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SOLE of a Horse, that plate of horn which, encompassing 
the fleshy sole, covers the whole bottom of the foot. 
To SOLE, v. a. To furnish with soles: as, to sole a 
pair of shoes.—His feet were soled with, a treble tuft of a 
close short tawney down. Grew. 
SOLE, adj. [sol, old French; solus, Latin.] Single; 
only. 
To me shall be the glory sole among 
The infernal powers. Milton. 
[In Law.] Not married.—Some others-are such as a man 
cannot make his wife, though he himself be sole and un¬ 
married. Ay life. 
SOLE, a small river of the Ecclesiastical states, in the 
duchy of Spoleto. It falls into the Tiber. 
SOLErE, among the Romans, were a kind of sandals or 
slippers, which covered only the sole of the feet. 
SOLEBURY, a township of the United States, in Berks 
county, Pennsylvania, on the Delaware, opposite Amwell, 
New Jersey Population 1669. 
SOLEC, a town of Poland, on the Vistula; 35 miles 
north of Sendomir. Population 1300. 
SO'LECISM, s. [(roXoiKKryo;, Gr. from 'SoXoikoi, Soloeci, 
coloni Attici, qui Solis, Ciliciae urbe, habitantes. (c ro\oiKto-p.of) 
any thing incorrect or out of order; Fr . solecism i] Unfit¬ 
ness of one word to another ; impropriety in language. A 
barbarism may be in one word, a solecism must be of more. 
—There is scarce a solecism in writing which the best author 
is not guilty of, if we be at liberty to read him in the words 
of some manuscript.—Any unfitness or impropriety. 
To have one fair gentlewoman thus be made 
The unkind instrument to wrong another. 
And one she knows not, ay, and to persevere. 
In my poor judgement is not warranted 
From being a solecism in our sex, 
If not in manners. B. Jonson. 
SO'LECIST, s. [<roXo(/a?v)<, Gr.] One who is guilty of 
impropriety in language.—Shall a noble writer, and an in¬ 
spired noble writer, be called a solecist, and barbarian, for 
giving a new turn to a word so agreeable to the analogy and 
genius of the Greek tongue ? Blackmail. 
SOLECI'STICAL, adj. Not correct; barbarous.-—He 
thought it made the language solecistical and absurd. 
Blackmail. 
SOLECI'STICALLY, adv. In an incorrect way.—Which 
I had formerly for my own use set down, some of them 
briefly, and almost solecistically. Wollaston. 
To SO'LECIZE, v. n, [yoXoiKt^u, Gr.] To be guilty of 
impropriety in language.—This being too loose a principle 
-— to fancy the holy writers to solecize in their language, 
when we do not like the sense. More. 
SOLECZNIK, a small town of Russian Lithuania, in the 
government of Wilna. 
SOLEDA, a settlement of the island of Cuba; 56 miles 
south-south-east of Havannah. 
SOLEDAD, the name of several inconsiderable settle¬ 
ments in different parts of Spanish America. 
SOLEIL de Mer, a name given by the French writers, and 
by Rondeletius, to the star-fish. 
SOLEISSEL (James de), a celebrated master of horseman¬ 
ship, was born in 1617. He published a work, entitled 
“Le Parfait Marechal,” which became very popular, and was 
translated into several languages. 
SO'LELY, adv. Singly; only. 
You knew my father well, and in him me, 
Left solely heir to all his lands. Shakspeare . 
This night’s great business 
Shall to all our nights and days to come 
Give solely sovereign sway and masterdom. Shakspeare. 
SO'LEMN, adj. [solemn el, Fr.; so/emnis, Lat.] Anni¬ 
versary ; observed once a year with religious ceremonies.— 
The worship of this image was advanced, with a solemn 
supplication observed every year. Stillingjleet .—Religi¬ 
ously grave; awful.—His holy rites and solemn feasts pro- 
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fan’d. Milton .—Formal; ritual; religiously regular.—The 
necessary business of a man’s calling, with some, will not 
afford much time for set and solemn prayer. Wh. Duty of 
Man .—Striking with seriousness; sober; serious. 
Then gan he loudly through the house to call. 
But no one cared to answer to his cry; 
There reigned a solemn silence over all. Spenser. 
To swage with solemn touches troubled thoughts. Mil- 
ton.—Grave ; affectedly serious.—When Steele reflects upon 
the many solemn strong barriers to our succession of laws 
and oaths, he thinks all fear vanisheth: so do I, provided the 
epithet solemn goes for nothing; because though I have 
heard of a solemn day, and a solemn coxcomb, yet I can 
conceive no idea of a solemn barrier. Swift. 
SO'LEMNESS, or Sole'mnity, s. [ solemnity, French, 
from solemn .] Ceremony or rite annually performed. 
Great was the cause ; our old solemnities 
From no blind zeal or fond tradition rise ; 
But, saved from death, our Argives yearly pay 
These grateful honours to the god of day. Pope. 
Religious ceremony.—Honest men’s words are Stygian 
oaths, and promises inviolable. These are not the men for 
whom the fetters of law were first forged; they needed not 
the so/emness of oaths ; by keeping their faith they swear, 
and evacuate such confirmations. Brown —Awful ceremony 
or procession. 
The Lady Constance, 
Some speedy messenger bid repair 
To our solemnity. Shakspeare. 
Manner of acting awfully serious.—With much more skilful 
cruelty, and horrible solemnity, he caused each thing to be 
prepared for his triumph of tyranny. Sidney .—Gravity ; 
steady seriousness.—The stateliness and gravity of the Spa¬ 
niards shews itself in the solemnity of their language. 
Addison .—Awful grandeur; grave stateliness; sober dig¬ 
nity.—A diligent decency was in Polycletus, above others ; 
to whom though the highest praise be attributed by the most, 
yet some think he wanted solemness. Wotton. —Affected 
gravity.—Pr’ythe, Virgilia, turn thy solemness out o’ door, 
and go along with us. Shakspeare. 
SOLEMNIZA'TION, s. The act of solemnizing; cele¬ 
bration.—Soon followed the solemnization of the marriage 
between Charles and Anne dutchess of Bretagne, with whom 
he received the dutchy of Bretagne. Bacon. 
To SO'LEMNIZE, v. a. [ solemniser, French.] To dig¬ 
nify by particular formalities; to celebrate.—Dorilaus in a 
great battle was deprived of life: his obsequies being no 
more solemnized by the tears of his partakers than the blood 
of his enemies. Sidney. —The multitude of the celestial 
host were heard to solemnize his miraculous birth. Boyle. 
—To perform religiously once a year.—What commandment 
the Jews had to celebrate their feast of dedication, is never 
spoken of in the law, yet solemnized even by our Saviour 
self. Hooker. 
SO'LEMNLY, adv. With annual religious ceremonies; 
with formal gravity and stateliness; with affected gravity. 
The ministers of state, who gave us law, 
In corners, with selected friends, withdraw; 
There in deaf murmurs solemnly are wise, 
Whisp’ring like winds, ere hurricanes arise. Dry den. 
With formal state. 
Let him land, 
And solemnly see him set on to London. Shakspeare. 
With religious seriousness.—To demonstrate how much 
men are blinded by their own partiality, I do solemnly assure 
the reader, that he is the only person from whom I ever 
heard that objection. Swift. 
SOLEN, the Razor-Sheath, or Spout-Fish, in Natu¬ 
ral History, a genus of the Vermes Testacea class and order, 
of which the Generic Character is as follows:—The animal is 
an 
