Sol"u*ble (?), a. [L. solubilis, fr. solvere, solutum, to loosen, to dissolve: cf. F. soluble. See Solve, and cf. Solvable.]
1.
Susceptible of being dissolved in a fluid; capable of solution; as, some substances are soluble in alcohol which are not soluble in water.
Sugar is . . . soluble in water and fusible in fire.
Arbuthnot.
2.
Susceptible of being solved; as, a soluble algebraic problem; susceptible of being disentangled, unraveled, or explained; as, the mystery is perhaps soluble.
"More
soluble is this knot."
Tennyson.
3.
Relaxed; open or readily opened.
[R.] "The bowels must be kept
soluble."
Dunglison.
Soluble glass. Chem. See under Glass.
© Webster 1913.