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SOLOTSCHEV, a town of European Russia, in the 
government of Slobodsk Ukrain, on the river Uda, with two 
churches. Population 4800. 
SOLOTWINA, a small town of Austrian Poland, circle of 
Stanislawow, on the Bistritza. 
SOLOVETZKOI, an island in the White Sea, belonging 
to the government of Archangel, in European Russia. It 
has a very large monastery, to which the superstitious Rus¬ 
sians are in the habit of making pilgrimages. Lat. 64. 55. 
N. long. 30. 14. E. 
SOLPORT, a township of England, in Cumberland; 8 
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SOLRE LE CHATEAU, a town in French Flanders, 
with 1600 inhabitants. It has manufactures of lace and 
leather; also some traffic in linen; 7 miles south-east of 
Maubeuge. 
SOLSOGAN BAY, a bay on the south coast of the 
island of Lucon. Lat. 13.12. N. long. 123. 50. E. 
SOLSONA, or SALSONA, a town of the east of Spain, 
in Catalonia. It is fortified, is a bishop’s see, has 3000 
inhabitants, and some hardware manufactures; but it is ill 
built; 51 miles north-north-west of Barcelona. 
SO'LSTICE, s. [solstice, Fr., solstitium, Lat.] The point 
beyond which the sun does not go ; the tropical point; the 
point at which the day is longest in Summer, or shortest in 
Winter.—It is taken of itself commonly for the Summer 
solstice. 
Let the plowmen’s prayer 
Be for moist solstices, and Winter’s fair. May. 
SOLSTI'TIAL, adj. [solsticial, Fr.,from solsticei] Be¬ 
longing to the solstice.—Observing the dog-days ten days 
before and after the equinoctial and solstitial points, by this 
observation alone, are exempted a hundred days. Brown. 
—Happening at the solstice, or at Midsummer. 
From the North to call 
Decrepit Winter; from the south to bring 
Solstitial Summer’s heat. Milton. 
SOLTA, a small island in the Adriatic, on the coast of 
Austrian Dalmatia. 
SOLTAU, a town of Germany, in Hanover, duchy 
of Luenbnrg. Population 900; 26 miles north-north-west 
of Zell. 
SOLTCAMP, a town and fort of the Netherlands 
in the province of Groningen; 13 miles north-west of 
Groningen. 
SOLTH, a small town of Hungary; 47 miles south of 
Pest, inhabited by Hungarians of the Calvinist faith. 
SOLTHOLM, a small island of Denmark, in the Sound, 
between Zealand and Schonen, near Amak. 
SOL'VABLE, adj. [solvable, Fr. Cotgrave.] Possible to 
be cleared by iniquiry or reason; capable of being paid. 
The latter is the French meaning. Solvable seems a more 
correct spelling than solvib/e, so resolvable. —For solvable 
and colourable we might say solvent and apparent. Toolcc. 
SOLVATH, a small harbour or cove in Pembrokeshire, 
Wales, near St. David’s. 
SO'LUBLE, adj. [solubilis, Lat.] Capable of dissolu¬ 
tion or separation of parts.—-Sugar is a sal oleosum, being 
soluble in water and fusible in fire. Arbuthnot. —Producing 
laxity; relaxing. 
SOLUBI'LITY, s. Susceptiveness of separation of parts. 
—This cannot account for the indissolvable coherence of 
some bodies, and the fragility and solubility of others. 
G/avville. 
SOLUE, a small sea-port of Barca, in Northern Africa; 10 
miles south-west of Curen. 
To SOLVE, v. a. [solvo, Latin.] To clear; to explain; 
to untie an intellectual knot. 
He would solve high dispute 
With conjugal caresses. Milton 
SO'LVENCY, s. Ability to pay.—They see the debtor 
prescribing at the point of the bayonet the medium of his 
solvency to the creditor. Burke. 
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SOLVENT, adj. [solvens, Lat.] Having the power to 
cause dissolution.—When dissolved in water, it is not by 
the eye distinguishable from the solvent body, and appeare 
as fluid. Boyle. —Able to pay debts contracted. 
