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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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254 words match “SOLA”

DISCONSOLATED a.

Disconsolate. [Obs.] A poor, disconsolated, drooping creature. Sterne.

DISCONSOLATION n.

Dejection; grief. [R.] Bp. Hall.

GLOSSOLALIA; GLOSSOLALY n.

The gift of tongues. Farrar.

INCONSOLABLE a.

Not consolable; incapable of being consoled; grieved beyond susceptibility of comfort; disconsolate. Dryden. With inconsolable distress she griev'd, And from her cheek the rose of beauty fied. Falconer. -- In`con*sol"a*ble*ness, n. -- In`con*sol"a*bly, adv.

To dry in, or to expose to, the sun's rays; to ripen or prepare by such exposure. Johnson.

INSOLATION n. 3 definitions

The act or process to exposing to the rays of the sun fro the purpose of drying or maturing, as fruits, drugs, etc., or of rendering acid, as vinegar.

Capable of being isolated, or of being obtained in a pure state; as, gold is isolable.

ISOLATE v. 3 definitions

ched situation; to place by itself or alone; to insulate; to separate from others. Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient wisdom delighted to convey its precepts. Bp. Warburton.

Placed or standing alone; detached; separated from others. Isolated point of a curve. (Geom.) See Acnode.

ISOLATEDLY adv.

In an isolated manner.

The act of isolating, or the state of being isolated; insulation; separation; loneliness. Milman.

One who, or that which, isolates.

g from the united action, or pertaining to the mutual relations, of the sun and moon. Lunisolar precession (Astron.), that portion of the annual precession of the equinoxes which depends on the joint action of the sun and moon. -- Lunisolar year, a period of time, at the end of which, in the Julian calendar, the new a…

An instrument of the ancients for finding two mean proportionals between two given lines, required in solving the problem of the duplication of the cube. Brande & C.

NASOLACHRYMAL a.

Connected with the lachrymal apparatus and the nose; as, the nasolachrymal, or lachrymal duct.

To console or comfort again. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

A genus of plants including the glasswort. See Glasswort.

Alone; -- chiefly used in stage directions, and the like.

Being under the sun; hence, terrestrial; earthly; mundane. [R.]

Above the sun. Emerson.