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Somehow

SOMEHOW, adverb [some and how.] One way or other; on some way not yet known. The thing must have happened somehow or other.

Somersault

SOM'ERSAULT, SOM'ERSET, noun [L super and salio, to leap.] A leap by which a person jumps from a highth, turns over his head and falls upon his feet.

Somerset

SOM'ERSAULT, SOM'ERSET, noun [L super and salio, to leap.] A leap by which a person jumps from a highth, turns over his head and falls upon his feet.

Something

SOMETHING, noun [some and thing.]

1. An indeterminate or unknown event. something must have happened to prevent the arrival of our friends at the time fixed. I shall call at two o'clock, unless something should prevent. [See Thing.]

2. A substance or material thing, unknown indeterminate or not specified. A machine stops because something obstructs its motion. There must be something to support a wall or an arch.

3. A part; a portion more or less. something yet of doubt remains. Still from his little he could something spare, to feed the hungry and to clothe the bare. something of it arises from our infant state.

4. A little; an indefinite quantity or degree. The man asked me a dollar, but I gave him something more.

5. Distance not great. It must be done tonight, and something from the palace.

6. something is used adverbially for in some degree; as, he was something discouraged; but the use in not elegant.

Sometime

SOMETIME, adverb [some and time.]

1. Once; formerly. That fair and warlike form, in which the majesty of buried Denmark did sometime march.

2. At one time or other hereafter. [Sometime is really a compound noun, and at is understood before it; at some time.]

Sometimes

SOMETIMES, adverb [some and times.]

1. At times; at intervals; not always; not and then. We are sometimes indisposed, sometimes occupied, sometimes at leisure; that is, at some times. It is good that we be sometimes contradicted.

2. At one time; opposed to another time.

Somewhat

SOMEWHAT, noun [some and what.]

1. Something, though uncertain what.

2. More or less; a certain quantity or degree, indeterminate. These salts have somewhat of a nitrous taste.

3. A part, greater or less. somewhat of his good sense will suffer in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost.

SOMEWHAT, adverb In some degree or quantity. This is somewhat more or less than was expected; he is somewhat aged; he is somewhat disappointed; somewhat disturbed.

Somewhere

SOMEWHERE, adverb [some and where.] In some place, unknown or not specified; in one place or another. He lives somewhere in obscurity. Dryden somewhere says peace to the manes of the dead.

Somewhile

SOMEWHILE, adverb [some and while.] Once; for a time.

Somewhiter

SOMEWHITER, adverb To some indeterminate place.

Sommite

SOM'MITE, noun Nepheline; a mineral which occurs in small crystals and crystaline grains in the lava of mount Somma on Vesuvius.

Somnambulation

SOMNAMBULA'TION, noun [Latin somnus, sleep, and ambulo, to walk.] The act of walking in sleep.

Somnambulist

SOMNAM'BULIST, noun A person who walks in his sleep.

Somner

SOMNER, for summoner. [Not in use.]

Somniferous

SOMNIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin somnifer; somnus, sleep, and fero, to bring.] Causing or inducing sleep; soporiferous; narcotic; as a somniferous potion.

Somnific

SOMNIF'IC, adjective [Latin somnus, sleep, and facio, to make.] Causing sleep; tending to induce sleep.

Somnolence

SOM'NOLENCE, SOM'NOLENCY, noun [Low Latin somnolentia; for somnus, sleep.] Sleepiness; drowsiness; inclination to sleep.

Somnolency

SOM'NOLENCE, SOM'NOLENCY, noun [Low Latin somnolentia; for somnus, sleep.] Sleepiness; drowsiness; inclination to sleep.

Somnolent

SOM'NOLENT, adjective Sleepy; drowsy; inclined to sleep.

Son

SON, noun

1. A male child; the male issue of a parent, father or mother. Jacob had twelve sons. Ishmael was the son of Hagar by Abraham.

2. A male descendant, however distant; hence in the plural, sons signifies descendants in general, a sense much used in the Scriptures. The whole human race are styled sons of Adam.

3. The compellation of an old man to a young one, or of a confessor to his penitent; a term of affection. Eli called Samuel his son Be plain, good son and home; y in thy drift.

4. A native or inhabitant of a country; as the sons of Britain. Let our country never be ashamed of her sons.

5. The produce of any thing. Earth's tall sons, the cedar, oak and pine. [Note. The primary sense of child is produce, issue; a shoot.]

