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Sole

adjective
1.
Not divided or shared with others.  Synonym: exclusive.  "Sole rights of publication"
2.
Being the only one; single and isolated from others.  Synonyms: lone, lonesome, only, solitary.  "A lonesome pine" , "An only child" , "The sole heir" , "The sole example" , "A solitary instance of cowardice" , "A solitary speck in the sky"
noun
1.
The underside of footwear or a golf club.
2.
Lean flesh of any of several flatfish.  Synonym: fillet of sole.
3.
The underside of the foot.
4.
Right-eyed flatfish; many are valued as food; most common in warm seas especially European.
verb
(past & past part. soled; pres. part. soling)
1.
Put a new sole on.  Synonym: resole.



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"Sole" Quotes from Famous Books



... powdered fennel, fenugreek and Cummin Oil are also much used. It is well to smear a little of the first mentioned oil near the traps, using any one of the other substances, or indeed a mixture of them all, for the trail. This may be made by smearing the preparation on the sole of the boots and walking in the direction of the traps, or by dragging from one trap to another a piece of meat scented with the substance, as described under the ...
— Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making • William Hamilton Gibson
... And I know it's not Mr. Outwood, to whom that cupboard happens to belong. If you wish to break it open, you must get his permission. He is the sole lessee and proprietor of that cupboard. I am ...
— Mike • P. G. Wodehouse
... celebrated his coronation as King of Pihiti at Pollanarrua, A.D. 1153, and two years later after reducing the refractory chiefs of Rohuna to obedience, he repeated the ceremonial by crowning himself "sole King of Lanka."[1] ...
— Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and • James Emerson Tennent
... asked at meals, which is by too many considered as a mere matter of form. They forget, that He who gives can also take away; and in their presumption, suppose their own ability and exertion to have been the sole means of procuring themselves a daily supply of food; thanking themselves rather than the Giver of all good. How many thousands are there who have been supplied with more than they require from their cradle down to their ...
— The Settlers in Canada • Frederick Marryat
... the houses behind, and had only the wall upon their right and the Nile upon their left, Trench sat down again. There was a crowd about the water's edge, men passed up and down between the crowd and them. Trench took his foot into his lap and examined the sole. But at the same time he unfolded the paper in the hollow of his hand and read the contents aloud. He could hardly read them, his voice so trembled. Feversham could hardly hear them, the blood so ...
— The Four Feathers • A. E. W. Mason


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