600 perfons, and are faid to be the first of their kind in Europe. (2.) * SOHO. interj. A form of calling from a diftant place. SOHRAU, or ZYORY. See ZYORY. SOIATOI, an island of Ruffia, in the Cafpian Sea; 148 miles SE. of Afracan. SOIGNIES, a town of the French empire, in the dep. of Jemappes, and ci-devant province of Auftrian Hainauit, in the late county of Mons, near a wood, on the Senne: 8 miles NE. of Mons, and 17 W. of Bruffets. Lon. 4. 14. E. Lat. 53. 29. N. (1.) * SOIL. n. [from the verb.] 1. Dirt; fpot; pollution; foulness.— All the foil of the atchievement goes Shak --That would be a great foil in the new glofs of your marriage. Shak. Vexed I am with paffions, Which give fome foil perhaps to my behaviour. Shak. -The firft caufe of a kingdom's thriving is the fruitfulness of the foil. Swift. 3. Land; country. feure dwellings. Mr Boulton, in conjunction with Mr Fothergill, then his partner, at an expence of 9000l. crested a handfome and extenfive edifice, yub a view of manufacturing metallic toys. The first productions confifted of buttons, buckies, avatch-chains, trinkets, and fuch other articles as were peculiar to Birmingham, Novelty, tafle, and variety, were, however, always confpicuous; and plated wares, called Sheffield plate, compriting a great variety of ufeful and ornamental articles, became another permanent fubject of manufacture. To open channels for the confumption of thefe commodities, all the northern part of Europe was explored by the mercantile partner Mr Fothergill, A wide and extenfive correspondence was thus established, the undertaking became well known, and the manufacturer, by becoming his own merchant, eventually enjoyed a double profit. Impelled by an ardent attachment to the arts, and by the patriotic ambition of forming his favourite Soho into a fruitful feminary of artifts, the proprietor extended his' views; and men of taite and talents were now fought for, and liberally patronife1. A fuccefsful imitation of the French or marlie ornaments, confifting of vases, tripods, candelabra, &c. &c. extended the celebrity of the works. Services of plate and other works in fiver, both maffive and airy, were added, and an affay once was established in Birmingham. Mr WATT, the ingenious improver of the fteam engine, entered into partnership with Mr Boulton; and they carried on at Soho a manufactory of steam engines, not lefs beneficial to the public than lucrative to themielves. This vaJuable machine, the nature and excellencies of which are deferibed in another place (fee STEAM ENGINE), Mr Boulton next propofed to apply to the operation of coining, and a fuitable apparatus was erected at a great expence, in the hope of being employed by government to make a new copper coinage for the kingdom. Artifts of merit were engaged, and fpecimens of exquifite delica cy were exhibited; but as no national coinage immediately took place, the works were employed for fome time upon high finished medals and private coins. But the British Government, at all times ready to reward merit, did not overlook that of Mr Boulton. A new copper coinage was iflued in 1798; and the public were supplied and gratified with new penny and two-penny pieces, and with larger and more beautiful half-pence nd farthings than they had ever feen before. To enumerats all the productions of this manufactoby would be tedious. At this place, in 1772, Mr Eginton invented his expeditious method of copying pictures in oil. In a national view, Mr Boulton's undertakings are highly valuable and important. By coile&ing around him artifts of various descriptions, rīvál talents have been called forth, and by fucceffive competition have been multiplied to an extent highly beneficial to the public. The mangal arts partook of the benefit, and became proportionably improved. A barren heath has been covered with plenty and population; and Mr Boulton's works, which in their infancy were hittie known and attended to, now coer feveral acres, give employment to more than Dorfet, that with a fearful foul Leads difcontented steps in foreign foil. Shak. Muft I thus leave thee, paradife! thus leave Thet, native foil! thefe happy walks. Milton. 4. Dung: compoft.-All the foil on that fide of Ravenna has been left there infenfibly by the fea. Addifon.