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Webster 1913 Edition


Soliped

Sol′i-ped

,
Noun.
[Cf. F.
solipède
, It.
solipede
, Sp.
solipedo
; apparently fr. L.
solus
alone +
pes
,
pedis
, a foot; but probably fr. L.
solidipes
solid-footed, whole-hoofed. See
Solid
, and
Pedal
.]
(Zool.)
A mammal having a single hoof on each foot, as the horses and asses; a solidungulate.
[Written also
solipede
.]
The
solipeds
, or firm-hoofed animals, as horses, asses, and mules, etc., – they are, also, in mighty number.
Sir T. Browne.

Webster 1828 Edition


Soliped

SOL'IPED

,
Noun.
[L. solus, alone, or solidus, and pes, foot. But the word is ill formed.] AN animal whose foot is not cloven. The solopeds constitute an order of quadrupeds with undivided hoofs, corresponding to the Linnean genus Equus.