Solve (v. t.) To explain; to resolve; to unfold; to clear up (what is obscure or difficult to be understood); to work out to a result or conclusion; as, to solve a doubt; to solve difficulties; to solve a problem.
Solve (n.) A solution; an explanation.
Solvency (n.) The quality or state of being solvent.
Solvend (n.) A substance to be dissolved.
Solvent (a.) Having the power of dissolving; dissolving; as, a solvent fluid.
Solvent (a.) Able or sufficient to pay all just debts; as, a solvent merchant; the estate is solvent.
Solvent (n.) A substance (usually liquid) suitable for, or employed in, solution, or in dissolving something; as, water is the appropriate solvent of most salts, alcohol of resins, ether of fats, and mercury or acids of metals, etc.
Solvent (n.) That which resolves; as, a solvent of mystery.
Solver (n.) One who, or that which, solves.
Solvible (a.) See Solvable.
Soly (adv.) Solely.
Soma (n.) The whole axial portion of an animal, including the head, neck, trunk, and tail.
Somaj (n.) Alt. of Samaj
Samaj (n.) A society; a congregation; a worshiping assembly, or church, esp. of the Brahmo-somaj.
Somali (n.) Alt. of Somal
Somal (n.) A Hamitic people of East Central Africa.
Somatic (a.) Of or pertaining to the body as a whole; corporeal; as, somatic death; somatic changes.
Somatic (a.) Of or pertaining to the wall of the body; somatopleuric; parietal; as, the somatic stalk of the yolk sac of an embryo.
Somatical (a.) Somatic.
Somatics (n.) The science which treats of the general properties of matter; somatology.
Somatist (n.) One who admits the existence of material beings only; a materialist.
Somatocyst (n.) A cavity in the primary nectocalyx of certain Siphonophora. See Illust. under Nectocalyx.
Somatology (n.) The doctrine or the science of the general properties of material substances; somatics.
Somatology (n.) A treatise on the human body; anatomy.
Somatome (n.) See Somite.
Somatopleure (n.) The outer, or parietal, one of the two lamellae into which the vertebrate blastoderm divides on either side of the notochord, and from which the walls of the body and the amnion are developed. See Splanchnopleure.
Somatopleuric (a.) Of or pertaining to the somatopleure.
Somatotropism (n.) A directive influence exercised by a mass of matter upon growing organs.
Somber (a.) Alt. of Sombre
Sombre (a.) Dull; dusky; somewhat dark; gloomy; as, a somber forest; a somber house.
Sombre (a.) Melancholy; sad; grave; depressing; as, a somber person; somber reflections.
Somber (v. t.) Alt. of Sombre
Sombre (v. t.) To make somber, or dark; to make shady.
Somber (n.) Alt. of Sombre
Sombre (n.) Gloom; obscurity; duskiness; somberness.
Somberly (adv.) Alt. of Sombrely
Sombrely (adv.) In a somber manner; sombrously; gloomily; despondingly.
Somberness (n.) Alt. of Sombreness
Sombreness (n.) The quality or state of being somber; gloominess.
Sombrero (n.) A kind of broad-brimmed hat, worn in Spain and in Spanish America.
Sombrous (a.) Gloomy; somber.
-some () A combining form or suffix from Gr. sw^ma (gen. sw`matos) the body; as in merosome, a body segment; cephalosome, etc.
-some (a.) An adjective suffix having primarily the sense of like or same, and indicating a considerable degree of the thing or quality denoted in the first part of the compound; as in mettlesome, full of mettle or spirit; gladsome, full of gladness; winsome, blithesome, etc.
Some (a.) Consisting of a greater or less portion or sum; composed of a quantity or number which is not stated; -- used to express an indefinite quantity or number; as, some wine; some water; some persons. Used also pronominally; as, I have some.
Some (a.) A certain; one; -- indicating a person, thing, event, etc., as not known individually, or designated more specifically; as, some man, that is, some one man.
Some (a.) Not much; a little; moderate; as, the censure was to some extent just.