6. One adopted into a family. Moses was the son of Pharaoh's daughter. Exodus 2:2.

7. One who is converted by another's instrumentality, is called his son; also, one educated by another; as the sons of the prophets.

8. Christ is called the son of God, as being conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit, or in consequence of his relation to the Father.

9. son of pride, sons of light, son of Belial. These are Hebraisms, which denote that persons possess the qualities of pride, of light, or of Belial, as children inherit the qualities of their ancestors.

Son-In-Law

SON-IN-LAW, noun A man married to one's daughter.

Sonata

SON'ATA, noun A tune intended for an instrument only, as cantata is for the voice.

Song

SONG, noun

1. In general, that which is sung or uttered with musical modulations of the voice, whether of the human voice or that of a bird.

2. A little poem to be sung, or uttered with musical modulations; a ballad. The songs of a country are characteristic of its manners. Every country has its love songs, its war songs, and its patriotic songs.

3. A hymn; a sacred poem or hymn to be sung either in joy or thanksgiving, as that sung by Moses and the Israelites after escaping the dangers of the Arabian gulf and of Pharaoh; or of lamentation, as that of David over the death of Saul and Jonathan. Songs of joy are represented as constituting a part of heavenly felicity.

4. A lay; a strain; a poem. The bard that first adorn'd our native tongue, tun'd to his British lyre this ancient song

5. Poetry; poesy; verse. This subject for heroic song pleas'd me.

6. Notes of birds. [See Def. 1.]

7. A mere trifle. The soldier's pay is a song Old song a trifle. I do not intend to be thus put off with an old song

Songish

SONG'ISH, adjective Consisting of songs. [Low and Not in use.]

Songster

SONG'STER, noun

1. One that sings; one skilled in singing; not often applied to human beings, or only in slight contempt.

2. A bird that sings; as the little songster in his cage. [In this use, the word is elegant.]

Songstress

SONG'STRESS, noun A female singer.

Sonnet

SON'NET, noun

1. A short poem of fourteen lines, two stanzas of four verses each and two of three each, the chymes being adjusted by a particular rule.

2. A short poem. I have a sonnet that will serve the turn.

SON'NET, verb intransitive To compose sonnets.

Sonneteer

SONNETEE'R, noun A composer of sonnets or small poems; a small poet; usually in contempt.

Sonometer

SONOM'ETER, noun [Latin sonus, sound, and fero, to measure.] An instrument for measuring sounds or the intervals of sounds.

Sonoriferous

SONORIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin sonus, sound and fero, to bring.] That gives sound; sounding; as the sonoriferous particles of bodies.

Sonorific

SONORIF'IC, adjective [Latin sonus, sound and fecio, to make.] Producing sound; as the sonorific quality of a body.

Sonorous

SONO'ROUS, adjective [Latin sonorus, from sonus, sound.]

1. Giving sound when struck. Metals are sonorous bodies.

2. Loud sounding; giving a clear or loud sound; as a sonorous voice.

3. Yielding sound; as, the vowels are sonorous

4. High sounding; magnificent of sound. The Italian opera, amidst all the meanness and familiarity of the thoughts, has something beautiful and sonorous in the expression.

Sonorously

SONO'ROUSLY, adverb With sound; with a high sound.

Sonorousness

SONO'ROUSNESS, noun

1. The quality of yielding sound when struck or coming in collision with another body; as the sonorousness of metals.

2. Having or giving a loud or clear sound; as the sonorousness of a voice or an instrument.

3. Magnificence of sound.

Sonship

SONSHIP, noun [from son.]

1. The state of being a son, or of having the relation of a son.

2. Filiation; the character of a son.

Soon

SOON, adverb

1. In a short time; shortly after any time specified or supposed; as soon after sunrise; soon after dinner; I shall soon return; we shall soon have clear weather.

2. Early; without the usual delay; before any time supposed. How is it that ye have come so soon to-day? Exodus 2:18.

3. Readily; willingly. But in this sense it accompanies would, or some other word expressing will. I would as soon see a river winding among woods or in meadows, as when it is tossed up in so many whimsical figures at Versailles.

AS soon AS, SO soon AS, immediately at or after another event. As soon as the mail arrives, I will inform you. As soon as Moses came nigh to the camp, he saw the calf and the dancing. Exodus 32:19.

