sb. and a. Obs. [See prec. and -ORY. So OF. solutoire.]
A. sb. = SOLUTIVE sb. 1.
1561. Hollybush, Hom. Apoth., 26 b. If one … were so bounde in hys belly that he could have no sieges, then make him thys solutorye.
B. adj. Used for dissolving or melting.
1650. Ashmole, Arcanum (ed. 3), 255. Dissolve it into Water in a solutory Vessell.
1678. R. Russell, Geber, V. vi. 276. The Solutory or Dissolving Furnace.