-Improve land by dung, and other fort of foils. Mortimer. (2.) SOIL, (§ 1. def. 2.) is the mould covering the furface of the earth, in which vegetables grow It ferves as a support for vegetables, and as a refervoir for receiving and communicating their nourishment. Soils are commonly double or triple compounds of the severai reputed primitive earths, except the barytic, (fee EARTHS, § VI.i; and MINERALOGY, Part II: Chap. III.) The magnefian likewife fparingly occurs. The more fertile foils afford affo a. fmall proportion of coaily fubftance arifing from putrefaction, and fome tra ces of marine acid and gypsum. The vulgar divifion into cay, chaik, fand, and gravel, is well underfood. Loam denotes any foil moderately adhesive; and, according to the ingredient that predominates, it receives the epithets of clayey, chalky, fandy, or gravelly. The intimate mixture of clay with the oxydes of iron is called till, and is of a hard confiftence and a dark reddith colour. Soils are found by analysis to contain their earthy Ingredients in very different proportions. Accord ing to M. Giobert, fertile mould in the vicinity of Turin, where the fail of rain amounts yearly to 40 inches, affords for each 100 parts, from 77 to 79 af Glex, from 8 to 14 of argill, and from 5 to Is of calx; befides about one half of carbonic matter, and nearly an equal weight of gas, partly carbonic, and partly hydrocarbonic. The fame experimenter reprefents the compofition of barren als in fimilar fituations to be from 42 to 88 per cent of filex, from 20 to 30 of argill, and from 4 to 20 of calx. The celebrated Bergman found rich foils in the valleys of Sweden, where the annual quantity of raiu is 24 inches, to contain, for each Ioo parts, 56 of filiceous fand, 14 of argill, and 30 of calx. In the climate of Paris, where the average fall of rain is 20 inches, fertile mixtures, according to M. Tillet, vary from 46 to 52 per cent of filex, and from 11 to 17 of arguil, with or calx. Hence it appears that in dry countries rich earths are of a clofer texture, and contain more of the calcareous ingredient, with lefs of the filiceous. Mr Arthur Young has difcover2, that the value of fertile lands is nearly proportioned to the quantities of gas which equal weights of their foil afford by diftillation. Dr 1 nomion fays, that "the good or bad qualities cf fails depend upon a proper mixture of filica, a umina, lime, magnefia, iron, carbon, carbonic acid, and water." See MINERALOGY, Part II. Cap. IV. Clay's I. Order 11. Genus IV. See (3.) SOILS, CULTIVATION, DISTINCTIONS, IMPROVEMENTS, &C. OF THE VARIOUS. RURAL ECONOMY, Part I. Se&. II—IV. Part 11. S. II, V, VII.; and Part IV. Se&. X. *To SOIL. p. a. filian, Saxon; foelen, old German; fouiller, French. I 1. To foul; to dirt; to pollute; to itain; to fully. A fly man in fimple weeds forlorn, And foil'd with dust of the long dried way. Fairy Queen. -Although fome hereticks have abused this text, yet the fun is not foiled in pallage. Bacon.— If I fail Myfelf with fin, I then but vainly toil. Sandys. I would not foil these pure ambrofial weeds. Milton. Our wonted ornaments now foil'd. Milton. One who cou'd n't for a tafte of th' flesh come in, Licks the foil'd earth. Tate. -If the eye-glafs be tinted faintly with the froke of a lamp or torch, to obfcure the light of the ftar, the fainter light in the circumference of the far ceafes to be vifible, and the ftar, if the gifs be fufficiently foiled with fmoke, appears fomething more like a mathematical point. New He merits well to have her, Not making any scruple of her foilure. Shak.. SOINIDRO, a town of the island of Cuba; 75 miles ESE. of Havanna. * SOJOURN. n. f. fejour, French; from the, verb.] A temporary relidence; a cafual and no fettled habitation. This word was anciently accented on the laft fyllable: Milton accents it indifferently.