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To extend; -- applied to a line, surface, or solid; as, to produce a side of a triangle.

The basal portion, or two proximal and more or less consolidated segments, of an appendage of a crustacean.

ence, variously made, but often a compound of flour or meal, with milk and eggs, etc. And solid pudding against empty praise. Pope.

A tool, usually of steel, variously shaped at one end for different uses, and either solid, for stamping or for perforating holes in metallic plates and other substances, or hollow and sharpedged, for cutting out blanks, as for buttons, steel pens, jewelry, and the like; a die.

the quality of being affectedly pure or nice, especially in the choice of language; over-solicitude as to purity. "His political purism." De Quincey. The English language, however, . . . had even already become too thoroughly and essentially a mixed tongue for his doctrine of purism to be admitted to the letter. Craik…

To importune; to press with solicitation; to tease. To push down, to overthrow by pushing or impulse.

hyemale) which flowers in early summer. Its slender naked rootstock produces each year a solid corm, filled with exceedingly glutinous matter, which sends up later a single large oval evergreen plaited leaf. Called also Adam-and-Eve.

A solid body standing on a triangular, square, or polygonal base, and terminating in a point at the top; especially, a structure or edifice of this shape.

A solid resembling a pyramid; -- called also pyramoid. Barlow.

A feebly basic solid, C4H4N2, obtained by distilling piperazine with zinc dust, and in other ways. Also, by extension, any of various derivatives of the same.

An instrument used for measuring the expansion of solid bodies by heat.

Square; even; balanced; equal; exact. [Archaic] " A quadrate, solid, wise man." Howell.

To shake, vibrate, or quiver, either from not being solid, as soft, wet land, or from violent convulsion of any kind; as, the earth quakes; the mountains quake. " Over quaking bogs." Macaulay.

Request; desire; solicitation. Gad not abroad at every quest and call Of an untrained hope or passion. Herbert.

Originally, a solid exterior angle, as of a building; now, commonly, one of the selected pieces of material by which the corner is marked.

radium A, radium B, radium C, etc. (The emanation is a heavy gas, the later products are solids.) These products are regarded as unstable elements, each with an atomic weight a little lower than its predecessor. It is possible that lead is the stable end product. At the same time the light gas helium is formed; it pro…

ng. A ditch . . . was filled with some sound materials, and rammed to make the foundation solid. Arbuthnot.

nything force; as, a rammer for driving stones or piles, or for beating the earth to more solidity.

Thinly scattered; dispersed. Those rare and solitary, three in flocks. Milton.

Sudden check; unexpected repulse; defeat; refusal; repellence; rejection of solicitation.