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amongst the Romans.” See the Arabian Trudgman in Bed- 
well’s Mohamm. Impost. 1615. p. 103. See also Sul¬ 
tan.] The emperor of the Turks.—They at the soldan's 
chair defy’d the best. Milton. 
SO'LDANEL, s. [soldanella, Latin.] A plant. Miller. 
SOLDANELLA [a soldo, nummo. So named from the 
roundngss of the leaves, like a piece of money], in Botany, 
a genus of the class pentandria, order monogynia, natural 
order of precise, lysimachiee (Juss.) —Generic Character. 
Calyx: perianth five-parted, straight, permanent: segments 
lanceolate. Corolla one-petalled, bell-shaped, widening 
gradually, straight: mouth torn into many clefts, acute. 
Stamina: filaments-five, awl-shaped: anthers simple, sa¬ 
gittate. Pistil: germ roundish. Style filiform, length of 
the corolla, permanent. Stigma simple. Pericarp: capsule 
oblong, round obliquely striated, one-celled, opening by a 
many-toothed top. Seeds numerous, acuminate, very small. 
Receptacle columnar, free.— Essential Character. Corolla 
bell-shaped, lacero-multifid. Capsule one-celled many¬ 
toothed at the top. 
Soldanella Alpina, or Alpine soldanella.—Root perennial, 
fibrous. Leaves almost kidney-shaped, about three quarters 
of an inch over each way, of a dark green colour, on long 
foot stalks. Among these arises a naked flower-stalk or 
scape, about four inches long, sustaining at the top two 
small open bell-shaped flowers, with the brim cut into many 
fine segments like a fringe: the most frequent colour is blue, 
but it is sometimes snow white. It flowers in April, and 
the seeds ripen in July.—Native of the Alps of Switzerland, 
Austria, Bohemia, Dauphine and Piedmont. 
Propagation and Culture. —Part the roots in September. 
If removed in spring, the plants never flower strong ; and if 
the season should prove dry, they will decay, unless they 
are constantly supplied with water. The seeds seldom grow 
unless they are sowed soon after they are ripe; for which 
reason those sent from abroad seldom succeed. 
This plant thrives best in a strong cool loam, and must 
have a shady situation. 
SOLDAIJ, or Dzialdowo, a town of East Prussia, on 
a river of the same name; 100 miles south-by-west of Ko- 
nigsberg. Population 1700. Lat. 53. 13. N. long. 20. 
11. E. 
To SO'LDER, v. a. [souder, Fr., soldare, Ital. solidare, 
Lat. See Sooer.] To unite or fasten with any kind of 
metallic cement.—A concave sphere of gold, filled with 
water, and soldered up, has, upon pressing the sphere with 
great force, let the water squeeze through it, and stand all 
over its outside in multitudes of small drops like dew, with¬ 
out bursting or craking the body of the gold. Newton.-— 
To mend; to uuite any thing broken. 
Thou visible god, 
That solderest close impossibilities, 
And mak’st them kiss! Sha/cspeare. 
SO'LDER, s. Metallic cement. A metallic body 
that will melt with less heat than the body to be soldered. 
Goldsmiths say, the coarsest stuff 
Will serve for solder well enough. Swift. 
SO'LDERER, s. One that solders or mends. 
SO'LDIER, s. [soldat, Fr., from solidarius, low Latin; 
of solidus, a piece of money, the pay of a soldier, as Dr. 
Johnson has observed; but our word seems to be imme¬ 
diately from the old Fr- soldoier, soudoyer , sodier. See 
Lacombe. Sowdyowre is also our old word in the Prompt. 
Parv. and rendered “ stipendiarius;” and we retain it in the 
vulgar pronunciation, sojer. We had formerly another 
term for soldier from the Ital. soldato, viz. soldado : 
“ Those, that are soldadoes in thy state, 
“ Do beare the badge of base, effeminate, 
“ Ev’n on their plumie crests.” Marston. 
So the German soldat, (as well as the French,) from sold, 
pay; solden, to make payment of wages; solidare, low 
Lat. the same.] A fighting man; a warrior. Originally 
one who served for pay.—Your sister is the better soldier. 
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Sha/cspeare. —It is generally used of the common men, as 
distinct from the commanders.—It were meet that any one* 
before he came to be a captain, should have been a soldier. 
Spenser. 
SOLDIER’S GUT, a cove on the north-east coast of 
the island of St. Christopher. 
SOLDIER’S RIVER, a river of North America, which 
flows into the Missouri; 689 miles above the Mississippi. 
It is about 40 yards wide at its mouth. 
SO'LDIERESS, s. A female warrior. 
Honour’d Hippolita, 
Most dreaded Amazonian;— Soldieress, 
That equally canst poise sternness with pity. 
Beaum. and FI. 
SO'LDIERLIKE, or So'ldierly, ad/. Martial; war¬ 
like; military; becoming a soldier.—Although at the first 
they had fought with beastly fury rather than any soldierly 
discipline, practice had now made them comparable to the 
best* Sidney. 
SO'LDIERSHIP, s. Military character; martial quali¬ 
ties ; behaviour becoming a soldier; martial skill. 
By sea you throw away 
The absolute soldiership you have by land. 
Distract your army, which doth most consist 
Of war-mark’d footmen. Shakspeare. 
SO'LDIERY, s. Body of military men; soldiers collec¬ 
tively. 
The Memphian soldiery, 
That swell’d the Erythrean wave, when wall’d, 
The unfroze waters marvellously stood. Philips. 
Soldiership; military service.—Offering him, if he would 
exercise his courage in soldiery, he would commit some 
charge unto him under his lieutenant Philanax. Sidney. 
SOLDIN, a town of the Prussian states, formerly the 
capital or the New Mark of Brandenburg. It stands in a 
low flat district, surrounded by a number of small lakes, is 
fortified, contains 3200 inhabitants, and has manufactures 
of woollens, leather, and some small articles; 70 miles east- 
north-east of Berlin. 
SOLDINA, a river of the New Kingdom of Granada, in 
the province of Punches, which enters the river Magdalena. 
SOLDURII, a kind of military clients, or retainers 
to the great men in Gaul, particularly in Aquitania, men¬ 
tioned by Csesar. 
SOLE, s. [solum, Lat.] The bottom of the foot.—I will 
only be bold with Benedict for his company; for from the 
crown of his head to the sole of his foot he is all mirth. 
Shakspeare. —The foot. 
To redeem thy woeful parent’s head 
From tyrant’s rage and ever-dying dread, 
Hast wander’d through the world now long a day, 
Yet ceasest not thy weary soles to lead. Spenser # 
[Solca, Lat. fol, Sax. sulja, Goth.] The bottom of the 
shoe. 
Nay, gentle Romeo, we must have you dance. 
—Not I, believe me: you have dancing shoes, 
With nimble soles. Shakspeare. 
The part of any thing that touches the ground.—The 
strike-block is a plane shorter than the jointer, having its 
sole made exactly flat and straight, and is used for the 
shooting- of a short joint. Moron. —A kind of sea-fish, 
[sometimes written soal, by way of distinction, which, as 
Mr. Bagshaw and Mr. Nares also observe, is improper; the 
fish being originally called solca from its shape, resembling 
the sole of a shoe or sandal.]—-Of flat fish, rays, thornbacks, 
soles, and flowks, Carew. 
SOLE, in Ship-Building, a sort of lining, to prevent wear¬ 
ing or tearing away the main part to which it may be attached; 
as to the rudder, bilgeways, &c. 
SOLE is also a name sometimes given to the lower side of 
a gun-port, which, however, is more properly called the 
port-sill. 
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