SOON, adjective Speedy; quick. [Not in use.]

Soonly

SOONLY, adverb quickly; speedily. [Not in use.]

Sooshong

SOOSHONG', SOUCHONG', noun A kind of black tea.

Soosoo

SOO'SOO, noun Among the Bengalese, the mane of a cetaceous fish, the Delphinus Gangeticus.

Soot

SOOT, noun A black substance formed by combustion, or disengaged from fuel in the process of combustion, rising in fine particles and adhering to the sides of the chimney or pipe conveying the smoke. soot consists of oil, carbon and other substances. The soot of burnt pine forms lampblack.

SOOT, verb transitive To cover or foul with soot

Sooted

SOOT'ED, participle passive Covered or soiled with soot.

Sooterkin

SOOT'ERKIN, noun A kind of false birth fabled to be produced by the Dutch women from sitting over their stoves.

Sooth

SOOTH, noun

1. Truth; reality.

2. Prognostication.

3. Sweetness; kindness.

SOOTH, adjective

1. Pleasing; delightful.

2. True; faithful.

Soothe

SOOTHE, verb transitive [The sense of setting, allaying of softening, would give that of truth, and of sweet, that is, smooth.]

1. To flatter; to please with blandishments or soft words. Can I soothe tyranny? I've tried the force of every reason on him. Sooth'd and caress'd, been angry, sooth'd again

2. To soften; to assuage; to mollify; to calm; as, to soothe one in pain or passion; or to soothe pain. It is applied both to persons and things.

3. To gratify; to please. Sooth'd with his future fame.

Soothed

SOOTH'ED, participle passive Flattered; softened; calmed; pleased.

Soother

SOOTH'ER, noun A flatterer; he or that which softens or assuages.

Soothing

SOOTH'ING, participle present tense Flattering; softening; assuaging.

Soothingly

SOOTH'INGLY, adverb With flattery or soft words.

Soothly

SOOTH'LY, adverb In truth; really.

Soothsay

SOOTH'SAY, verb intransitive [sooth and say.] To foretell; to predict. Acts 16:1. [Little used.]

Soothsayer

SOOTH'SAYER, noun A foreteller; a prognosticator; one who undertakes to foretell future events without inspiration.

Soothsaying

SOOTH'SAYING, noun The foretelling of future events by persons without divine aid or authority, and thus distinguished form prophecy.

Sootiness

SOOT'INESS, noun [from sooty.] The quality of being sooty or foul with soot; fuliginousness.

Sootish

SOOT'ISH, adjective Partaking of soot; like soot.

Sooty

SOOT'Y, adjective

1. Producing soot; as sooty coal.

2. Consisting of soot; fuliginons; as sooty matter.

3. Foul with soot.

4. Black like soot; dusky; dark; as the sooty flag of Acheron.

SOOT'Y, verb transitive To black or foul with soot. [Not authorized.]

Sop

SOP, noun

1. Anything steeped or dipped and softened in liquor, but chiefly something thus dipped in broth or liquid food, and intended to be eaten. Sops in win, quantity for quantity, inebriate more than win itself.

2. Any thing given to pacify; so called from the sop given to Cerberus, in mythology. Hence the phrase, to give a sop to Cerberus.

Sop-In-Wine

SOP-IN-WINE, a kind of pink.

SOP, verb transitive To steep or dip in liquor.

Sope

SOPE, [See Soap.]

Soph

SOPH, noun [Latin sophista.] In colleges and universities, a student in his second year; a sophomore.

Sophi

SO'PHI, noun A title of the king of Persia.

Sophical

SOPH'ICAL, adjective Teaching wisdom. [Not in use.]

Sophism

SOPH'ISM, noun [Latin sophisma.] A specious but fallacious argument; asubtilty in reasoning; an argument that is not supported by sound reasoning , or in which the inference is not justly deduced from the premises. When a false argument puts on the appearance of a true one, then it is properly called a sophism or fallacy.

Sophist

SOPH'IST, noun [Latin sophista.]

1. A professor of philosophy; as the sophists of Greece.

2. A captious or fallacious reasoner.

Sophister

SOPH'ISTER, noun [supra.]

1. A disputant fallaciously subtil; an artful but insidious logician; as an atheistical sophister Not all the subtil objection of sophisters and rabbies against the gospel, so much prejudiced the reception of it, as the reproach of those crimes with which they aspersed the assemblies of Christians.

