SOLVENT

a. n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
a.

Having the power of dissolving; dissolving; as, a solvent fluid. "the solvent body." Boyle.

2.
a.

Able or sufficient to pay all just debts; as, a solvent merchant; the estate is solvent.

3.
n.

A substance (usually liquid) suitable for, or employed in, solution, or in dissolving something; as, water is the appropriate solvent of most salts, alcohol of resins, ether of fats, and mercury or acids of metal, etc.

4.
n.

That which resolves; as, a solvent of mystery.

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