Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Soluble

Soluble , adjective

[Latin solubilis, from solvere, solutum, to loosen, to dissolve: compare French soluble. See Solve, and compare 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. [Rare]
The bowels must be kept soluble. — Dunglison
Collocations (1)
Soluble glass (Chemistry) , See under Glass.