— The princes, France and Burgundy, Long in our court have made their am'rous fojourn. Shak. Elcap'd the Stygian pool, though long detain'd In that obfcure fojourn. And once a-year Jerufalem, few days Short fojourn. Milton. Milton. To SOJOURN. v. n. [fejourner, French; feggiornare, Italian.] To dweil any where for a time; to live as not at home; to inhabit as not in a fettled habitation. Almuft out of use. You will return and fojourn with my fifter. Shak. Th' advantage of his abfence took the king. And in the mean time fojourn'd at my father's. Shak. -How comes it he is to fojourn with you? Shak. Here dwells he; though he fojourn every where. Donne. With perfidious hatred they purfu’d The fojourners of Gothen. Milton. Welcome an owner, not a fojourner. Dryd. SOJOWITZ, a town of Bohcinia, in Boleflau, 4 miles S. of Benatek. SOISSONNOIS, a ci-devant province of France, bounded on the N. by Laonnois; E. by Champagne; S. by Brie, and W. by Valois. It was inhabited by the ancient SUESSIONES, a brave nation of Gaul, in the time of Cæfar. It is fertile, and abounds in corn, wood, and pafture. It now forms, along with the ci-devant province of Vermandois, the department of AISNE. SOISSONS, än ancient, large, and considerable city of France, in the department of Aifne, and late province of Soifionnois. In the time of Julius Cæfar, it was called NovIODUNUM, and was the capital of the SUESSIONES;. whence the modern name. It was the capital of a kingdom of the fame name, under the first race of the French monarchs. It contains about 12,000 inhabitants, and is a bishop's fee. The environs are charming, but the streets are narrow, and the houses ili built. The fine cathedral has one of the most confiderable chapters in the kingdom. St Lewis, Philip III. and Lewis XIV. were crowned in it. The caftic, though ancient, is not that in which the the kings of the first race refided. Soiffons is feated in a very pleasant and fertile valley, on the Aifne, 30 miles W. by N. of Rheims, and 60 NE. of Paris. Lon. 3. 24. E. Lat. 49. 23. N. SOITO, a town of Portugal, in Entre Duero Minho; 6 miles N. of Barcelos. SOK. See Soc, and SocCAGE. SOKALLEN, a town of Ruffian Lithuania; 9 miles N. of Ragnitz. SOKASPAGE, a town of the United States, in Georgia; 4 miles NE. of Oakfufkee. SOKE, or Sox. See SOCAGE. SOKFLY, a town of Norway, in Bergen. SOKEMAN. See Soc, SoCAGE, and Soc MAN. Solac'd the woods. (2.) To SOLACE. W. n. To take comfort; SOKER, an island in the Red Sta; 3 miles E. to be recreated. The neutral fenfe is obfolete.of Dejahbei. SOKO, a fertile diftrict of Africa, on the Gold Coaft, extending 3 miles along the coaft of the Volta. The people are employed in fishing. SOKOLOW, a town of Poland, in Podolia. SOKOLOWKA, a town of the ci-devant kingdom of Poland, and iate Palatinate of Lemberg; now in the modern Auftrian kingdom of GALICIA; 20 miles S. of Lemberg. SOKOLVOD, a mountain of Croatia. SOKOR, a fort of Ruffia, in the country of the Coffacs; 24 miles NW. of Tzaritgin. (1.) SOL, the Sun, in astronomy, aftrology, &c. See ASTRONOMY, Index. (2.) SOL, in chemifiry, is gold; thus called from an opinion that this metal is in a particular manGer under the influence of the fun. (3.) SOL, in heraldry, denotes Or, the golden colour in the arms of fovereign princes. (4.) SOL, in music, the fifth note of the gamut, ut, re, mi, fa, fel, la. See GAMUT. (5.) SOL, or Sou, in the French currency, a coin made up of copper mixed with a little filver, and worth upwards of an English halfpenny, or the 23d part of an English shishing. The fol when first ftruck was equal in value to 12 deniers Tournois, whence it was also called douzain, a name it ftill retains, though its ancient vaiue be changed; the fol having been fince augmented by three deniers, and ftruck with a puncheon of a fleur-de-lis, to make it current for 15 deniers. Soon after the old fols were coined over again, and both old and new were indifferently made current for 15 deniers. In 1709, the value of the fame fols was raifed to 18 deniers. Towards the end of the reign of Lewis XIV. the fol of 18 deniers was again lowered to 15; and by Lewis XVI. it was reduced to the original value of 12. (6.) SOL, in Dutch currency. The Dutch have two kinds of fols: the one of fiiver, called fols de gros, and likewife fchelling; the other of copper, called alfo the fluyver. SOLA, an island in the Caribbean Sea; 30 miles E. of Margarita. * SOLACE. ». f. [ folatium, Latin. Comfort; pleasure; alleviation; that which gives comfort or pleasure; recreation; amusement. Therein fat a lady fresh and fair,' Making fweet folace to herself alone. Fairy Queen. -Although they be glad, we are not to envy them this their folace. Hooker.