8. (Bot.)
Defn: Of a fleshy, uniform, undivided substance, as a bulb or root; not spongy or hollow within, as a stem.
9. (Metaph.)
Defn: Impenetrable; resisting or excluding any other material particle or atom from any given portion of space; — applied to the supposed ultimate particles of matter.
10. (Print.)
Defn: Not having the lines separated by leads; not open.
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.
SOLID
Sol"id, n.
1. A substance that is held in a fixed form by cohesion among its particles; a substance not fluid.