solida.[L. solidus, probably akin to sollus whole, entire, Gr. : cf. F. solide. Cf. Consolidate,Soda, Solder, Soldier, Solemn.]1. Having the constituent parts so compact, or so firmly adhering, as to resist the impression or penetration of other bodies; having a fixed form; hard; firm; compact; -- opposed to fluid and liquid or to plastic, like clay, or to incompact, like sand.()2. Not hollow; full of matter; as, a solid globe or cone, as distinguished from a hollow one; not spongy; dense; hence, sometimes, heavy.()3. (Arith.) Having all the geometrical dimensions; cubic; as, a solid foot contains 1,728 solid inches.()()4. Firm; compact; strong; stable; unyielding; as, a solid pier; a solid pile; a solid wall.()5. Applied to a compound word whose parts are closely united and form an unbroken word; -- opposed to hyphened.()6. Fig.: Worthy of credit, trust, or esteem; substantial, as opposed to frivolous or fallacious; weighty; firm; strong; valid; just; genuine.()The solid purpose of a sincere and virtuous answer. (Milton.)These, wanting wit, affect gravity, and go by the name of solid men. (Dryden.)The genius of the Italians wrought by solid toil what the myth-making imagination of the Germans had projected in a poem. (J. A. Symonds.)7. Sound; not weakly; as, a solid constitution of body.(I. Watts.)8. (Bot.) Of a fleshy, uniform, undivided substance, as a bulb or root; not spongy or hollow within, as a stem.()9. (Metaph.) 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.) Not having the lines separated by leads; not open.()11. United; without division; unanimous; as, the delegation is solid for a candidate.()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.()()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.)n.1. A substance that is held in a fixed form by cohesion among its particles; a substance not fluid.()2. (Geom.) A magnitude which has length, breadth, and thickness; a part of space bounded on all sides.()Solid of revolution. (Geom.) See Revolution, n., 5.()