n. One who receives pay, especially for military service.n. A person in military servicen. One who serves in the land forces, as opposed to one serving at sea.n. Hence, one who obeys the commands and contends in the cause of another.n. One of the rank and file, or sometimes including non-commissioned officers as opposed to commissioned officers.n. Emphatically, a brave warrior; a man of military experience, skill, or genius; a man of distinguished valor; one possessing the distinctive carriage, looks, habits, or traits of those who make a profession of military service: as, he is every inch a soldier.n. In zoology: One of that section of a colony of some kinds of ants which does the fighting, takes slaves, etc.; a soldier-ant.n. The corresponding form in a colony of white ants or termites.n. A soldier-beetle.n. A sort of hermit-crab; also, a fiddler-crab.n. The red gurnard, Trigla cuculus.n. A red herring.n. One who makes a pretense of working, but is really of little or no use; one who works no more than is necessary to secure pay. See soger, 2.n. plural A name of the red campion (Lychnis diurna), of the ribwort (Plantago lanceolata), and of various other plants. Britten and Holland, Eng. Plant Names.n. The stump, or unsmoked part, of a cigar. See snipe, 3.To serve as a soldier: as, to go soldiering.To bully; hector.To make a pretense or show of working, so as to be kept upon the pay-roll; shirk; feign sickness; malinger. See soger, 2.To make temporary use of (another man's horse).n. A scorpænoid fish, Gymnapistes marmoratus, of Tasmania.n. A labroid fish, Pseudolabrus miles, of New Zealand.n. A percoid fish, Etheostoma cœruleum, of the United States.n. An artificial fly used in bass-fishing.