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The fryer was in the_--sol, sol, draw the tother quart.
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- noun Music The fifth tone of the diatonic scale in solfeggio.
- noun An old French coin worth 12 deniers.
- noun See Table at currency.
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- When one of them is seen going along, people say: that is the sol, that is the mi, or that is the re of M. Narischkin. — Ten Years' Exile
- It was getting toward dawn (at this latitude, the sol is almost fifty-fifty between light and dark), and I was yawning and shivering. — Analog Science Fiction and Fact
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The fryer was in the_--sol, sol, draw the tother quart.
— A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 4 - Y cuando en esto hubiera testimonios contra mi mas claros y mas ciertos que el sol, antes de creello habian Vs.Mds. informarse de si aquel dia habia yo perdido el seso o si estaba borracho, porque si no era asi no era creible cosa semejante. '] [Footnote 178: Documentos ineditos, vol. XI, pp. 151-171, — Fray Luis de Leon
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Conscious of length and form, I abbreviated it to tango and sol -- sol, the name of our star, the sun, from which astronomers formed the term "solar system".
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- Middle English, from Medieval Latin; see gamut.
- French, from Old French, from Late Latin solidus, solidus; see solidus.
- Spanish, sun (from the drawing on the coin), from Latin sōl, sun; see sāwel- in Indo-European roots.
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