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, One who, or that which, qualifies; that which modifies, reduces, tempers or restrains.

able, as of an employment or privilege; to supply with legal power or capacity. He had qualified himself for municipal office by taking the oaths to the sovereigns in possession. Macaulay.

Rasplike; as, raduliform teeth.

Having the form of a rostellum, or small beak.

Producing, or impregnated with, salt. Saliferous rocks (Geol.), the New Red Sandstone system of some geologists; -- so called because, in Europe, this formation contains beds of salt. The saliferous beds of New York State belong largely to the Salina period of the Upper Silurian. See the Chart of Geology.…

Capable of neutralizing an acid to form a salt; -- said of bases; thus, ammonia is salifiable.

The act, process, or result of salifying; the state of being salified.

To form a salt with; to convert into a salt; as, to salify a base or an acid.

Shaped like a sandal or slipper.

Scutellate.

Life for one's self; living solely or chiefly for one's own pleasure or good.

One who steals anything in a shop, or takes goods privately from a shop; one who, under pretense of buying goods, takes occasion to steal.

Larceny committed in a shop; the stealing of anything from a shop.

The act of simplifying. A. Smith.

process for doing or making. The collection of duties is drawn to a point, and so far simplified. A. Hamilton. It is important, in scientific pursuits, to be caitious in simplifying our deductions. W. Nicholson.

Producing soboles. See Illust. of Houseleek.

ntains that faith alone, without works, is sufficient for justification; -- opposed to nullifidian. Hammond.

The state of Solifidians.

Like the sun in form, appearance, or nature; resembling the sun. [R.] "Soliform things." Cudworth.

A division of arachnids having large, powerful fangs and a segmented abdomen; -- called also Solpugidea, and Solpugides.