (Lepidopsetta bilineata), the long-finned sole (Glyptocephalus zachirus), and other species.
Sole (n.) The bottom of the foot; hence, also, rarely, the foot itself.
Sole (n.) The bottom of a shoe or boot, or the piece of leather which constitutes the bottom.
Sole (n.) The bottom or lower part of anything, or that on which anything rests in standing.
Sole (n.) The bottom of the body of a plow; -- called also slade; also, the bottom of a furrow.
Sole (n.) The horny substance under a horse's foot, which protects the more tender parts.
Sole (n.) The bottom of an embrasure.
Sole (n.) A piece of timber attached to the lower part of the rudder, to make it even with the false keel.
Sole (n.) The seat or bottom of a mine; -- applied to horizontal veins or lodes.
Soled (imp. & p. p.) of Sole
Soling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sole
Sole (v. t.) To furnish with a sole; as, to sole a shoe.
Sole (a.) Being or acting without another; single; individual; only.
Sole (a.) Single; unmarried; as, a feme sole.
Solecism (n.) An impropriety or incongruity of language in the combination of words or parts of a sentence; esp., deviation from the idiom of a language or from the rules of syntax.
Solecism (n.) Any inconsistency, unfitness, absurdity, or impropriety, as in deeds or manners.
Solecist (n.) One who commits a solecism.
Solecistic (a.) Solecistical.
Solecistical (a.) Pertaining to, or involving, a solecism; incorrect.
Solecistically (adv.) In a solecistic manner.
Solecize (v. i.) To commit a solecism.
Solely (adv.) Singly; alone; only; without another; as, to rest a cause solely one argument; to rely solelyn one's own strength.