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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 edition. Excerpt: ...Solitaire, sol'.i.tair, a game for a single player, an ornament for the neck, a hermit. Solitude, sol'X.tude, a lonely place, a desert. Latin solttarlus, solltudo solus, alone); French solitaire. Solo, plu. solos, so.lOze (Rule xlii.), a piece of music for a single player or singer, a musical monologue. Soli, only one instrument of each kind to perform and the reBt to leave off playing. Thus if there are twenty violins, five flutes, five clarionets, two violoncellos, and three bugles, soli would mean one violin, one flute, one clarionet, fcc. to play and the rest to leave off. (Ital. solo, soli.) Solstice, sol'.stU, a day or two before and after the 22nd of June and the 22nd of December, when the curve of the ecliptic differs so little that no sensible variation is made in the length of time that the sun is above the horizon. (The gun or length of the day practically stands still.) Solstitial, soUtlsh'.al, adj. of solstice. Solstitial points, the most northern point of Cancer and the most southern of Capricornus. Solstitial colnre, -ho'.lure, a great circle which runs through the solstitial points, and cuts the equator at right angles. Latin solstttlum, solsUtlalis (solis) statio, stdre to stand still). Soluble. Solvable. Solubility. Solvability (see below). Soluble, sol'lu.b'l, that may be dissolved or melted. Solvable, sol'.va.b'l, that may be guessed or explained. Solubility, sol'lu.bU"A.ty, susceptibility of solution. Solvability, sol'.va.biV'X.ty, susceptibility of being explained. Solution, so.lu'.shun. Solutive, sol'lu.tiv. Latin sdlutio, stilubtlis, sdlubilttas (sdlvire supine sdlutum). Solve (1 syl.), to loose, to guess, to explain; solved (1 syl.); solv-ing (R. xix.), sol'.ving; solv-er, ssl'.ver (see above)....

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