Solace /(?)/

1. Comfort in grief; alleviation of grief or anxiety; also, that which relieves in distress; that which cheers or consoles; relief.

   In business of mirth and of solace.

   The proper solaces of age are not music and compliments, but wisdom and devotion.

2. Rest; relaxation; ease. [Obs.]

   To make his steed some solace.

imp. & p. p. Solaced; p. pr. & vb. n. Solacing

1. To cheer in grief or under calamity; to comfort; to relieve in affliction, solitude, or discomfort; to console; -- applied to persons; as, to solace one with the hope of future reward.
2. To allay; to assuage; to soothe; as, to solace grief.

1. To take comfort; to be cheered.