Word Meanings - STEAROPTENE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The more solid ingredient of certain volatile oils; -- contrasted with elæoptene.

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• SOLIDARE
  A small piece of money. Shak.
• SOLIDUNGULA
  A tribe of ungulates which includes the horse, ass, and related species, constituting the family Equidæ.
• VOLATILENESS; VOLATILITY
  Quality or state of being volatile; disposition to evaporate; changeableness; fickleness. Syn. -- See Levity.
• SOLIDIFY
  To become solid; to harden.
• SOLIDUNGULATE
  See SOLIPED
• SOLIDATE
  To make solid or firm. Cowley.
• SOLIDLY
  In a solid manner; densely; compactly; firmly; truly.
• CERTAINTY
  Clearness; freedom from ambiguity; lucidity. Of a certainty, certainly. (more info) 1. The quality, state, or condition, of being certain. The certainty of punishment is the truest security against crimes. Fisher Ames. 2. A fact or truth
• SOLIDISM
  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.
• SOLID
  A magnitude which has length, breadth, and thickness; a part of space bounded on all sides. Solid of revolution. See Revolution, n., 5. (more info) 1. A substance that is held in a fixed form by cohesion among its particles; a substance
• SOLIDNESS
  1. State or quality of being solid; firmness; compactness; solidity, as of material bodies. 2. Soundness; strength; truth; validity, as of arguments, reasons, principles, and the like.
• CERTAINNESS
  Certainty.
• SOLIDIST
  An advocate of, or believer in, solidism. Dunglison.
• SOLID-DRAWN
  Drawn out from a heated solid bar, as by a process of spiral rolling which first hollows the bar and then expands the cavity by forcing the bar over a pointed mandrel fixed in front of the rolls; - - said of a weldless tube.
• CERTAIN
  1. Certainty. Gower. 2. A certain number or quantity. Chaucer.
• SOLIDIFICATION
  Act of solidifying, or state of being solidified.
• SOLIDARY
  Having community of interests and responsibilities. Men are solidary, or copartners; and not isolated. M. Arnold.
• SOLIDUNGULAR
  Solipedous.
• CONTRASTIMULANT
  Counteracting the effects of stimulants; relating to a course of medical treatment based on a theory of contrastimulants. -- n.
• SOLIDARITY
  An entire union or consolidation of interests and responsibilities; fellowship; community. Solidarity , 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
• ASCERTAINMENT
  The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke.
• ASCERTAINABLE
  That may be ascertained. -- As`cer*tain"a*ble*ness, n. -- As`cer*tain"a*bly, adv.
• CONSOLIDATED
  Having a small surface in proportion to bulk, as in the cactus. Consolidated plants are evidently adapted and designed for very dry regions; in such only they are found. Gray. The Consolidated Fund, a British fund formed by consolidating (in 1787)
• CONSOLIDATION
  To organic cohesion of different circled in a flower; adnation. (more info) 1. The act or process of consolidating, making firm, or uniting; the state of being consolidated; solidification; combination. The consolidation of the marble and of the
• UNCERTAINTY
  1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange.
• CONTRAST
  To stand in opposition; to exhibit difference, unlikeness, or opposition of qualities. The joints which divide the sandstone contrast finely with the divisional planes which separate the basalt into pillars. Lyell.
• UNCERTAINLY
  In an uncertain manner.
• INSOLIDITY
  Want of solidity; weakness; as, the insolidity of an argument. Dr. H. More.
• CONSOLIDANT
  Serving to unite or consolidate; having the quality of consolidating or making firm.
• SURSOLID
  The fifth power of a number; as, a is the sursolid of a, or 32 that of 2. Hutton.