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To take food; to feed; especially, to take solid, in distinction from liquid, food; to board. He did eat continually at the king's table. 2 Sam. ix. 13.

The semisolid external layer of protoplasm in some unicellular organisms, as the amoeba; ectoplasm; exoplasm.

A solid hydrocarbon, C20H42, of the paraffine series, of artificial production, and also probably occurring in petroleum.

r volatile portion of certain oily substance, as distinguished from stearoptene, the more solid parts. [Written also elaoptene.]

A solid isomeric modification of olein.

itesimal part of anything of the same nature as the entire magnitude considered; as, in a solid an element may be infinitesimal portion between any two planes that are separated and indefinitely small distance. In the calculus, element is sometimes used as synonymous with differential.

A solid, all plane sections of which are ellipses or circles. See Conoid, n., 2 (a).

Want of solidity or substance; unsatisfactoriness; inability to satisfy desire; vacuity; hollowness; the emptiness of earthly glory.

James i. 4. With strength entire and free will armed. Milton. One entire and perfect chrysolite. Shak.

To beseech or supplicate successfully; to prevail upon by prayer or solicitation; to persuade. It were a fruitless attempt to appease a power whom no prayers could entreat. Rogers.

The act of entreating or beseeching; urgent prayer; earnest petition; pressing solicitation. Fair entreaty, and sweet blandishment. Spenser.

Of or pertaining to an eremite; hermitical; living in solitude. "An eremitical life in the woods." Fuller. "The eremitic instinct." Lowell.

A white waxy solid, C16H33.OH; -- called also cetylic alcohol. See Cetylic alcohol, under Cetylic.

m of great elasticity and extreme tenuity, supposed to pervade all space, the interior of solid bodies not excepted, and to be the medium of transmission of light and heat; hence often called luminiferous ether.

To convert from a liquid or solid state into vapor (usually) by the agency of heat; to dissipate in vapor or fumes.

act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass.

A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant; -- distinguished from an abstract. See Abstract, n., 4.

point, or which is presented toward a certain direction; one of the bounding planes of a solid; as, a cube has six faces.

Stuffed; filled solid; as, a farctate leaf, stem, or pericarp; -- opposed to tubular or hollow. [Obs.]

A black, greenish, or brownish mineral of the chrysolite group. It is a silicate of iron.