11. United; without division; unanimous; as, the delegation is solid
for a candidate. [Polit. Cant. U.S.]
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.
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.
Repose you there; while I [return] to this hard house, More harder
than the stones whereof 't is raised.
Shak.
I hear his thundering voice resound, And trampling feet than shake
the solid ground.
Dryden.
Sol"id, n. 1. A substance that is held in a fixed form by cohesion
among its particles; a substance not fluid.
2. (Geom.) A magnitude which has length, breadth, and thickness; a part
of space bounded on all sides.
Solid of revolution. (Geom.) See Revolution, n., 5.
||Sol`i*da"go (?), 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.
Sol"i*dare (?), n. [LL. solidus. Cf. Sou.] A small piece of money.
[Obs.] Shak.
Sol`i*dar"i*ty (?), n. [F. solidarité, fr. solide. See Solid.] An
entire union or consolidation of interests and responsibilities;
fellowship; community.
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.
The solidarity . . . of Breton and Welsh poetry.