Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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.