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The fryer was in the_--sol, sol, draw the tother quart.

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  1. noun Music The fifth tone of the diatonic scale in solfeggio.
  2. noun An old French coin worth 12 deniers.
  3. 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
  • 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
  • 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". —  Hottest News Articles
 

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Etymologies (8)

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  1. Middle English, from Medieval Latin; see gamut.
  2. French, from Old French, from Late Latin solidus, solidus; see solidus.
  3. Spanish, sun (from the drawing on the coin), from Latin sōl, sun; see sāwel- in Indo-European roots.
  4. From solution.

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  1. Used chiefly as mere L.; Middle English sol (in def. 3); = Old French sol (dim, soleil, solail, soleis, etc., French soleil) = Spanish Portuguese sol. = Italian sole; from Latin sōl, the sun, = Anglo-Saxon sōl, the sun (sōl-mōnath, February), = Icelandic sōl = Swedish Danish sol = Gothic (Moesogothic) sauil = Welsh haul = Irish sul = Lithuanian Lettish Old Prussian saule, the sun; also with added suffixes, in Teutonic and Slav, forms, Anglo-Saxon sunne, etc., English sun: see sun.
  2. from Old French sol, later sou, French sou = Italian soldo, from Middle Latin solidus, a coin, from Latin solidus, solid: see solid, solidus, and cf. sou, soldo, sold, etc.
  3. Spanish sol, lit, sun: see sol.
  4. = F. Spanish Portuguese Italian sol: see gamut.
 

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