SO'LVER, s. Whoever or whatever explains or clears. 
SO'LVIBLE, adj. Possible to be cleared by reason or 
inquiry.—Intellective memory I call an act of the intellec¬ 
tive faculty, because it is wrought by it, though I do not 
inquire how or where, because it is not solvible. Hale. 
SOLUND-GOOSE, Soland-Goose, s. [Scotch.] A 
fowl..—A solund-goose is in bigness and feather very like a 
tame goose, but his bill longer, and somewhat pointed; his 
wings also much longer, being two yards over. Grew. 
SOLUTION, s. [solution, Fr. solutio, Lat.] Disrup¬ 
tion ; breach; disjunction; separation.—In all bodies there 
is an appetite of union, and evitation of solution of conti¬ 
nuity. Bacon. —Matter dissolved ; that which contains any 
thing dissolved.—Aretseus, to procure sleep, recommends a 
solution of opium in water to foment the forehead. Ar¬ 
buthnot .—Resolution of a doubt; removal of an intellectual 
difficulty. 
Something yet of doubt remains. 
Which only thy solution can resolve. Milton. 
This will instruct you to give a plainer solution of any 
difficulties that may attend the theme, and refute objections. 
Watts. —Release: deliverance; discharge.—A deliverance 
out of any state or power is called solution. Barrow. 
SO'LUTIVE, adj. [solutif, Fr. Cotgrave; from solvo, 
Lat.] Laxative; causing relaxation.—Though it would not 
be so abstersive, opening, and solutive as mead, yet it will 
be more lenitive in sharp diseases. Bacon. 
SOLVYTSCHEGODSK, a town of European Russia, on 
the Dwina. Population 2000; 250 miles east-by north of 
Vologda. 
SOLWAY FRITH, or Booness Wath, a navigable arm 
of the sea, which extends eastward from the Irish sea, forming 
the boundary between England and Scotland for upwards 
of 50 miles. The shore, particularly on the Scottish coast, is 
flat and sandy, with a few sunk rocks; but almost every 
part affords safe landing-places for small vessels. The frith 
is navigable for vessels of 100 tons burden within six miles 
of its extremity; but the sea is gradually retiring from the 
land, so that many places are now covered with verdure, 
over which, even in the memory of those alive, the tide was 
wont to flow. Spring tides rise 20 feet, and ordinary tides 
about 10 or 12. A number of rivers pour into this arm of 
the sea on the Scottish side, where it receives the Dee, the 
TJrr, the Nith, the Annan, and the Kiitle; while the Sark, 
the Esk, and the Liddal, united, form its eastern extremity 
It contains various kinds of fish, especially salmon, which 
are here caught in great numbers by various methods. Great 
quantities of herrings are taken and cured in some seasons, 
the navigation of the Solway frith is, however, greatly im¬ 
peded of late years by the number of sand-banks, which have 
greatly increased on the Scottish side, so that at Boulness, 
10 miles from its eastern extremity, it is fordable at low 
water, and not more than two miles over at high water. 
However, it has two channels, one for the Eden, and 
another for the Esk, in which vessels navigate to Sands- 
field, Sarkfoot, &c. 
SOLWAY MOSS, an extensive morass in Scotland, near 
the river Esk, at the head of the Solway frith, which, when 
the rivers were swollen with rain, burst out on the 13th No¬ 
vember 1771, and covered a great extent of the neighbour* 
ing country. Near this the Scots were defeated by a small 
party of the English in 1542. 
SOLYMANIA, called also Shehr Zour, a town of the 
territory of Kurdistan, but included within the nominal li¬ 
mits of the pachalic of Bagdad. It is the residence of Solyman, 
pacha of Kerdistan, a distinguished warrior, who in 1810, 
at the instigation of the Porte, took arms against his master, 
the pacha of Bagdad, whom he defeated and put to death. 
He rebuilt Shehr Zour, which had fallen into decay, and gave 
it his own name. It is situated in a delightful country, close 
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