2. A professor of philosophy; a sophist.

SOPH'ISTER, verb transitive To maintain by a fallacious argument. [Not in use.]

Sophistic

SOPHIST'IC, SOPHIST'ICAL, adjective Fallaciously subtil; not sound; as sophistical reasoning or argument.

Sophistical

SOPHIST'IC, SOPHIST'ICAL, adjective Fallaciously subtil; not sound; as SOPHISTICAL reasoning or argument.

Sophistically

SOPHIST'ICALLY, adverb With fallacious subtilty.

Sophisticate

SOPHIST'ICATE, verb transitive

1. To adulterate; to corrupt by something spurious or foreign; to pervert; as, to sophisticate nature, philosophy or the understanding.

2. To adulterate; to render spurious; as merchandise; as, to sophisticate wares or liquors. They purchase but sophisticated ware.

SOPHIST'ICATE, adjective Adulterated; not pure; not genuine. So truth, when only one supplied the state, grew scarce and dear, and hey sophisticate

Sophistication

SOPHISTICA'TION, noun The act of adulterating; a counterfeiting or debasing the purity of some thing be a foreign admixture; adulteration.

Sophisticator

SOPHIST'ICATOR, noun One that adulterates; one who injures the purity and genuineness of any thing by foreign admixture.

Sophistry

SOPH'ISTRY, noun

1. Fallacious reasoning; reasoning sound in appearance only. These men have obscured and confounded the nature of things by their false principles and wretched sophistry

2. Exercise in logic.

Sophomore

SOPH'OMORE, noun [See Soph.] A student in a college or university, in his second year.

Sopite

SO'PITE, verb transitive To lay asleep. [Not in use.]

Sopition

SOPI'TION, noun [Latin sopio, to lay asleep.] Sleep. [Not in use.]

Soporate

SOP'ORATE, verb transitive [Latin soporo.] To lay asleep. [Not in use.]

Soporiferous

SOPORIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin soporifer; sopor, asleep, and fero, to bring; from sopio, to lull to sleep.] Causing sleep, or tending to produce it; narcotic; opiate; anodyne; somniferous. The poppy pssesses soporiferous qualities.

Soporiferousness

SOPORIF'EROUSNESS, noun The quality of causing sleep.

Soporific

SOPORIF'IC, adjective [Latin sopor, sleep, and facio, to make.] Causing sleep; tending to cause sleep; narcotic; as the soporific virtues of opium.

SOPORIF'IC, noun A medicine, drug, plant or other thing that has the quality of inducing sleep.

Soporous

SO'POROUS, adjective [Latin soporus, from sopor, sleep.] Causing sleep; sleepy.

Sopped

SOP'PED, participle passive [from sop.] Dipped in liquid food.

Sopper

SOP'PER, noun [from sop.] One that sops or dips in liquor some thing to be eaten.

Sorably

SOR'ABLY, adverb Suitably; fitly.

Sorb

SORB, noun [Latin sorbum, sorbus.] The service tree or its fruit .

Sorbate

SOR'BATE, noun A compound of sorbic acid with a base.

Sorbent

SORB'ENT. [See absorbent.]

Sorbic

SORB'IC, adjective Pertaining to the sorbus or service tree; as sorbic acid.

Sorbile

SORB'ILE, adjective [Latin sorbeo.] That may be drank or sipped. [Not in use.]

SORBI'TION, noun [Latin sorbitio.] The act or drinking or sipped. [Not in use.]

Sorbonical

SORBON'ICAL, adjective Belonging to a sorbonist.

Sorbonist

SOR'BONIST, noun A doctor of the Sorbonne in the university of Paris. Sorbonne is the place of meeting, and hence is used for the whole faculty of theology.

Sorcerer

SOR'CERER, [Latin sors, lot.] A conjurer; an enchanter; a magician. The Egyptian sorcerers contended with Moses.

Sorceress

SOR'CERESS, noun A female magician or enchantress.

Sorcerous

SOR'CEROUS, adjective Containing enchantments.

Sorcery

SOR'CERY, noun Magic; enchantment; witchcraft; divination be the assistance of evil spirits, or the power of commanding evil spirits. Adder's wisdom I have learn'd to fence my ears against the sorceries.

Sord

SORD, for sward, is not vulgar. [See Sward.]

