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Flowing; also, wanting solidity. B. Jonson.

A pump having a solid piston, or plunger, for drawing and forcing a liquid, as water, through the valves; in distinction from a pump having a bucket, or valved piston.

The solid piston of a force pump; the instrument by which water is forced in a pump.

f planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid.

To lay the basis of; to set, or place, as on something solid, for support; to ground; to establish upon a basis, literal or figurative; to fix firmly. I had else been perfect, Whole as the marble, founded as the rock. Shak. A man that all his time Hath founded his good fortunes on your love. Shak. It fell not, for it w…

the frame or constructional part of anything; as, the framework of society. A staunch and solid piece of framework. Milton.

To become congealed by cold; to be changed from a liquid to a solid state by the abstraction of heat; to be hardened into ice or a like solid body.

Not firm or solid; soft; unstable. Bacon.

The ripened ovary of a flowering plant, with its contents and whatever parts are consolidated with it.

The part of a solid next the base, formed by cutting off the, top; or the part of any solid, as of a cone, pyramid, etc., between two planes, which may be either parallel or inclined to each other.

ent. Artificial fuel, fuel consisting of small particles, as coal dust, sawdust, etc., consolidated into lumps or blocks.

in, SnCl4, forming a colorless, mobile liquid which fumes in the air. Mixed with water it solidifies to the so-called butter of tin. -- Fuming sulphuric acid. (Chem.) Same as Disulphuric acid, uder Disulphuric.

To be reduced from a solid to a Quid state by heat; to be melted; to melt.

The general outward form of any solid object, as of a column or a vase.

Lacking substance or solidity; tenuous. "Unconnected, gaseous information." Sir J. Stephen.

The process of becoming solid by cooling; a cooling and solidifying.

To trace out, as a line, figure, or solid, by the motion of a point or a magnitude of inferior order.

The formation or production of any geometrical magnitude, as a line, a surface, a solid, by the motion, in accordance with a mathematical law, of a point or a magnitude; as, the generation of a line or curve by the motion of a point, of a surface by a line, a sphere by a semicircle, etc.

An apparatus in which vapor or gas is formed from a liquid or solid by means of heat or chemical process, as a steam boiler, gas retort, or vessel for generating carbonic acid gas, etc.

ical magnitude, which, by its motion, generates another magnitude, as a line, surface, or solid; -- called also describent.