Some (a.) About; near; more or less; -- used commonly with numerals, but formerly also with a singular substantive of time or distance; as, a village of some eighty houses; some two or three persons; some hour hence.
Some (a.) Considerable in number or quality.
Some (a.) Certain; those of one part or portion; -- in distinct from other or others; as, some men believe one thing, and others another.
Some (a.) A part; a portion; -- used pronominally, and followed sometimes by of; as, some of our provisions.
Somebody (n.) A person unknown or uncertain; a person indeterminate; some person.
Somebody (n.) A person of consideration or importance.
Somedeal (adv.) In some degree; somewhat.
Somehow (adv.) In one way or another; in some way not yet known or designated; by some means; as, the thing must be done somehow; he lives somehow.
Somersault (n.) Alt. of Somerset
Somerset (n.) A leap in which a person turns his heels over his head and lights upon his feet; a turning end over end.
Something (n.) Anything unknown, undetermined, or not specifically designated; a certain indefinite thing; an indeterminate or unknown event; an unspecified task, work, or thing.
Something (n.) A part; a portion, more or less; an indefinite quantity or degree; a little.
Something (n.) A person or thing importance.
Something (adv.) In some degree; somewhat; to some extent; at some distance.
Sometime (adv.) At a past time indefinitely referred to; once; formerly.
Sometime (adv.) At a time undefined; once in a while; now and then; sometimes.
Sometime (adv.) At one time or other hereafter; as, I will do it sometime.
Sometime (a.) Having been formerly; former; late; whilom.
Sometimes (adv.) Formerly; sometime.
Sometimes (adv.) At times; at intervals; now and then;occasionally.
Sometimes (a.) Former; sometime.
Somewhat (n.) More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something.
Somewhat (n.) A person or thing of importance; a somebody.
Somewhat (adv.) In some degree or measure; a little.
Somewhen (adv.) At some indefinite time.
Somewhere (adv.) In some place unknown or not specified; in one place or another.
Somewhile (adv.) Once; for a time.
Somewhither (adv.) To some indeterminate place; to some place or other.
Somite (n.) One of the actual or ideal serial segments of which an animal, esp. an articulate or vertebrate, is is composed; somatome; metamere.
Sommeil (n.) Slumber; sleep.
Sommerset (n.) See Somersault.
Somnambular (a.) Of or pertaining to somnambulism; somnambulistic.
Somnambulate (v. i. & t.) To walk when /sleep.
Somnambulation (n.) The act of walking in sleep.
Somnambulator (n.) A somnambulist.
Somnambule (n.) A somnambulist.
Somnambulic (a.) Somnambulistic.
Somnambulism (n.) A condition of the nervous system in which an individual during sleep performs actions approppriate to the waking state; a state of sleep in which some of the senses and voluntary powers are partially awake; noctambulism.
Somnambulist (n.) A person who is subject to somnambulism; one who walks in his sleep; a sleepwalker; a noctambulist.
Somnambulistic (a.) Of or pertaining to a somnambulist or somnambulism; affected by somnambulism; appropriate to the state of a somnambulist.
Somne (v. t.) To summon.
Somner (n.) A summoner; esp., one who summons to an ecclesiastical court.
Somnial (a.) Of or pertaining to sleep or dreams.
Somniative (a.) Somnial; somniatory.
Somniatory (a.) Pertaining to sleep or dreams; somnial.
Somniculous (a.) Inclined to sleep; drowsy; sleepy.
Somniferous (a.) Causing or inducing sleep; soporific; dormitive; as, a somniferous potion.
Somnific (a.) Causing sleep; somniferous.
Somnifugous (a.) Driving away sleep.
Somniloquence (n.) The act of talking in one's sleep; somniloquism.
Somniloquism (n.) The act or habit of talking in one's sleep; somniloquy.
Somniloquist (n.) One who talks in his sleep.
Somniloquous (a.) Apt to talk in sleep.
Somniloquy (n.) A talking in sleep; the talking of one in a state of somnipathy.