Word Meanings - POLYHEDRON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A body or solid contained by many sides or planes.

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• SOLIDARE
  A small piece of money. Shak.
• SIDESADDLE
  A saddle for women, in which the rider sits with both feet on one side of the animal mounted. Sidesaddle flower , a plant with hollow leaves and curiously shaped flowers; -- called also huntsman's cup. See Sarracenia.
• CONTAINMENT
  That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
• SOLIDUNGULA
  A tribe of ungulates which includes the horse, ass, and related species, constituting the family Equidæ.
• SOLIDIFY
  To make solid or compact. Every machine is a solidified mechanical theorem. H. Spencer.
• SOLIDUNGULATE
  See SOLIPED
• SOLIDATE
  To make solid or firm. Cowley.
• SOLIDLY
  In a solid manner; densely; compactly; firmly; truly.
• CONTAINANT
  A container.
• 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.
• CONTAINABLE
  Capable of being contained or comprised. Boyle.
• 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.
• CONTAINER
  One who, or that which, contains.
• 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.
• 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
• 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
• SELF-CONTAINED
  Having all the essential working parts connected by a bedplate or framework, or contained in a case, etc., so that mutual relations of the parts do not depend upon fastening outside of the machine itself. Self-contained steam engine.
• IRONSIDES
  A cuirassier or cuirassiers; also, hardy veteran soldiers; -- applied specifically to Cromwell's cavalry.
• 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.