[sol-i-tair] 
| 1. | Also called patience. any of various games played by one person with one or more regular 52-card packs, part or all of which are usually dealt out according to a given pattern, the object being to arrange the cards in a predetermined manner. |
| 2. | a game played by one person alone, as a game played with marbles or pegs on a board having hollows or holes. |
| 3. | a precious stone, esp. a diamond, set by itself, as in a ring. |
| 4. | any of several American thrushes of the genus Myadestes, having short, broad bills and noted for their beautiful songs. |
| 5. | a large extinct flightless bird of the genus Pezophaps, related to the dodo but with a longer neck, smaller bill, and longer legs, that inhabited the Mascarene Islands. |
| sol·i·taire (sŏl'ĭ-târ') n.
[French, solitary, from Old French; see solitary.] |
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