Using "#define" in .Xdefaults?

I was trying to use Ethan Schoonover's beautiful "Solarized" color scheme (http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized) with xterm, but have had some issues getting the provided .Xdefaults to work.

This (excerpt) doesn't work, and gives messages like "color name S_base03 is not defined":

Code:
#define S_base03        #002b36
#define S_base02        #073642
#define S_base01        #586e75
#define S_base00        #657b83

*background:            S_base03
*foreground:            S_base00

Using the hex values like this:

Code:
*background:            #002b36

works, but I'd prefer to not have to do it this way.

Am I missing something?
 
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