— But one thing to rejoice and folace in, And cruel death hath catch'd it. This fikly land might folace as before. Shak. Shakespeare. SOLÆUS, or SOLEUS, in anatomy, one of the extenfor mufcles of the foot, rifing from the upper and binder parts of the tibia and fibula. (1.) SOLANDER, Danici Charles, M. D. an eminent Swedish naturalift, born in the province of Nordland, in Sweden, in 1736. He fudied at Upla!, and was a pupil of the great Linnæus. He took his degree at Upfal, and in 1760 visited Eng land, where he continued fome years, and was prevailed on by his friend Sir Jofeph Banks, to accompany Captain Cook in his firft voyage of discovery round the world, in 1768. (See Cook, HI. 2.) In 1773, he was appointed one of the librarians of the British Mufæum. He died of an apoplectic fit, in 1782. * (2.) SOLANDER. n.f. [foulandres, Fr.] A dif eafe in horfes. Dia. (3.) SOLANDER is the fame with SALLENDER. See FARRIERY, Part IV. Sect. XI. (4.) SOLANDER, or SOLANDER'S ISLAND, in geography, an island in the S. Pacific Ocean, near the S. coaft of New Zealand, discovered by Cap. tain Cook, in 1770, and named by him after the celebrated Doctor. It is only a mile in circuit, but remarkably high, confifting of feverai hills. Both hills and valleys produce wood, but no inhabitants were obferved on it. Lon. 192. 49. W. Lat. 46. 31. S. SOLANDRA, in botany, a genus of plants, ranked by fome botanifts under the clafs monadephia, and the order polyandria; but by that accurate botanist, Mr James Lee, of Hammersmith, it is arranged under the clafs polygamia, and in the order monoecia. It is ranked in the natural fyl tem, under the 38th order, Tricoccea. The calyx is fimple; the capfule oblong, wreathed, and fivecelled; the feeds are many, difpofed in celis in a double order. The valves after maturity are divaricated, even to the base, and winged inwards by the partition. The only fpecies is SOLANDRA LOBATA. This genus was first named Solandra, in honour of Dr Solander, by Murray in the 14th edition of the Syftema Vegeta bilium. SOLANGO, an ifland on the coaft of Peru; 21 miles N. by W. of the Colanche, and 12 S. of Port Callo. SOLAN GOOSE. See PELICANUS, N° 2. 143 JOLANILLOS, a town of Spain, in New Caf tile: 23 miles E. of Guadalaxara. SOLANTA, or a town, cape, and bay, on SOLANTO, the N. coast of Sicily; 8 miles E. of Palermo. Lon. 31. 22. E. Ferro. Lat. 38. 9. N. ) SOL vegetable egg. This is alfo cultivated in gardens, particularly in Jamaica. It feldom rifes above a foot in height. The ftalk is herbaceous and fmooth; the leaves oval and downy; the flowers are large and blue; the fruit is as big as, and very like, the egg of a goofe. It is often nfed boil. ed as a vegetable along with animal food or but ter, and fuppofed to be aphrodisiac, and to cure fterility. SOLANUM, in botany, a genus of the monogya order, belonging to the pentandria ciafs of plants; and in the natural method ranking under the 18th order, Luride. The calyx is inferior; the corolla is rotate, and generally monophyllous; the fruit a berry, bilocular, and containing many fmall and fat feeds. Of this genus there are 66 fpecies, most of them natives of the Eart and Wet Indies. The most remarkable are the following: 1. SOLANUM DULCAMARA, a native of Britain and of Africa, is a lender climbing plant, rifing to fix or more feet in height. The leaves are geBerally oval, pointed, and of a deep green colour; the flowers hang in loofe clusters, of a purple colour, and divided into five pointed fegments. The calyx is purple, persistent, and divided into five. The five filaments are short, black, and inferted into the tube of the corolla. The antheræ yellow, erect, and united in a point as usual in this genus. The ftyle is long, and terminates in an obtufe ftigma. The berry, when ripe, is red, and contains many flat yellowith feeds. It grows in hedges well fupplied with water, and flowers about the end of June. On chewing the roots, we firft feel a bitter, then a fweet, tafte; hence the name. The berries are poisonous, and may eafily be mistaken by children for currants. The fpites or younger branches are directed for ufe, and may be employed either fresh or dried: they hould be gathered in the autumn. They are given in decoction or infufion. Razou directs the following: Take dried dulcamara twigs half a dram, and pour uporit 16 ounces of spring water, which muft be boiled down to 8 ounces; then ftrain it: 3 or 4 tea spoonfuls to be taken every 4 hours, diluted with milk to prevent its exciting a naufea. Several authors fay, that the dalcamara partakes of the milder powers of the nightshade, joined to a refolvent and faponaceous quality; hence it promotes the fecretions of u nae, fweat, the menfes, and lochia. It is recommended in a variety of diforders; but particularly in rheumatifms, obftructed menfes, and lochia; alfo in fome obftinate cutaneous diseases. 