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To change from a fluid to a solid state by cold; to freeze.

The act or process of passing, or causing to pass, from a fluid to a solid state, as by the abstraction of heat; the act or process of freezing.

A solid formed by the revolution of a conic section about its axis; as, a parabolic conoid, elliptic conoid, etc.; -- more commonly called paraboloid, ellipsoid, etc.

ogether, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity. Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore itself to the natural consistence. Bacon. We are as water, weak, and of no consistence. Jer. Taylor. The same form, substance, and consistency. T. Burned.…

Possessing firmness or fixedness; firm; hard; solid. The humoral and consistent parts of the body. Harvey.

A consolidated annuity (see Consols); -- chiefly in combination or attributively.

Firm; solid; fixed; immovable; -- opposed to fluid. [Obs.] If . . . you mix them, you may turn these two fluid liquors into a constant body. Boyle.

Area or quantity of space or matter contained within certain limits; as, solid contents; superficial contents. The geometrical content, figure, and situation of all the lands of a kingdom. Graunt. Table of contents, or Contents, a table or list of topics in a book, showing their order and the place where they may be fo…

connection of sentences or subjects; a connective; a conjunction. Continuatives . . . consolidate sentences into one continuous whole. Harris.

er; conversely. Everything that acts upon the fluids must, at the same time, act upon the solids, and contrariwise. Arbuthnot.

eefs, often of great extent, made up chiefly of fragments of corals, coral sands, and the solid limestone resulting from their consolidation. They are classed as fringing reefs, when they border the land; barrier reefs, when separated from the shore by a broad belt of water; atolls, when they constitute separate island…

A solid measure, equivalent to 128 cubic feet; a pile of wood, or other coarse material, eight feet long, four feet high, and four feet broad; -- originally measured with a cord or line.

teel spiral for drawing corks from bottles. Corkscrew starts, a spiral staircase around a solid newel.

A solid bulb-shaped root, as of the crocus. See Bulb.

Solid; gross; opaque. [Obs.] Holland.

One of the Gorgoniacea; -- so called because the fleshy part surrounds a solid axis, like a bark.

metallic lodes. It consist in sinking small pits through the superficial deposits to the solid rock, and then driving from one pit to another across the direction of the vein, in such manner as to cross all the veins between the two pits.

A semisolid mass or clot, especially that formed in coagulation of the blood.

phenol. They are obtained from coal tar and wood tar, and are colorless, oily liquids or solids.

To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind; -- said of a horse.