The time between daylight and candle light. [ Humorous ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. See Bolis. ] A kind of meteor; a bolis. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. consolidans, p. pr. of consolidare: cf. F. consolidant. ] Serving to unite or consolidate; having the quality of consolidating or making firm. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. consolidatus, p. pr. of consolidare to make firm; con- + solidare to make firm; solidus solid. See Solid, and cf. Consound. ] Formed into a solid mass; made firm; consolidated. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A gentleman [ should learn to ride ] while he is tender and the brawns and sinews of his thighs not fully consolidate. Elyot. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Consolidated p. pr. & vb. n. Consolidating ] 1. To make solid; to unite or press together into a compact mass; to harden or make dense and firm. [ 1913 Webster ]

He fixed and consolidated the earth. T. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To unite, as various particulars, into one mass or body; to bring together in close union; to combine; as, to consolidate the armies of the republic. [ 1913 Webster ]

Consolidating numbers into unity. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Surg.) To unite by means of applications, as the parts of a broken bone, or the lips of a wound. [ R. ]

Syn. -- To unite; combine; harden; compact; condense; compress. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To grow firm and hard; to unite and become solid; as, moist clay consolidates by drying. [ 1913 Webster ]

In hurts and ulcers of the head, dryness maketh them more apt to consolidate. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. & a. 1. Made solid, hard, or compact; united; joined; solidified. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Aggregate Fund . . . consisted of a great variety of taxes and surpluses of taxes and duties which were [ in 1715 ] consolidated. Rees. [ 1913 Webster ]

A mass of partially consolidated mud. Tyndall. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Having a small surface in proportion to bulk, as in the cactus. [ 1913 Webster ]

Consolidated plants are evidently adapted and designed for very dry regions; in such only they are found. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Consolidated Fund, a British fund formed by consolidating (in 1787) three public funds (the Aggregate Fund, the General Fund, and the South Sea Fund). In 1816, the larger part of the revenues of Great Britian and Ireland was assigned to what has been known as the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom, out of which are paid the interest of the national debt, the salaries of the civil list, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. consolidatio a confirming: cf. F. consolidation. ] 1. The act or process of consolidating, making firm, or uniting; the state of being consolidated; solidification; combination. [ 1913 Webster ]

The consolidation of the marble and of the stone did not fall out at random. Woodward. [ 1913 Webster ]

The consolidation of the great European monarchies. Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) To organic cohesion of different circled in a flower; adnation. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) The combination of several actions into one. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. consolidatif. ] Tending or having power to consolidate; healing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a natural family of oceanic tunicates.
Syn. -- family Doliolidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A natural family of Old World shorebirds: pratincoles and coursers.
Syn. -- family Glareolidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Glycol + anhydride. ] (Chem.) A white amorphous powder, C4H4O, obtained by heating and dehydrating glycolic acid. [ Written also glycollide. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a day on which half of the day is free from work or duty; a holiday of one half of a day. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Obs. ] See Halidom. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Holy + day. ] 1. A consecrated day; religious anniversary; a day set apart in honor of some person, or in commemoration of some event. See Holyday. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A day of exemption from labor; a day of amusement and gayety; a festival day. [ 1913 Webster ]

And young and old come forth to play
On a sunshine holiday. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) A day fixed by law for suspension of business; a legal holiday. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In the United States legal holidays, so called, are determined by law, commonly by the statutes of the several States. The holidays most generally observed are: the 22d day of February (Washington's birthday), the 30th day of May (Memorial day), the 4th day of July (Independence day), the 25th day of December (Christmas day). In most of the States the 1st day of January is a holiday. When any of these days falls on Sunday, usually the Monday following is observed as the holiday. In many of the States a day in the spring (as Good Friday, or the first Thursday in April), and a day in the fall (as the last Thursday in November) are now regularly appointed by Executive proclamation to be observed, the former as a day of fasting and prayer, the latter as a day of thanksgiving and are kept as holidays. In England, the days of the greater church feasts (designated in the calendar by a red letter, and commonly called red-letter days) are observed as general holidays. Bank holidays are those on which, by act of Parliament, banks may suspend business. Although Sunday is a holiday in the sense of a day when business is legally suspended, it is not usually included in the general term, the phrase “Sundays and holidays” being more common. [ 1913 Webster ]

The holidays, any fixed or usual period for relaxation or festivity; especially, Christmas and New Year's day with the intervening time. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Of or pertaining to a festival; cheerful; joyous; gay. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Occurring rarely; adapted for a special occasion. [ 1913 Webster ]

Courage is but a holiday kind of virtue, to be seldom exercised. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. in- not + solidity: cf. F. insolidité. ] Lack of solidity; weakness; as, the insolidity of an argument. [ R. ] Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. olidus, fr. olere to smell. ] Having a strong, disagreeable smell; fetid. [ Obs. ] Boyle. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A natural family of Old World orioles.
Syn. -- family Oriolidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Consolidated beforehand. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To consolidate anew or again. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or process of reconsolidating; the state of being reconsolidated. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Partially solid. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. solidus, probably akin to sollus whole, entire, Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;: cf. F. solide. Cf. Consolidate, Soda, Solder, Soldier, Solemn. ] 1. Having the constituent parts so compact, or so firmly adhering, as to resist the impression or penetration of other bodies; having a fixed form; hard; firm; compact; -- opposed to fluid and liquid or to plastic, like clay, or to incompact, like sand. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not hollow; full of matter; as, a solid globe or cone, as distinguished from a hollow one; not spongy; dense; hence, sometimes, heavy. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Arith.) Having all the geometrical dimensions; cubic; as, a solid foot contains 1, 728 solid inches. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In this sense, cubics now generally used. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Firm; compact; strong; stable; unyielding; as, a solid pier; a solid pile; a solid wall. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Applied to a compound word whose parts are closely united and form an unbroken word; -- opposed to hyphened. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Fig.: Worthy of credit, trust, or esteem; substantial, as opposed to frivolous or fallacious; weighty; firm; strong; valid; just; genuine. [ 1913 Webster ]

