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  • English Word Solstice Definition The time of the sun's passing the solstices, or solstitial points, namely, about June 21 and December 21. See Illust. in Appendix.
  • English Word Solstitial Definition Of or pertaining to a solstice.
  • English Word Solstitial Definition Happening at a solstice; esp. (with reference to the northern hemisphere), happening at the summer solstice, or midsummer.
  • English Word Solubility Definition The quality, condition, or degree of being soluble or solvable; as, the solubility of a salt; the solubility of a problem or intricate difficulty.
  • English Word Solubility Definition The tendency to separate readily into parts by spurious articulations, as the pods of tick trefoil.
  • English Word Soluble Definition Susceptible of being dissolved in a fluid; capable of solution; as, some substances are soluble in alcohol which are not soluble in water.
  • English Word Soluble Definition Susceptible of being solved; as, a soluble algebraic problem; susceptible of being disentangled, unraveled, or explained; as, the mystery is perhaps soluble.
  • English Word Soluble Definition Relaxed; open or readily opened.
  • English Word Solubleness Definition Quality or state of being soluble.
  • English Word Solus Definition Alt. of Sola
  • English Word Solute Definition Loose; free; liberal; as, a solute interpretation.
  • English Word Solute Definition Relaxed; hence; merry; cheerful.
  • English Word Solute Definition Soluble; as, a solute salt.
  • English Word Solute Definition Not adhering; loose; -- opposed to adnate; as, a solute stipule.
  • English Word Solute Definition To dissolve; to resolve.
  • English Word Solute Definition To absolve; as, to solute sin.
  • English Word Solution Definition The act of separating the parts of any body, or the condition of undergoing a separation of parts; disruption; breach.
  • English Word Solution Definition The act of solving, or the state of being solved; the disentanglement of any intricate problem or difficult question; explanation; clearing up; -- used especially in mathematics, either of the process of solving an equation or problem, or the result of the process.
  • English Word Solution Definition The state of being dissolved or disintegrated; resolution; disintegration.
  • English Word Solution Definition The act or process by which a body (whether solid, liquid, or gaseous) is absorbed into a liquid, and, remaining or becoming fluid, is diffused throughout the solvent; also, the product reulting from such absorption.
  • English Word Solution Definition release; deliverance; discharge.
  • English Word Solution Definition The termination of a disease; resolution.
  • English Word Solution Definition A crisis.
  • English Word Solution Definition A liquid medicine or preparation (usually aqueous) in which the solid ingredients are wholly soluble.
  • English Word Solutive Definition Tending to dissolve; loosening; laxative.
  • English Word Solvability Definition The quality or state of being solvable; as, the solvability of a difficulty; the solvability of a problem.
  • English Word Solvability Definition The condition of being solvent; ability to pay all just debts; solvency; as, the solvability of a merchant.
  • English Word Solvable Definition Susceptible of being solved, resolved, or explained; admitting of solution.
  • English Word Solvable Definition Capable of being paid and discharged; as, solvable obligations.
  • English Word Solvable Definition Able to pay one's debts; solvent.