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Solvent   /sˈɑlvənt/   Listen
noun
Solvent  n.  (Chem.)
1.
A substance (usually liquid) suitable for, or employed in, solution, or in dissolving something; as, water is the appropriate solvent of most salts, alcohol of resins, ether of fats, and mercury or acids of metals, etc.
2.
That which resolves; as, a solvent of mystery.


adjective
Solvent  adj.  
1.
Having the power of dissolving; dissolving; as, a solvent fluid. "The solvent body."
2.
Able or sufficient to pay all just debts; as, a solvent merchant; the estate is solvent.





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"Solvent" Quotes from Famous Books



... in answer to his parent's explanations and apologies; "I do not suppose that what you have done makes any real difference. I have spent my life despising convention, occasionally defying it, and now it has overthrown me. Yes, sir, that is the true solvent of the situation; my morals have been weighed in ...
— King John of Jingalo - The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties • Laurence Housman
... perpetrator of the offence. A person may in certain cases be convicted as an abettor in the commission of an offence in which he or she could not be a principal, e.g. a woman or boy under fourteen years of age in aiding rape, or a solvent person in aiding and abetting a bankrupt to commit offences against the ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia
... mind is never ended. Then, with openness of soul, a man sees some way into all other souls that come near him, feels with them, has their experience, is in himself a people. Sympathy is the universal solvent. Nothing is understood without it. The capacity of a man, at least for understanding, may almost be said to vary according to his powers of sympathy. Again, what is there that can counteract selfishness like sympathy? Selfishness may be hedged in by minute ...
— Friends in Council (First Series) • Sir Arthur Helps
... reported that you have performed the wonderful, the impossible," Lindsay said; "that Llewellyn Stanhope goes home solvent." ...
— Hilda - A Story of Calcutta • Sara Jeannette Duncan
... assessor calls around to tender congratulations. It is eleven to seven that Georgie assures him that the Gould estate is in a very bad way, that only by the most heroic self-sacrifices in this period of business depression can he succeed in remaining solvent; that there was a slight advance in railway values while crops were moving, only to be succeeded by a doleful slump, caused by the high tariff, which cuts so dreadfully into tonnage. If he refrains from putting up some such ...
— Volume 10 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann


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