2. SOLANUM LONGUM. This pant is herbaceous, but grows rank. The flowers are blue; and the fruit is fix or eight inches long, and proportionally thick. It is boiled and eaten at tabie as the egg-plant, N° 4. 3. SOLANUM LYCOPERSICON, the LOVE AP. PLE, or TOMATO, cultivated in gardens in the warmer parts of Europe and in ail tropical countres. The talk is herbaceous, the leaves pinnated, oval, pointed, and deeply divided. The flowers are on fimple racemi: they are small and yellow. The berry is of the fize of a pum; they are fmooth, fhining, foft; and are either of a yellow or reddish colour. The tomato is in daily ufe; being either boiled in foups or broths, or ferved up boiled as garnishes to fleth meats. 4. SOLANUM MELONGENA, the egg plant, or 5. SOLANUM Nigrum, NiGHTSHADE, COM mon in many places in Britain about dunghills and wafte places. It rifes to about two feet in height. The stalk herbaceous, the leaves alter. mate, irregularly oval, indented, and clothed with foft hairs. The flowers are white; the berries black and fhining. It appears to poffefs the de leterious qualities of the other nightshades in a very high degree, and even the smell of the plant is faid to caufe fleep. The berries are equally poifonous with the leaves; caufing cardialgia, and delirium, and violent diftortions of the limbs in children. Mr Gataker in 1757 recommended its internal use in oid fores, in ferofulous and cance rous ulcers, cutaneous eruptions, and in dropfies. He fays, that one grain infufed in an ounce of water fometimes produced a confiderable effect; that in the dofe of 2 or 3 grains it feldom failed to evacuate the firft paffages, to increase very fenfibly the discharges by the fkin and kidneys, and fometimes to occafion headach, drowsiness, gid. diness, and dimness of fight. Mr Broomfield fays, that in cafes in which he tried this folanum, they were much aggravated by it; and that in one cafe in the dofe of one grain it proved mortal to one of his patients; therefore he thinks its ufe is prejudicial. It is now never given internally. It was anciently employed externally as a difcutient and anodyne in fome cutaneous affections, tumefactions of the glands, ulcers, and diforders of the eyes. 6. SOLANUM NIGRUM RUBRUM, a native of the Weft Indies, is called guma by the negroes. It is fo far from having any deleterious quality, that it is daily served up at table as greens or fpinnage. It has an agreeable bitter taste. 7. SOLANUM TUBEROSUM, the common potato. See POTATO, § I, 1—14; and RÚRAL ECONOMY, Part II. Sect. III. § 2. (1.) * SOLAR. SOLARY. adj. [folaire, French ; felaris, Latin.] 1. Being of the iun.-The corpufeles that make up the beams of light be folary effluviums. Boyle. Golden fruits, By genial fhow'rs and folar heat supply'd. Blackmore 2. Belonging to the fun.-They denominate fome herbs falar, and fome lunar. Bacon.-Scripture hath been punctual in other records, concerning folary miracles. Brown. 3. Born under or in the predominant influence of the fun. Proud befide, as folar people are. Dryden. 4. Measured by the fun.-The rule to find the moon's age, on any day of any felar month, cannot fhew precifely an exact account of the moon, because of the inequality, and the number of days of the folar months. Holder. (2.) SOLAR DAYS. See ASTRONOMY, and CHRONOLOGY, Indexes. (4) SOLAR MICROSCOPE. See MICROSCOPE, N° 7,8; and OPTICS, Index. (5.) SOLAR NOON. See ASTRONOMY, Index. (6.) SOLAR SPOTS. See ASTRONOMY, § 51, 93-103; 145-155. (7.) SOLAR SYSTEMS. See ASTRONOMY, Index. (8.) SOLAR YEAR. See ASTRONOMY, and CHRONOLOGY, Indexes. SOLAROSA, a town of Sardinia; 9 miles NE. of Oriftagni. SOLARS, 3 islands in the E. Indian Ocean, belonging to the Dutch; abounding in all kinds of provifions. The middle one has a good harbour, and lies E. of Ende Inland. *SOLARY. See SOLAR. SOLBE, a river in the isle of Man. SOLCA, a town of the new Italian kingdom, (ci-devant