Part 556

That which hinders the approach of two bodies when they are moving one toward another, I call solidity.

Locke.

2. Moral firmness; soundness; strength; validity; truth; certainty; -- as opposed to weakness or fallaciousness; as, the solidity of arguments or reasoning; the solidity of principles, triuths, or opinions.

3. (Geom.) The solid contents of a body; volume; amount of inclosed space.

Syn. -- Firmness; solidness; hardness; density; compactness; strength; soundness; validity; certainty.

Sol"id*ly (?), adv. In a solid manner; densely; compactly; firmly; truly.

Sol"id*ness, n. 1. State or quality of being solid; firmness; compactness; solidity, as of material bodies.

2. Soundness; strength; truth; validity, as of arguments, reasons, principles, and the like.

||Sol`id*un"gu*la (?), n. pl. [NL., from L. solidus solid + ungula a ||hoof.] (Zoöl.) A tribe of ungulates which includes the horse, ass, ||and related species, constituting the family Equidæ.

Sol`id*un"gu*lar (?), a. (Zoöl.) Solipedous.

Sol`id*un"gu*late (?), n. [Solid + ungulate.] (Zool.) Same as Soliped.

Sol`id*un"gu*lous (?), a. (Zoöl.) Solipedous.

Sol`i*fid"i*an (?), n. [L. solus alone + fides faith.] (Eccl.) One who maintains that faith alone, without works, is sufficient for justification; -- opposed to nullifidian. Hammond.

Sol`i*fid"i*an, a. Holding the tenets of Solifidians; of or pertaining to the solifidians.

Sol`i*fid"i*an*ism, n. The state of Solifidians.

Sol"i*form (?), a. [L. sol sun + -form.] Like the sun in form, appearance, or nature; resembling the sun. [R.] "Soliform things." Cudworth.

||So*lif"u*gæ (?), n. pl. [NL., from L. solifuga (better solipuga), a ||kind of venomous ant, or spider.] (Zoöl.) A division of arachnids ||having large, powerful fangs and a segmented abdomen; -- called also ||Solpugidea, and Solpugides.

So*lil"o*quize (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Soliloquized (#); p. pr. & vb. n. Soliloquizing (#).] To utter a soliloquy; to talk to one's self.

So*lil"o*quy (?), n.; pl. Soliloquies (#). [L. soliloquium; solus alone + loqui to speak. See Sole ly, and Loquacious.] 1. The act of talking to one's self; a discourse made by one in solitude to one's self; monologue.

Lovers are always allowed the comfort of soliloquy.

Spectator.

2. A written composition, reciting what it is supposed a person says to himself.

The whole poem is a soliloquy.

Prior.

Sol"i*ped (?), n. [Cf. F. solipède, It. solipede, Sp. solipedo; apparently fr. L. solus alone + pes, pedis, a foot; but probably fr. L. solidipes solid-footed, whole-hoofed. See Solid, and Pedal.] (Zoöl.) A mammal having a single hoof on each foot, as the horses and asses; a solidungulate. [Written also solipede.]

The solipeds, or firm-hoofed animals, as horses, asses, and mules, etc., -- they are, also, in mighty number.

Sir T. Browne.

So*lip"e*dous (?), a. Having single hoofs.