Sol"ver (slv"r), n. One who, or that which, solves.
Solv"i*ble (-*b'l), a. See Solvable.
Sol"y (sl"), adv. Solely. [Obs.] Spenser.
||So"ma (s"m), n. [NL., fr. Gr. sw^ma, sw`matos, the body.] (Anat.) The
||whole axial portion of an animal, including the head, neck, trunk,
||and tail. B. G. Wilder.
{ So"maj" (s*mäj"), Sa*maj" (s*mäj") }, n. A society; a congregation, a
worshiping assembly, or church, esp. of the Brahmo- somaj. [India]
{ So*ma"li (s*mä"l), So*mal" (s*mäl") }, n. (Ethnol.) A Hamitic people
of East Central Africa.
So*mat"ic (s*mt"k), a. [Gr. swmatiko`s, fr. sw^ma the body.] 1. Of or
pertaining to the body as a whole; corporeal; as, somatic death;
somatic changes.
2. Of or pertaining to the wall of the body; somatopleuric; parietal;
as, the somatic stalk of the yolk sac of an embryo.
Somatic death. See the Note under Death, n., 1.
So*mat"ic*al (?), a. Somatic.
So*mat"ics (?), n. The science which treats of the general properties
of matter; somatology.
So"ma*tist (?), n. One who admits the existence of material beings
only; a materialist. Glanvill.
So"ma*to*cyst (?), n. [Gr. sw^ma, sw`matos, body + ky`stis a bladder.]
(Zoöl.) A cavity in the primary nectocalyx of certain Siphonophora. See
Illust. under Nectocalyx.
So`ma*tol"o*gy (?), n. [Gr. sw^ma, sw`matos, body + -logy.] 1. The
doctrine or the science of the general properties of material
substances; somatics.