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Sole   /soʊl/   Listen
adjective
Sole  adj.  
1.
Being or acting without another; single; individual; only. "The sole son of my queen." "He, be sure... first and last will reign Sole king."
2.
(Law) Single; unmarried; as, a feme sole.
Corporation sole. See the Note under Corporation.
Synonyms: Single; individual; only; alone; solitary.



noun
Sole, Sol  n.  (Chem.) A fluid mixture of a colloid and a liquid; a liquid colloidal solution or suspension.



Sole  n.  (Zool.)
(a)
Any one of several species of flatfishes of the genus Solea and allied genera of the family Soleidae, especially the common European species (Solea vulgaris), which is a valuable food fish.
(b)
Any one of several American flounders somewhat resembling the true sole in form or quality, as the California sole (Lepidopsetta bilineata), the long-finned sole (Glyptocephalus zachirus), and other species.
Lemon sole, or French sole (Zool.), a European species of sole (Solea pegusa).
Smooth sole (Zool.), the megrim.



Sole  n.  
1.
The bottom of the foot; hence, also, rarely, the foot itself. "The dove found no rest for the sole of her foot." "Hast wandered through the world now long a day, Yet ceasest not thy weary soles to lead."
2.
The bottom of a shoe or boot, or the piece of leather which constitutes the bottom. "The "caliga" was a military shoe, with a very thick sole, tied above the instep."
3.
The bottom or lower part of anything, or that on which anything rests in standing. Specifially:
(a)
(Agric.) The bottom of the body of a plow; called also slade; also, the bottom of a furrow.
(b)
(Far.) The horny substance under a horse's foot, which protects the more tender parts.
(c)
(Fort.) The bottom of an embrasure.
(d)
(Naut.) A piece of timber attached to the lower part of the rudder, to make it even with the false keel.
(e)
(Mining) The seat or bottom of a mine; applied to horizontal veins or lodes.
Sole leather, thick, strong, used for making the soles of boots and shoes, and for other purposes.



verb
Sole  v. t.  (past & past part. soled; pres. part. soling)  To furnish with a sole; as, to sole a shoe.






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"Sole" Quotes from Famous Books



... 1. Dum formae curandae intenta capillum in sole pectit, a marito per lusum leviter percussa furtirm superveniente virga, risu suborto, mi Landrice dixit, frontem vir fortis petet, &c. Marito conspecto attonita, cum Landrico mox in ejus mortem conspirat, et statim inter ...
— The Anatomy of Melancholy • Democritus Junior

... to thirty. They are planted in the thick of an uninhabited desert—their next neighbours being from two to five hundred miles off—their occasional visitors, bands of wandering Indians—and the sole object of their existence being to trade the furry hides of foxes, martens, beavers, badgers, bears, buffaloes, and wolves. It will not, then, be deemed a matter of wonder that the gentlemen who have charge of these establishments, ...
— The Young Fur Traders • R.M. Ballantyne

... Our chief recreation, our sole consolation, during the long weeks of our imprisonment, was to watch from our windows the pleasure-seekers passing by in small open boats, and to reflect what an awful day they had had, or were going to have, ...
— Novel Notes • Jerome K. Jerome

... universally appreciable. I should be carried too far out of my immediate topic were I to demonstrate a point upon which I have repeatedly insisted, and which, with the poetical, stands not in the slightest need of demonstration—the point, I mean, that Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem. A few words, however, in elucidation of my real meaning, which some of my friends have evinced a disposition to misrepresent. That pleasure which is at once the most intense, the most elevating, and the most pure, is, ...
— Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works • Edgar Allan Poe

... explained; and, as we gaze around the world, its material conditions and spiritual elements combine in one vast scheme of unrivalled order, and the total experience of humanity forms a magnificent picture of perfect poetic justice. We may easily account for the rise and spread of a theory whose sole difficulty is a lack of positive proof, but whose applications are so consistent and fascinating alike to imagination and to conscience. Hierocles said, and distinguished philosophers both before and since have said, "Without the doctrine of metempsychosis it is not possible to justify ...
— The Destiny of the Soul - A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life • William Rounseville Alger


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