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Solute (medicine)


solute
<chemistry> A substance that is dissolved in a solvent. One of the two parts (along with solvent) which make up a solution.


gander(1) (iou)



gander noun.
[Late Old English ganra, gandra, corresp. to Middle Low German ganre (Low German, Dutch gander), from Germanic base also of GANNET.]
A male goose. LOE.
Proverb: What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
A dull or stupid person; a fool, a simpleton. M16.
A look, a glance. Esp. in have a gander at, take a gander at. slang. E20.
J. Torrington A wee gander at the London Times now, the grown-ups' 'comic'. S. Turow Wash scowled again and took a gander over his shoulder.
Comb.: gander-month, gander-moon (long rare) the month after a wife's confinement.