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Definitions for: Sole
[n] right-eyed flatfish; many are valued as food; most common in warm seas especially European
[n] the underside of footwear or a golfclub
[n] the underside of the foot
[n] lean flesh of any of several flatfish
[v] put a new sole on; "sole the shoes"
Webster (1913) Definition: Sole, n. [F. sole, L. solea; -- so named from its flat
shape. See Sole of the foot.] (Zo["o]l.)
(a) Any one of several species of flatfishes of the genus
Solea and allied genera of the family Soleid[ae],
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, or French, sole (Zo["o]l.), a European species
of sole (Solea pegusa).
Smooth sole (Zo["o]l.), the megrim.
Sole, n. [AS. sole, fr. L. soolea (or rather an assumed
L. sola), akin to solumround, soil, sole of the foot. Cf.
Exile, Saloon, Soil earth, Sole the fish.]
1. The bottom of the foot; hence, also, rarely, the foot
itself.
The dove found no rest for the sole of her foot.
--Gen. viii.
9.
Hast wandered through the world now long a day, Yet
ceasest not thy weary soles to lead. --Spenser.
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. --Arbuthnot.
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.
--Totten.
(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.
Sole, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Soled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Soling.]
To furnish with a sole; as, to sole a shoe.
Sole, a. [L. solus, or OF. sol, F. seul (fr. L. solus;
cf. L. sollus whole, entire. Cf. Desolate, Solemn,
Solo, Sullen.]
1. Being or acting without another; single; individual; only.
``The sole son of my queen.'' --Shak.
He, be sure . . . first and last will reign Sole
king. --Milton.
2. (Law) Single; unmarried; as, a feme sole.
Corporation sole. See the Note under Corporation.
Syn: Single; individual; only; alone; solitary.
Synonyms: fillet of sole, resole
See Also: area, ball, bottom, bushel, club head, clubhead, doctor, English sole, English sole, European sole, family Soleidae, fillet of sole, fix, flatfish, flatfish, food fish, foot, footgear, footwear, furbish up, golfclub head, gray sole, half sole, hogchoker, human foot, innersole, insole, lemon sole, lemon sole, mend, outsole, Parophrys vitulus, pes, Psettichthys melanostichus, region, repair, restore, sand sole, shank, sole, sole, Solea lascaris, Solea solea, Soleidae, touch on, Trinectes maculatus, underside, undersurface, waist
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