solitaire

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A gem, such as a diamond, that is set alone.
2. n. Games Any of a number of card games played by one person.
3. n. Any of several thrushes of the genus Myadestes, found in North and Central America and noted for their beautiful song.
4. n. Either of two large flightless birds (Raphus solitarius and Pezophaps solitaria) of the Mascarene Islands which together with the dodo make up the extinct family Raphidae. The solitaires were extinct by the end of the 18th century.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A person who lives in solitude; a recluse; a hermit; a solitary.
2. n. A precious stone, oftenest a diamond, set by itself, and not combined with other jewels.
3. n. A loose necktie of black silk, resembling a ribbon, sometimes secured to the bag of the wig behind, and in front either falling loosely or secured by a brooch or similar jewel: a fashion for men in the eighteenth century.
4. n. A game which one person can play alone. In particular and properly A game played on a board indented with thirty-three or thirty-seven hemispherical hollows, with an equal number of balls. One ball is removed from the board, and the empty hollow thus left enables pieces to be captured. The object of the player is to take by jumping, as in checkers, all the pieces except one without moving diagonally or over more than one space at a time; or else, by similar moves, to leave certain configurations.
5. n. In ornithology:
6. n. An extinct didine bird, Pezophaps solitarius. See Pezophaps.
7. n. A fly-catching thrush of Jamaica, Myiadestes armillatus, which leads a retired life in wooded mountainous resorts; hence, any bird of this genus. The name was originally applied to the bird of Martinique, now known as M. genibarbis, Townsend's solitaire is a common bird of many parts of the western United States. All are fine songsters. See Myiadestes.
8. n. The pensive thrush, Monticola or Petrocincla solitaria. See rock-thrush.

Wiktionary

1. n. A person who lives alone; a recluse or hermit.
2. n. Any of various card games that can be played by one person.
3. n. A game for one person, played on a board with pegs or balls, in which the object is, beginning with all the places filled except one, to remove all but one of the pieces by "jumping", as in draughts.
4. n. An extinct bird related to dodo, Pezophaps solitaria, Rodrigues solitaire, that lived on the island of Rodrigues.
5. n. An extinct bird formerly believed to be related to the dodo, more precisely Réunion solitaire, Raphus solitarius, now preferably Réunion ibis, Threskiornis solitarius.
6. n. One of several American species of bird in the genus Myadestes in the thrush family.
7. n. A gem set on its own.
8. adj. living or being alone; solitary

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A person who lives in solitude; a recluse; a hermit.
2. n. A single diamond in a setting; also, sometimes, a precious stone of any kind set alone.
3. n. A game which one person can play alone; -- applied to many games of cards, etc.; also, to a game played on a board with pegs or balls, in which the object is, beginning with all the places filled except one, to remove all but one of the pieces by “jumping,” as in draughts.
4. n. A large extinct bird (Pezophaps solitaria) which formerly inhabited the islands of Mauritius and Rodrigeuz. It was larger and taller than the wild turkey. Its wings were too small for flight. Called also solitary.
5. n. Any species of American thrushlike birds of the genus Myadestes. They are noted their sweet songs and retiring habits. Called also fly-catching thrush. A West Indian species (Myadestes sibilans) is called the invisible bird.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a card game played by one person
2. n. a gem (usually a diamond) in a setting by itself
3. n. a dull grey North American thrush noted for its beautiful song
4. n. extinct flightless bird related to the dodo