Lexic.us

Definition of Solan

1. Noun. Very large white gannet with black wing tips.

Definition of Solan

1. a gannet [n -S] - See also: gannet

Lexicographical Neighbors of Solan

Literary usage of Solan

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Omniana; Or, Horae Otiosiores by Robert] [Southey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1812)
"solan Geese. A very odd argument was invented, to show that solan Geese might lawfully be eaten on fast days; and a still more extraordinary one was used in ..."

2. Illustrations of British Ornithology by Prideaux John Selby (1833)
"Cat . Dorset . 22.—Law's Faun. Orcad. 1*8. solan Goose ... J ALTHOUGH the Gannet (or, as it is more frequently called in Scotland, the solan Goose) deserts ..."

3. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1898)
"solan v. CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL RAILWAY COMPANY. [95 IOWA, 2CO.] NEGLIGENCE — CONTRACT AGAINST — INTERSTATE SHIPMENT.—A statute -which prohibits ..."

4. Reports of Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of the State of Oregon by Oregon Supreme Court (1900)
"solan, 169 US 133 (18 Sup. Ct. 289). The court having erred in discharging the plaintiff, it follows that the judgment is reversed and the cause remanded, ..."

5. Select Extra-tropical Plants Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture Or by Ferdinand von Mueller (1880)
"(G. religiosum, Banks and solan - der.) In several islands of the Pacific Ocean. A shrub. Petals white. Seeds disconnected, glabrous after the removal of ..."

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