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To injure by too long exposure to the light of the sun in the camera; to burn.

Solar. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Solace. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Anything which alleviates or compensates for suffering or loss; a compensation; esp., an additional allowance, as for injured feelings.

Opposite to the sun; -- said of the point in the heavens 180º distant from the sun.

Capable of receiving consolation.

To console; to comfort. [Obs.] Shak.

omfort; that which consoles or comforts the spirit. Against such cruelties With inward consolations recompensed. Milton. Are the consolations of God small with thee Job xv. 11.

A collection of maritime laws of disputed origin, supposed to have been first published at Barcelona early in the 14th century. It has formed the basis of most of the subsequent collections of maritime laws. Kent. Bouvier.

One who consoles or comforts. Johnson.

of tyrants is a noble and awful act of justice; and it has with truth been said to be consolatory to the human mind. Burke.

Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy; as, a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house. I will make Jerusalem . . . a den of dragons, and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant. Jer. ix. 11. And the silvery marish flowers that throng The desolat…

In a desolate manner.

The state of being desolate.

One who, or that which, desolates or lays waste. Mede.

The act of desolating or laying waste; destruction of inhabitants; depopulation. Unto the end of the war desolations are determined. Dan. ix. 26.

Same as Desolater. Byron.

Causing desolation. [R.] Bp. Hall.

The state of being disconsolate. [Obs.] Barrow.

Disconsolateness. [Obs.] Barrow.