Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not solid.
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- adjective Not
solid .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The depth of what may perhaps be termed the unsolid soil, is hitherto unknown, though various attempts have been made to ascertain it.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 479, March 5, 1831 Various
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“They are too slight and unsolid pledges, my lord,” said the Queen; “add at least a handful of thistle-down to give them weight in the balance.”
The Abbot 2008
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By this idea of solidity is the extension of body distinguished from the extension of space: — the extension of body being nothing but the cohesion or continuity of solid, separable, movable parts; and the extension of space, the continuity of unsolid, inseparable, and immovable parts.
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By this idea of solidity is the extension of body distinguished from the extension of space: - the extension of body being nothing but the cohesion or continuity of solid, separable, movable parts; and the extension of space, the continuity of unsolid, inseparable, and immovable parts.
God, Aids & Circumcision Hill, George 2005
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He did not, however, neglect to leave certain matters to future consideration, which had necessitated further visits, so that the little back room had become quite accustomed to his spare, not unsolid, but unobtrusive figure, and his pale, chinny face with clipped moustache and dark hair not yet grizzling at the sides.
In Chancery 2004
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When you started your baby on solids, did you stop and think about how unsolid those foods were?
Be Prepared Gary Greenberg 2004
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When you started your baby on solids, did you stop and think about how unsolid those foods were?
Be Prepared Gary Greenberg 2004
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And his outline was very wavery and unsolid, so that Garrison thought perhaps he gazed upon a ghost.
Psychosphere Lumley, Brian 1984
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Whatever faults are in the work of the master himself, he is never, up to the last, guilty of any feebleness or insipidity, such, for instance, as in the painting of this unsolid figure.
Luca Signorelli Maud Cruttwell
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My friend, for some mysterious reason, was left untouched, but the regiments that should have quartered on him joined those that were banqueting on my too unsolid flesh.
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