republic,) in the dep. of Panaro, diftrict and late duchy of Modena; 7 miles N. of Modena. (3.) SOLAR ECLIPSES. See ASTRONOMY, In- than pure gold itself, thefe mixtures ferve as fol dex. ders for gold: two pieces of fine gold are foldered by gold that has a small admixture of copper; and gold alloyed with copper is foldered by fuch as is alloyed with more copper. A mixture of goid and copper is alfo a folder for fine copper as well as for fine gold. Gold being particularly difpofed to unite with iron, proves an excellent folder for the finer kinds of iron and steel inftruments. The folder ufed by plumbers is made of two pounds of lead to one of block-tin. Its goodnefs is tried by melting it, and pouring the bignefs of a crown piece on a table; for, if good, there will arife little bright fhining ftars therein. The folder for copper is made like that of the plumbers; only with copper and tin; and for ve ry nice works, inftead of tin, they fometimes ufe a quantity of filver. Solder for tin is made of two 3ds of tin, and one of lead, or of equal parts of each; but where the work is any thing delicate, as in organ pipes, where the juncture is fearce difcernible, it is made of one part of bifmuth and three parts of pewter. The pewterers ufe a kind of folder made with two parts of tin and one of bifmuth; this compofition meits with the leaft heat of any folder. Silver folder is that which is mate of two parts of filver and one of brafs, and ufed in foldering thofe metals. Spelter folder is made of one part of brals and two of fpelter or zinc, and is used by the braziers and copperfiniths for foldering brafs, copper, and iron. Though spelter folder be much cheaper than filver folder, yet workmen in many cafes prefer the latter. Mr Boyle found it to run with fo moderate a heat, as not to endanger the melting of the delicate parts of the work to be foldered; and if well made, this filver folder will lie even upon the ordinary kind itfelf; and fo fill up thofe little cavities that may chance to be left in the first operation. As to iron, it is fufficient that it be heated to a white heat, and the two extremities, in this state, be hammered together; by which means they become incorporated one with the other. SOLCK, a town of Stiria; 16 miles W. of Oberwoltz. (1.) * SOLD. The preterite and participle paffive of fell. (2.) SOLD n. f. fouldée, old French. Trevoux.] Military pay; warlike entertainment.But were your will her fold to entertain. Fairy Queen. (1.) * SOLDAN. n. f. [from fultan.] The emperor of the Turks.— They at the foldan's chair defy'd the beft. Milton. (2.) SOLDAN. See SULTAN. (1.) * SOLDANEL. n. f. (foldanella, Latin.] A plant. Miller. (2.) SOLDANEL, or RINDWEED, in botany, SOLDANELLA, a genus of piants belonging to the ciats of pentandria, and order of monogynia; and in the natural system arranged under the 21st order, Precia. The corolla is campanulated; the border being very finely cut into a great many fegments. The capfule is unilocular, and its apex polydentate. SOLDANIA, a bay on the SW. coaft of Afri- (1.) * SOLDER. n. S. [from the verb.] Metack cement. A metaluck body that will melt with lefs heat than the body to be foidered. Savift. Goldsmiths fay, the coarsest stuff Will ferve for folder well enough. (2.) SOLDER, SODDER, or SODER, a metallic or mineral compofition used in soldering or joining together other metals. Solders are made of gold, filver, copper, tin, bifmuth, and lead. In the compofition there must always be fome of the metal that is to be foidered mixed with feme higher and fier metals. Goldsmiths formerly made 4 kinds of folder, viz. folder of eight, where to feven parts of filver there is one of brals or copper; folder of fix, where only a fixth part is copper; folder of four, and folder of three: but one kind or 2 at moft is now ufed. As mixtures of gold with a little copper melt with lefs heat 1. To unite or *To SOLDER. v. a. [fouder, Fr. foldare, Ital. folidare, Latin.. See SODER. faften with any kind of metallick ceinent.-A concave sphere of gold, filed with water, and foldered up, has, upon prefling the fphere with great force, let the water squeeze through it. Newton. 2. To mend; to unite any thing broken.-It booteth them not thus to folder up a bro ken caufe. 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