Solemn (a.) Marked with religious rites and pomps; enjoined by, or connected with, religion; sacred.
Solemn (a.) Pertaining to a festival; festive; festal.
Solemn (a.) Stately; ceremonious; grand.
Solemn (a.) Fitted to awaken or express serious reflections; marked by seriousness; serious; grave; devout; as, a solemn promise; solemn earnestness.
Solemn (a.) Real; earnest; downright.
Solemn (a.) Affectedly grave or serious; as, to put on a solemn face.
Solemn (a.) Made in form; ceremonious; as, solemn war; conforming with all legal requirements; as, probate in solemn form.
Solemness (n.) Solemnness.
Solemnities (pl. ) of Solemnity
Solemnity (n.) A rite or ceremony performed with religious reverence; religious or ritual ceremony; as, the solemnity of a funeral, a sacrament.
Solemnity (n.) ceremony adapted to impress with awe.
Solemnity (n.) Ceremoniousness; impressiveness; seriousness; grave earnestness; formal dignity; gravity.
Solemnity (n.) Hence, affected gravity or seriousness.
Solemnity (n.) Solemn state or feeling; awe or reverence; also, that which produces such a feeling; as, the solemnity of an audience; the solemnity of Westminster Abbey.
Solemnity (n.) A solemn or formal observance; proceeding according to due form; the formality which is necessary to render a thing done valid.
Solemnizate (v. t.) To solemnize; as, to solemnizate matrimony.
Solemnization (n.) The act of solemnizing; celebration; as, the solemnization of a marriage.
Solemnized (imp. & p. p.) of Solemnize
Solemnizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Solemnize
Solemnize (v. t.) To perform with solemn or ritual ceremonies, or according to legal forms.
Solemnize (v. t.) To dignify or honor by ceremonies; to celebrate.
Solemnize (v. t.) To make grave, serious, and reverential.
Solemnize (n.) Solemnization.
Solemnizer (n.) One who solemnizes.
Solemnly (adv.) In a solemn manner; with gravity; seriously; formally.
Solemnness (n.) The state or quality of being solemn; solemnity; impressiveness; gravity; as, the solemnness of public worship.
Solempne (a.) Solemn; grand; stately; splendid; magnificent.
Solen (n.) A cradle, as for a broken limb. See Cradle, 6.
Solen (n.) Any marine bivalve mollusk belonging to Solen or allied genera of the family Solenidae; a razor shell.
Solenacean (n.) Any species of marine bivalve shells belonging to the family Solenidae.
Solenaceous (a.) Of or pertaining to the solens or family Solenidae.
Soleness (n.) The state of being sole, or alone; singleness.
Solenette (n.) A small European sole (Solea minuta).
Solenoconcha (n. pl.) Same as Scaphopoda.
Solenodon (n.) Either one of two species of singular West Indian insectivores, allied to the tenrec. One species (Solendon paradoxus), native of St. Domingo, is called also agouta; the other (S. Cubanus), found in Cuba, is called almique.
Solenogastra (n. pl.) An order of lowly organized Mollusca belonging to the Isopleura. A narrow groove takes the place of the foot of other gastropods.
Solenoglyph (a.) Pertaining to the Selenoglypha. See Ophidia.
Solenoglyph (n.) One of the Selenoglypha.
Solenoglypha (n. pl.) A suborder of serpents including those which have tubular erectile fangs, as the viper and rattlesnake. See Fang.
Solenoid (n.) An electrodynamic spiral having the conjuctive wire turned back along its axis, so as to neutralize that component of the effect of the current which is due to the length of the spiral, and reduce the whole effect to that of a series of equal and parallel circular currents. When traversed by a current the solenoid exhibits polarity and attraction or repulsion, like a magnet.
Solenostomi (n. pl.) A tribe of lophobranch fishes having a tubular snout. The female carries the eggs in a ventral pouch.
Soleplate (n.) A bedplate; as, the soleplate of a steam engine.
Soleplate (n.) The plate forming the back of a waterwheel bucket.
Soler (n.) Alt. of Solere
Solere (n.) A loft or garret. See Solar, n.
Solert (a.) Skillful; clever; crafty.
Solertiousness (n.) The quality or state of being solert.
Soleship (n.) The state of being sole, or alone; soleness.
Sol-faed (imp. & p. p.) of Sol-fa
Sol-faing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sol-fa
Sol-fa (v. i.) To sing the notes of the gamut, ascending or descending; as, do or ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si, do, or the same in reverse order.
