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The state or quality of being solid; density; consistency, -- opposed to fluidity; compactness; fullness of matter, -- opposed to openness or hollowness; strength; soundness, -- opposed to weakness or instability; the primary quality or affection of matter by which its particles exclude or resist all others; hardness;…

The quality or state of being spheroidal.

The quality or state of being squalid; foulness; filthiness.

The state or quality of being stolid; dullness of intellect; obtuseness; stupidity. Indocile, intractable fools, whose stolidity can baffle all arguments, and be proof against demonstration itself. Bentley.

Stupor; astonishment; stupefaction. [R.] A stupidity Past admiration strikes me, joined with fear. Chapman.

The act of understanding, or supplying, something not expressed; also, that which is so understood or supplied. Trench.

Put secretly in the place of something else; foisted in. [R.]

An assistant editor, as of a periodical or journal.

mething extraneous; also, something which is added in excess or extraneously. This superaddition is nothing but fat. Arbuthnot.

Superabundant fecundity or multiplication of the species.

To supply; to furnish. [Obs.] Hammond.

Supply; aid afforded. [Obs.] Bacon.

Something added or appended, as to a name. [Obs.] Shak.

Deafness. [Obs.]

Tardiness. [Obs.] To instruct them to avoid all snares of tarditation, in the Lord's affairs. Herrick.

Slowness; tardiness. [R.] Sir K. Digby.

The quality or state of being tepid; moderate warmth; lukewarmness; tepidness. Jer. Taylor.

A person in some way remarkable with regard to the number four, as one born on the fourth day of the month, or one who reverenced four persons in the Godhead. Smart.

Anhydrous sodium sulphate, a mineral of a white or brown color and vitreous luster.

The quality or state of being timid; timorousness; timidness.