The solid purpose of a sincere and virtuous answer. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

These, wanting wit, affect gravity, and go by the name of solid men. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

The genius of the Italians wrought by solid toil what the myth-making imagination of the Germans had projected in a poem. J. A. Symonds. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. Sound; not weakly; as, a solid constitution of body. I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. (Bot.) Of a fleshy, uniform, undivided substance, as a bulb or root; not spongy or hollow within, as a stem. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. (Metaph.) Impenetrable; resisting or excluding any other material particle or atom from any given portion of space; -- applied to the supposed ultimate particles of matter. [ 1913 Webster ]

10. (Print.) Not having the lines separated by leads; not open. [ 1913 Webster ]

11. United; without division; unanimous; as, the delegation is solid for a candidate. [ Polit. Cant. U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Solid angle. (Geom.) See under Angle. --
Solid color, an even color; one not shaded or variegated. --
Solid green. See Emerald green (a), under Green. --
Solid measure (Arith.), a measure for volumes, in which the units are each a cube of fixed linear magnitude, as a cubic foot, yard, or the like; thus, a foot, in solid measure, or a solid foot, contains 1, 728 solid inches. --
Solid newel (Arch.), a newel into which the ends of winding stairs are built, in distinction from a hollow newel. See under Hollow, a. --
Solid problem (Geom.), a problem which can be construed geometrically, only by the intersection of a circle and a conic section or of two conic sections. Hutton. --
Solid square (Mil.), a square body or troops in which the ranks and files are equal. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Hard; firm; compact; strong; substantial; stable; sound; real; valid; true; just; weighty; profound; grave; important. -- Solid, Hard. These words both relate to the internal constitution of bodies; but hardnotes a more impenetrable nature or a firmer adherence of the component parts than solid. Hard is opposed to soft, and solid to fluid, liquid, open, or hollow. Wood is usually solid; but some kinds of wood are hard, and others are soft. [ 1913 Webster ]

Repose you there; while I [ return ] to this hard house,
More harder than the stones whereof 't is raised. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

I hear his thundering voice resound,
And trampling feet than shake the solid ground. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A substance that is held in a fixed form by cohesion among its particles; a substance not fluid. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Geom.) A magnitude which has length, breadth, and thickness; a part of space bounded on all sides. [ 1913 Webster ]

Solid of revolution. (Geom.) See Revolution, n., 5. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. L. solidare to strengthen, unite; -- so called in allusion to its reputed healing qualities. ] (Bot.) A genus of yellow-flowered composite perennial herbs; golden-rod. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. solidus. Cf. Sou. ] A small piece of money. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. solidarité, fr. solide. See Solid. ] An entire union or consolidation of interests and responsibilities; fellowship; community. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

The solidarity . . . of Breton and Welsh poetry. M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having community of interests and responsibilities. [ 1913 Webster ]

Men are solidary, or copartners; and not isolated. M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. solidatus, p. p. of solidare. See Solder. ] To make solid or firm. [ Obs. ] Cowley. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 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. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Capable of being solidified. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. solidification. ] Act of solidifying, or state of being solidified. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Solidified p. pr. & vb. n. Solidifying ] [ Solid + -fy: cf. F. solidifier. ] To make solid or compact. [ 1913 Webster ]

Every machine is a solidified mechanical theorem. H. Spencer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To become solid; to harden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) An advocate of, or believer in, solidism. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. soliditas: cf. F. solidité. ] 1. 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; massiveness. [ 1913 Webster ]

That which hinders the approach of two bodies when they are moving one toward another, I call solidity. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Moral firmness; soundness; strength; validity; truth; certainty; -- as opposed to weakness or fallaciousness; as, the solidity of arguments or reasoning; the solidity of principles, triuths, or opinions. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Geom.) The solid contents of a body; volume; amount of inclosed space. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Firmness; solidness; hardness; density; compactness; strength; soundness; validity; certainty. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a solid manner; densely; compactly; firmly; truly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. State or quality of being solid; firmness; compactness; solidity, as of material bodies. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Soundness; strength; truth; validity, as of arguments, reasons, principles, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., from L. solidus solid + ungula a hoof. ] (Zool.) A tribe of ungulates which includes the horse, ass, and related species, constituting the family Equidae. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Solipedous. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Solid + ungulate. ] (Zool.) Same as Soliped. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Solipedous. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. stolidus. ] Hopelessly insensible or stupid; not easily aroused or excited; dull; impassive; foolish. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. stoliditas. ] The state or quality of being stolid; dullness of intellect; obtuseness; stupidity. [ 1913 Webster ]

Indocile, intractable fools, whose stolidity can baffle all arguments, and be proof against demonstration itself. Bentley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Stolidity. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. sursolide. See Sur-, and Solid. ] (Math.) The fifth power of a number; as, a&unr_; is the sursolid of a, or 32 that of 2. [ R. ] Hutton. [ 1913 Webster ]