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Soldier
Soldier Sol"dier, v. i.
1. To serve as a soldier.
2. To make a pretense of doing something, or of performing
any task. [Colloq.U.S.]
Note: In this sense the vulgar pronounciation (s[=o]"j[~e]r)
is jocosely preserved.
It needs an opera glass to discover whether the
leaders are pulling, or only soldiering. --C. D.
Warner.
SoldierSoldier Sol"dier, n. [OE. souldier, soudiour, souder, OF.
soldier, soldoier, soldeier, sodoier, soudoier, soudier, fr.
L. solidus a piece of money (hence applied to the pay of a
soldier), fr. solidus solid. See Solid, and cf. Sold, n.]
1. One who is engaged in military service as an officer or a
private; one who serves in an army; one of an organized
body of combatants.
I am a soldier and unapt to weep. --Shak.
2. Especially, a private in military service, as
distinguished from an officer.
It were meet that any one, before he came to be a
captain, should have been a soldier. --Spenser.
3. A brave warrior; a man of military experience and skill,
or a man of distinguished valor; -- used by way of
emphasis or distinction. --Shak.
4. (Zo["o]l.) The red or cuckoo gurnard (Trigla pini.)
[Prov. Eng.]
5. (Zo["o]l.) One of the asexual polymorphic forms of white
ants, or termites, in which the head and jaws are very
large and strong. The soldiers serve to defend the nest.
See Termite.
Soldier beetle (Zo["o]l.), an American carabid beetle
(Chauliognathus Americanus) whose larva feeds upon other
insects, such as the plum curculio.
Soldier bug (Zo["o]l.), any hemipterous insect of the genus
Podisus and allied genera, as the spined soldier bug
(Podius spinosus). These bugs suck the blood of other
insects.
Soldier crab (Zo["o]l.)
(a) The hermit crab.
(b) The fiddler crab.
Soldier fish (Zo["o]l.), a bright-colored etheostomoid fish
(Etheostoma c[oe]ruleum) found in the Mississippi River;
-- called also blue darter, and rainbow darter.
Soldier fly (Zo["o]l.), any one of numerous species of
small dipterous flies of the genus Stratyomys and allied
genera. They are often bright green, with a metallic
luster, and are ornamented on the sides of the back with
markings of yellow, like epaulets or shoulder straps.
Soldier moth (Zo["o]l.), a large geometrid moth (Euschema
militaris), having the wings bright yellow with bluish
black lines and spots.
Soldier orchis (Bot.), a kind of orchis (Orchis
militaris).
Meaning of Soldiers from wikipedia
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Black soldiers continued to serve, but in
segregated units,
often subjected to
physical and
verbal racist abuse. The term "Buffalo
Soldiers" was applied...
- June 1991 to 9
December 1997. It
featured the
daily lives of a
group of
soldiers in 'A' Company, 1st
Battalion The King's Fusiliers, a
fictional British...
- The
Soldiers is a
singing trio
consisting of
serving British Army
soldiers,
whose debut album,
Coming Home, was
released on 26
October 2009, and who have...
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quotations related to
Small Soldiers.
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invention of a
device for
cutting bread into
soldiers.
Shaped cutters to
produce soldiers shaped like
human soldiers are also available.
There is an
early reference...
- was
changed to
Soldier Field, in
dedication to U.S.
soldiers who had died in
combat during World War I. Its
formal rededication as
Soldier Field was held...
-
describing soldiers who
march and
fight on foot. The word
derives from
Middle French infanterie, from
older Italian (also Spanish)
infanteria (foot
soldiers too...
- both
soldiers and
sailors may
refer to (alphabetized by
state and locale):
Soldiers' and Sailors'
Memorial Arch (Hartford, Connecticut)
Soldiers and Sailors...
- "cursed
soldiers" (also
known as "doomed
soldiers", "accursed
soldiers", or "****ed
soldiers"; Polish: żołnierze wyklęci) or "indomitable
soldiers" (Polish:...
- also
titled Soldier of Fortune,
featuring Brandon Lee and
Ernest Borgnine Soldiers of
Fortune (1919 film), a lost
American silent drama Soldiers of Fortune...