Sordawalite

SORD'AWALITE, noun A mineral so named from Sordawald, in Wibourg. It is nearly black, rarely gray or green.

Sordes

SOR'DES, noun [Latin] Foul matter; excretions; dregs; filthy, useless or rejected matter of any kind.

Sordet

SOR'DET, SOR'DINE, noun [Latin surdus, deaf.] A little pipe in the mouth of a trumpet to make it sound lower or shriller.

Sordid

SOR'DID, adjective [Latin sordidus, form sordes, filth.]

1. Filthy; foul; dirty; gross. There Charon stands a sordid god. [This literal sense is nearly obsolete.]

2. Vile; base; mean; as vulgar, sordid mortals.

3. Meanly avaricious; covetous; niggardly. He may be old and yet not sordid who refuses gold.

Sordidly

SOR'DIDLY, adverb Meanly; basely; covetously.

Sordidness

SOR'DIDNESS, noun

1. Filthiness; dirtiness.

2. Meanness; baseness; as the execrable sordidness of the delights of Tiberius.

3. Niggardliness.

Sordine

SOR'DET, SOR'DINE, noun [Latin surdus, deaf.] A little pipe in the mouth of a trumpet to make it sound lower or shriller.

Sore

SORE, noun

1. A place in an animal body where the skin and flesh are ruptured or bruised, so as to be pained with the slightest pressure.

2. An ulcer; a boil.

3. In Scriptures, grief; affliction. 2 Chronicles 6:28.

SORE, adjective

1. Tender and susceptible of pain from pressure; as, a boil, ulcer or abscess is very sore; a wounded place is sore; inflammation renders a part sore

2. Tender, as the mind; easily pained, grieved or vexed; very susceptible of irritation from any thing that crosses the inclination. Malice and hatred are very fretting, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy.

3. Affected with inflammation; as sore eyes.

4. Violent with pain; severe; afflictive; distressing; as a sore disease; sore evil or calamity; a sore night.

5. Severe; violent; as a sore conflict.

6. Criminal; evil.

SORE, adverb

1. With painful violence; intensely; severely; grievously. They hand presseth me sore

2. Greatly; violently; deeply. He was sorely afflicted at the loss of his son. sore sigh'd the knight, who this long sermon heard.

SORE, verb transitive To wound; to make sore

SORE, noun A hawk of the first year.

Sorehon

SOREHON, SORN, noun A kind of servile tenure which subjected the tenant to maintain his chieftain gratuitously, whenever he wished to indulge himself in a debauch. So that when a person obtrudes himself on another for bed and board, he is said to sorn, or be a sorner.

Sorel

SOR'EL, noun [dim. of sore.] A buck of the third year.

Sorely

SO'RELY, adverb [from sore.]

1. With violent pain and distress; grievously; greatly; as, to be sorely pained or afflicted.

2. Greatly; violently; severely; as, to be sorely pressed with want; to be sorely wounded.

Soreness

SO'RENESS, noun [from sore.]

1. The tenderness of any part of an animal body, which renders it extremely susceptible of pain from pressure; as the soreness of a boil, an abscess or wound.

2. Figuratively, tenderness of mind, or susceptibility of mental pain.

Sorgo

SOR'GO, noun A plant of the genus Holcus.

Sorites

SORI'TES, noun In logic, an argument where one proposition is accumulated on another. Thus, all men of revenge have their souls often uneasy. Uneasy souls are a plague to themselves. Now to be one's own plague is folly in the extreme.

Sorn

SOREHON, SORN noun A kind of servile tenure which subjected the tenant to maintain his chieftain gratuitously, whenever he wished to indulge himself in a debauch. So that when a person obtrudes himself on another for bed and board, he is said to SORN or be a sorner.

Sororicide

SOROR'ICIDE, noun [Latin soror, sister, and cado, to strike, to kill.] The murder or murderer of a sister. [Little used, and obviously because the crime is very infrequent.

Sorrage

SOR'RAGE, noun The blades of green wheat or barley. [Not used.]

Sorrance

SOR'RANCE, noun In farriery, any disease or sore in horses.

Sorrel

SOR'REL, adjective Of a reddish color; as a sorel horse.

SOR'REL, noun A reddish color; a faint red.

