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Quality or state of being squalid.

Hopelessly insensible or stupid; not easily aroused or excited; dull; impassive; foolish.

The state or quality of being stolid; dullness of intellect; obtuseness; stupidity. Indocile, intractable fools, whose stolidity can baffle all arguments, and be proof against demonstration itself. Bentley.

Same as Stolidity.

Strongyloid.

The fifth power of a number; as, a is the sursolid of a, or 32 that of 2. [R.] Hutton.

Any one of numerous species of marine annelids of the family Syllidæ.

A cutaneous eruption due to syphilis.

Any species of Terebratula or allied genera. Used also adjectively.

Any species of sponge of the division Tetractinellida. Also used adjectively.

A division of Spongiæ in which the spicules are siliceous and have four branches diverging at right angles. Called also Tetractinellinæ.

Any one of a tribe of beetles (Trachelides) which have the head supported on a pedicel. The oil beetles and the Cantharides are examples.

One who studies, or is versed in, the nature and habits of humming birds, or the Trochilidæ. Gould.

A liquid hydrocarbon obtained by the dry distillation of tropine with quicklime. It is regarded as being homologous with dipropargyl.

Having teeth traversed by canals; -- said of certain edentates.

Strong; powerful; efficient. [Obs.] "Perhaps more valid arms . . . may serve to better us." Milton.

To confirm; to render valid; to give legal force to. The chamber of deputies . . . refusing to validate at once the election of an official candidate. London Spectator.

The act of giving validity. [R.] Knowles.

The quality or state of being valid; strength; force; especially, power to convince; justness; soundness; as, the validity of an argument or proof; the validity of an objection.

In a valid manner; so as to be valid.