? Obs. [ad. L. solvend-um, neut. gerundive of solvĕre SOLVE v.] Something to be dissolved.
1738. Phil. Trans., XLI. 108. The Particles of the Solvend having imbibed the Particles of the Menstruum.
1799. Kirwan, Geol. Ess., 467. A fluid whose specific affinity to the particles of a solvend is greater than the integrant affinity of the ultimate particles of the solvend to each other.
1867. Tomlinson’s Cycl. Useful Arts, App. 229/2. A saturated solution … is one in which the adhesion of the solvent and the cohesion of the solvend mutually balance each other.
