Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SO-LIC'I-TANT, n.

One who solicits.

SO-LIC-IT-A'TION, n.

1. Earnest request; a seeking to obtain something from another with some degree of zeal and earnestness; sometimes perhaps, importunity. He obtained a grant by repeated solicitations.
2. Excitement; invitation; as, the solicitation of the senses. – Locke.

SO-LIC'IT-ED, pp.

Earnestly requested.

SO-LIC'IT-ING, ppr.

Requesting with earnestness; asking for; attempting to obtain. This way and that soliciting the dart. – Dryden.

SO-LIC'IT-OR, n. [Fr. solliciteur.]

1. One who asks with earnestness; one that asks for another. – Shak.
2. An attorney, advocate or counselor at law who is authorized to practice in the English court of chancery. In America, an advocate or counselor at law, who, like the attorney-general or state's attorney, prosecutes actions for the state.

SO-LIC'IT-OR-GEN-ER-AL, n.

A lawyer in Great Britain, who is employed as counsel for the queen.

SO-LIC'IT-OUS, a. [L. solicitus.]

1. Careful; anxious; very desirous, as to obtain something. Men are often more solicitous to obtain the favor of their king or of the people, than of their Maker.
2. Careful; anxious; concerned; as respecting an unknown but interesting event; followed usually by about or for. We say, a man is solicitous about the fate of his petition, or about the result of the negotiation. He is solicitous for the safety of his ship.
3. Anxious; concerned; followed by for, as when something is to be obtained. Be not solicitous for the future.

SO-LIC'IT-OUS-LY, adv.

Anxiously; with care and concern. Errors in religion or in science are to be solicitously avoided. A wise prince solicitously promotes the prosperity of his subjects.

SO-LIC'IT-OUS-NESS, n.

Solicitude.

SO-LIC'IT-RESS, n.

A female who solicits or petitions.

SO-LIC'I-TUDE, n. [L. solicitudo.]

Carefulness; concern; anxiety; uneasiness of mind occasioned by the fear of evil or the desire of good. A man feels solicitude when his friend is sick. We feel solicitude for the success of an enterprise. With what solicitude should men seek to secure future happiness.

SOL'ID, a. [L. solidus; Fr. solide; It. and Sp. solido; from the sense of setting or pressure, and hence allied to L. solum, Eng. sill.]

1. Hard; firm; compact; having its constituent particles so close or dense as to resist the impression or penetration of other bodies. Hence solid bodies are not penetrable, nor are the parts movable and easily displaced like those of fluids. Solid is opposed to fluid and liquid.
2. Not hollow; full of matter; as, a solid globe or cone, as distinguished from a hollow one.
3. Having all the geometrical dimensions; cubic; as, a solid foot contains 1728 solid inches. Arbuthnot. [In this sense, cubic is now generally used.]
4. Firm; compact; strong; as, a solid pier; a solid pile; a solid wall. – Addison.
5. Sound; not weakly; as, a solid constitution of body. [Sound is more generally used.] – Watts.
6. Real; sound; valid; true; just; not empty or fallacious. Wise men seek solid reasons for their opinions.
7. Grave; profound; not light, trifling or superficial. These wanting wit, affect gravity, and go by the name of solid men. – Dryden.
8. In botany, of a fleshy, uniform, undivided substance, as a bulb or root; not spongy or hollow within, as a stem. – Martyn. A solid foot contains 1728 solid inches, weighing 1000 ounces of rain water. Solid angle, an angle formed by three or more plane angles meeting to a point. Solid square, in military language, is a square body of troops; a body in which the ranks and files are equal.

SOL'ID, n.

A firm compact body. In anatomy and medical science, the bones, flesh and vessels of animal bodies are called solids, in distinction from the blood, chyle and other fluids.

SOL'ID-ATE, v.t. [L. solido.]

To make solid or firm. [Little used.] – Cowley.

SO-LID-IF-IC-A'TION, n.

The act of making solid.

SO-LID'I-FI-ED, pp.

Made solid.

SO-LID'I-FY, v.t. [L. solidus, solid, and facio, to make.]

To make solid or compact. – Kirwan.

SO-LID'I-FY-ING, ppr.

Making solid.

SO-LID'I-TY, n. [Fr. solidité; L. soliditas.]

1. Firmness; hardness; density; compactness; that quality of bodies which resists impression and penetration; opposed to fluidity. That which hinders the approach of two bodies moving one toward another, I call solidity. – Locke.
2. Fullness of matter; opposed to hollowness.
3. Moral firmness; soundness; strength; validity; truth; certainty; as opposed to weakness or fallaciousness; as, the solidity of arguments or reasoning; the solidity of principles, truths or opinions. – Addison. Prior.
4. In geometry, the solid contents of a body.

SOL'ID-LY, adv.

1. Firmly; densely; compactly; as, the parts of a pier solidly united.
2. Firmly; truly; on firm grounds. A complete brave man ought to know solidly the main end of his being in the world. – Digby.

SOL'ID-NESS, n.

1. The quality of being firm, dense or compact; firmness; compactness; solidity; as, of material bodies.
2. Soundness; strength; truth; validity; as of arguments, reasons, principles, &c.

SOL-ID-UN'GU-LATE, n. [L. solidus and ungula.]

One of a tribe of mammals having a single or solid hoof on each foot; a soliped.

SOL-ID-UN'GU-LOUS, a. [L. solidus, solid, and ungula, hoof.]

Having hoofs that are whole or not cloven. A horse is a solidungulous animal. – Bacon. Barrow.

SOL-I-FID'I-AN, a.

Holding the tenets of Solifidians. – Feltham.

SOL-I-FID'I-AN, n. [L. solus, alone, and fides, faith.]

One who maintains that faith alone, without works, is necessary to justification. – Hammond.