SOR'REL, noun A plant of the genus Rumex, so named from its acid taste. The wood sorrel is of the genus Oxalis. The Indian red and Indian white sorrels are of the genus Hibiscus.

Sorrel-Tree

SOR'REL-TREE, noun A species of Andromeda.

Sorrily

SOR'RILY, adverb [from sorry.] Meanly; despicably; pitiably; in a wretched manner. Thy pipe, O Pan, shall help though I sing sorrily

Sorriness

SOR'RINESS, noun Meanness; poorness; despicableness.

Sorrow

SOR'ROW, noun The uneasiness or pain of mind which is produced by the loss of any good. or of frustrated hopes of good, or expected loss of happiness; to grieve; to be sad. I rejoice not that ye were made sorry, but the ye sorrowed to repentance. I Cor. 7. Sorrowing most of all for the words which be spoke, that they should see his face no more. Acts 20:1.

Sorrowed

SOR'ROWED, participle passive Accompanied with sorrow. [Not in use.]

Sorrowful

SOR'ROWFUL, adjective

1. Sad; grieving for the loss of some good, or on account of some expected evil.

2. Deeply serious; depressed; dejected. I Sam. 1.

3. Producing sorrow; exciting grief; mournful; as a sorrowful accident.

4. Expressing grief; accompanied with grief; as sorrowful meat. Job 6:7.

Sorrowfully

SOR'ROWFULLY, adverb In a sorrowful manner; in a manner to produce grief.

Sorrowfulness

SOR'ROWFULNESS, noun State of being sorrowful; grief.

Sorrowing

SOR'ROWING, participle present tense Feeling sorrow, grief or regret.

SOR'ROWING, noun Expression of sorrow.

Sorrowless

SOR'ROWLESS, adjective Free from sorrow.

Sorry

SOR'RY, adjective

1. Grieved for the loss of some good; pained for some evil that has happened to one's self or friends or country. It does not ordinarily imply severe grief, but rather slight or transient regret. It may be however, and often is used to express deep grief. We are sorry to lose the company of those we love; we are sorry to lose friends or property; we are sorry for the misfortunes of our friends or of out country. And the king was sorry Matthew 14:9.

2. Melancholy; dismal.

3. Poor; mean; vile; worthless; as a sorry slave; a sorry excuse. Coarse complexions, and cheeks of sorry grain-

Sort

SORT, noun [Latin sors, lot, chance, state, way, sort This word is form the root of Latin sortior; the radical sense of which is to start or shoot, to throw or to fall, to come suddenly. Hence sore is lot, chance, that which comes or falls. This sense of sort is probably derivative, signifying that which is thrown out, separated or selected.]

1. A kind or species; any number or collection of individual persons or thing characterized by the same or like qualities; as a sort of men; a sort of horses; a sort of trees; a sort of poems or writings. sort is not a technical word, and therefore is used with less precision or more latitude than genus or species in the sciences.

2. Manner; form of being or acting. Flowers, in such sort worn, can neither be smelt not seen well by those that wear them. To Adam in what sort shall I appear?

3. Class or order; as men of the wiser sort or the better sort; all sorts of people. [See Def. 1.]

4. Rank; condition above the vulgar. [Not in use.]

5. A company or knot of people. [Not in use.]

6. Degree of any quality. I shall not be wholly without praise, if in some sort I have copied his style.

7. Lot.

8. A pair; a set; a suit.

SORT, verb transitive

1. To separate, as things having like qualities from other things, and place them in distinct classes or divisions; as, to sort cloths according to their colors; to sort wool or thread according to its fineness. Shell fish have been, be some of the ancients, compared and sorted with insects. Rays which differ in refrangibility may be parted and sorted from one another.

2. To reduce to order from a state of confusion. [See supra.]

3. To conjoin; to put together in distribution. The swain perceiving by her word ill sorted, that she was wholly from herself transported-

4. To cull; to choose from a number; to select. That he may sort her out a worthy spouse.

SORT, verb intransitive

1. To be joined with others of the same species. Nor do metals only sort with metals in the earth, and minerals with minerals.

2. To consort; to associate. The illiberality of parents towards children, makes them base and sort with any company.

3. To suit; to fit. They are happy whose natures sort with their vocations.

4. To terminate; to issue; to have success. [Not in use.]

5. To fall out. [Not in use.]

Sortable

SORT'ABLE, adjective

1. That may be sorted.

2. Suitable; befitting.

Sortal

SORT'AL, adjective Pertaining to or designating a sort. [Not in use.]

