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A genus of yellow-flowered composite perennial herbs; golden- rod.

A small piece of money. [Obs.] Shak.

An entire union or consolidation of interests and responsibilities; fellowship; community. Solidarity [a word which we owe to the French Communists], signifies a fellowship in gain and loss, in honor and dishonor, in victory and defeat, a being, so to speak, all in the same boat. Trench. The solidarity . . . of Breton…

Having community of interests and responsibilities. Men are solidary, or copartners; and not isolated. M. Arnold.

To make solid or firm. [Obs.] Cowley.

Capable of being solidified.

Act of solidifying, or state of being solidified.

To make solid or compact. Every machine is a solidified mechanical theorem. H. Spencer.

The doctrine that refers all diseases to morbid changes of the solid parts of the body. It rests on the view that the solids alone are endowed with vital properties, and can receive the impression of agents tending to produce disease.

An advocate of, or believer in, solidism. Dunglison.

The state or quality of being solid; density; consistency, -- opposed to fluidity; compactness; fullness of matter, -- opposed to openness or hollowness; strength; soundness, -- opposed to weakness or instability; the primary quality or affection of matter by which its particles exclude or resist all others; hardness;…

In a solid manner; densely; compactly; firmly; truly.

State or quality of being solid; firmness; compactness; solidity, as of material bodies.

A tribe of ungulates which includes the horse, ass, and related species, constituting the family Equidæ.

Solipedous.

Same as Soliped.

Solipedous.

Dirty through neglect; foul; filthy; extremely dirty. Uncomed his locks, and squalid his attrie. Dryden. Those squalid dens, which are the reproach of large capitals. Macaulay.

The quality or state of being squalid; foulness; filthiness.

In a squalid manner.