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solan|ˈsəʊlən|
Forms: α. 5– soland (7 sorland), 6 solande, -end, 7–8 solund. β. 6 solane, 7– solan; 8 sollen.
[f. ON. and Icel. súla (also Icel. hafsúla, Norw. havsula) gannet; the second element may be ON. ǫnd, and- (Norw., Sw., Da. and) duck. Originally Sc., but known to English writers from the middle of the 17th cent.]
1. The gannet (Sula bassana), a large sea-fowl resembling a goose, which frequents a few rocks and small islands of Britain, the Faeroes, Iceland, and Canada.
c1450Holland Howlat 700 The Soland [as] stewart was sent; For he couth fro the firmament Fang the fische deid. 1749Collins On Popular Superstit. x, Along the Atlantic rock, undreading climb, And of its eggs despoil the solan's nest. 1808Scott Marm. iii. iii, The rafters..Bore wealth of winter cheer; Of sea-fowl dried, and solands store. a1851Moir The Bass Rock ii, At times the solan's wing..Brushed near us. 1873Black Pr. Thule III. ix. 285 A white solan..struck the water as he dived.
2. attrib. with goose, = sense 1.
α1536Bellenden Chron. Scot. ix. (1541) B vj b, In it [the Bass Rock] ar incredible noumer of soland geis;.. And ar sene in na part of Albion, bot in this crag and Ailsay. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 55 The neist Ile named Elza..abundes in Solend geis, and monie vthiris sey foulis. 1651Cleveland Poems 37 A Scot, when from the Gallow-Tree got loose, Drops into Styx, and turns a Solund-Goose. 1678Butler Hud. iii. ii. 655 As Barnacles turn Soland-Geese In th' Islands of the Orcades. 1694Falle Jersey ii. 73 Here are to be seen the famous Sorland Geese, whose Equivocal Generation..is received by many amongst Us for Truth. 1710Sibbald Hist. Fife ii. 45 The Fowls which most frequent the Bass, are the Anseres Bassani or Soland-Geese. 1768Pennant Brit. Zool. I. Pref. p. v, The clouds of Soland geese which breed on the Bass island. 1821Sporting Mag. VII. 191 A Soland goose or gannet was shot by a fisherman of Southampton. 1843Yarrell Brit. Birds III. 381 The Gannet, or Soland Goose.
β1583Reg. Privy Council Scot. III. 624 To draw and alluir the auld solane geise to the boittis. 1668Charleton Onomast. 95 Anser Bassanus,..the Solan Goose. 1698M. Martin Voy. St. Kilda (1749) 4 A prodigious number of Solan Geese hatching in their Nests. 1725Portland Papers (Hist. MSS. Comm.) VI. 111 The Bass..I think has no inhabitants but the Solan geese which breed there. 1816Scott Antiq. vi, There was the relishing Solan goose, whose smell is so powerful that he is never cooked within doors. 1863Intellect. Obs. Sept. 118 The Solan Goose is not so numerous upon Ailsa as the puffin. |