Sol-fa (n.) The gamut, or musical scale. See Tonic sol-fa, under Tonic, n.
Solfanaria (n.) A sulphur mine.
Solfatara (n.) A volcanic area or vent which yields only sulphur vapors, steam, and the like. It represents the stages of the volcanic activity.
Solfeggiare (v. i.) To sol-fa. See Sol-fa, v. i.
Solfeggio (n.) The system of arranging the scale by the names do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si, by which singing is taught; a singing exercise upon these syllables.
Solferino (n.) A brilliant deep pink color with a purplish tinge, one of the dyes derived from aniline; -- so called from Solferino in Italy, where a battle was fought about the time of its discovery.
Soli (n.) pl. of Solo.
Solicited (imp. & p. p.) of Solicit
Soliciting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Solicit
Solicit (v. t.) To ask from with earnestness; to make petition to; to apply to for obtaining something; as, to solicit person for alms.
Solicit (v. t.) To endeavor to obtain; to seek; to plead for; as, to solicit an office; to solicit a favor.
Solicit (v. t.) To awake or excite to action; to rouse desire in; to summon; to appeal to; to invite.
Solicit (v. t.) To urge the claims of; to plead; to act as solicitor for or with reference to.
Solicit (v. t.) To disturb; to disquiet; -- a Latinism rarely used.
Solicitant (n.) One who solicits.
Solicitate (a.) Solicitous.
Soliitation (n.) The act of soliciting; earnest request; persistent asking; importunity.
Soliitation (n.) Excitement; invitation; as, the solicitation of the senses.
Solicitor (n.) One who solicits.
Solicitor (n.) An attorney or advocate; one who represents another in court; -- formerly, in English practice, the professional designation of a person admitted to practice in a court of chancery or equity. See the Note under Attorney.
Solicitor (n.) The law officer of a city, town, department, or government; as, the city solicitor; the solicitor of the treasury.
Solicitor-general (n.) The second law officer in the government of Great Britain; also, a similar officer under the United States government, who is associated with the attorney-general; also, the chief law officer of some of the States.
Solicitous (v. t.) Disposed to solicit; eager to obtain something desirable, or to avoid anything evil; concerned; anxious; careful.
Solicitress (n.) A woman who solicits.
Solicitude (n.) The state of being solicitous; uneasiness of mind occasioned by fear of evil or desire good; anxiety.
Solid (a.) Having the constituent parts so compact, or so firmly adhering, as to resist the impression or penetration of other bodies; having a fixed form; hard; firm; compact; -- opposed to fluid and liquid or to plastic, like clay, or to incompact, like sand.
Solid (a.) Not hollow; full of matter; as, a solid globe or cone, as distinguished from a hollow one; not spongy; dense; hence, sometimes, heavy.
Solid (a.) Having all the geometrical dimensions; cubic; as, a solid foot contains 1,728 solid inches.
Solid (a.) Firm; compact; strong; stable; unyielding; as, a solid pier; a solid pile; a solid wall.
Solid (a.) Applied to a compound word whose parts are closely united and form an unbroken word; -- opposed to hyphened.
Solid (a.) Fig.: Worthy of credit, trust, or esteem; substantial, as opposed to frivolous or fallacious; weighty; firm; strong; valid; just; genuine.
Solid (a.) Sound; not weakly; as, a solid constitution of body.
Solid (a.) Of a fleshy, uniform, undivided substance, as a bulb or root; not spongy or hollow within, as a stem.
Solid (a.) Impenetrable; resisting or excluding any other material particle or atom from any given portion of space; -- applied to the supposed ultimate particles of matter.
Solid (a.) Not having the lines separated by leads; not open.
Solid (a.) United; without division; unanimous; as, the delegation is solid for a candidate.
Solid (n.) A substance that is held in a fixed form by cohesion among its particles; a substance not fluid.
Solid (n.) A magnitude which has length, breadth, and thickness; a part of space bounded on all sides.
Solidago (n.) A genus of yellow-flowered composite perennial herbs; golden-rod.
Solidare (n.) A small piece of money.
Solidarity (n.) An entire union or consolidation of interests and responsibilities; fellowship; community.
Solidary (a.) Having community of interests and responsibilities.
Solidate (v. t.) To make solid or firm.
Solidifiable (a.) Capable of being solidified.
Solidification (n.) Act of solidifying, or state of being solidified.
Solidified (imp. & p. p.) of Solidify
Solidifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Solidify
Solidify (v. t.) To make solid or compact.
Solidify (v. i.) To become solid; to harden.