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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…

e 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.

ance which a body meets with from the surface on which it moves. It may be resistance to sliding motion, or to rolling motion.

Pertaining to the family Fringillidæ; characteristic of finches; sparrowlike.

Not firm or solid; soft; unstable. Bacon.

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

To make null; to nullifly; to render invalid or of no effect; as, to frustrate a conveyance or deed.

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.

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

, 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.

Pomp, show, or festivity. Macaulay. Gala day, a day of mirth and festivity; a holiday.

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

r on board a galley. "To toil like a galley slave." Macaulay.-- Galley slice (Print.), a sliding false bottom to a large galley. Knight.

wading birds, having long, webless toes, and a frontal shield, belonging to the family Rallidae. They are remarkable for running rapidly over marshes and on floating plants. The purple gallinule of America is Ionornis Martinica, that of the Old World is Porphyrio porphyrio. The common European gallinule (Gallinula chlo…

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

side. The group is regarded as an ancestral or synthetic one, related to rotifers and annelids.

A form of annelid larva having cilia on the ventral side.