Sortance

SORT'ANCE, noun Suitableness; agreement. [Not in use.]

Sortilege

SORT'ILEGE, noun [Latin sortilegium; sors, lot, and lego, to select.] The act or practice of drawing lots. [Sortilegy is not used.]

Sortilegious

SORTILEGIOUS, adjective Pertaining to sortilege.

SORTI'TION, [Latin sortitio.] Selection or appointment by lot.

Sortment

SORT'MENT, noun

1. The act of sorting; distribution into classes of kinds.

2. A parcel sorted. [This word is superseded by assortment, which see.]

Sory

SORY, noun A fossil substance, firm, but of a spungy, cavernous structure, rugged on the surface, and containing blue vitriol; a sulphate of iron.

Soss

SOSS, verb intransitive [This word is probably connected with the Armoric souez, surprise, the primary sense of which is to fall. See Souse.] To fall at once into a chair or seat; to sit lazily. [Not in use.]

Sot

SOT, noun

1. A stupid person; a blockhead; a dull fellow; a dolt.

2. A person stupefied by excessive drinking; an habitual drunkard. What can ennoble sots?

SOT, verb transitive To stupefy; to infatuate; to besot. I hat to see a brave bold bellow sotted. [Not much used.] [See Besot.]

SOT, verb intransitive To tipple to stupidity. [Little used.]

Sothernwood

SOTHERNWOOD, noun suth'ernwood, A plant agreeing in most parts with the wormwood. The southernwood is the Artemisia abrotanum, a different species form the wormwood.

Sottish

SOT'TISH, adjective

1. Dull; stupid; senseless; doltish; very foolish. How ignorant are sottish pretenders to astrology!

2. Dull with intemperance.

Sottishly

SOT'TISHLY, adverb Stupidly; senselessly; without reason.

Sottishness

SOT'TISHNESS, noun

1. Dullness in the exercise reason; stupidity. Few consider into what a degree of sottishness and confirmed ignorance men may sin themselves.

2. Stupidity from intoxication.

Sou

SOU, noun plural sous. A French money of account, and a copper coin, in value the 20th part of a livre or of a franc.

Souchong

SOOSHONG', SOUCHONG', noun A kind of black tea.

Sough

SOUGH, noun suf. A subterraneous drain; a sewer. [Not in use.]

Sought

SOUGHT, pret and participle passive of seek, pron, sawt. I am found of them who sought me not. Isaiah 65:1.

Soul

SOUL, noun

1. The spiritual, rational and immortal substance in man, which distinguishes him from brutes; that part of man which enables him to think and reason, and which renders him a subject of moral government. The immortality of the soul is a fundamental article of the christian system. Such is the nature of the human soul that it must have a God, an object of supreme affection.

2. The understanding; the intellectual principle. The eyes of our soul then only begin to see, when our bodily eye are closing.

3. Vital principle. Thou son, of this great world both eye and soul

4. Spirit; essence; chief part; as charity, the soul of all the virtues. Emotion is the soul of eloquence.

5. Life; animation principle or part; as, an able commander is the soul of an army.

6. Internal power. There is some soul of goodness in things evil.

7. A human being; a person. There was no a soul present. In Paris there are more than seven hundred thousand souls. London, Westminster, Southwark and the suburbs, are said to contain twelve hundred thousand souls.

8. Animal life. To deliver their soil from death, and to keep them alive in famine. Psalms 33:7.

9. Active power. And heaven would fly before the driving soul

10. Spirit; courage; fire; grandeur of mind. That he wants caution he must needs confess, but not a soul to give our arms success.

11. Generosity; nobleness of mind; a colloquial use.

12. An intelligent being. Every soul in heav'n shall bend the knee.

13. Heart; affection. The soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David. I Sam. 18.

14. In Scripture, appetite; as the full soul; the hungry soul Proverbs 27:7. Job 33:18.

15. A familiar compellation of a person, but often expressing some qualities of the mind; as alas, poor soul; he was a good soul

SOUL, verb transitive To endure with a soul [Not in use.]

SOUL, SOWL, verb intransitive To afford suitable sustenance. [Not in use.]

Soul-Bell

SOUL-BELL, noun The passing bell.

Soul-Destroying

SOUL-DESTROY'ING, adjective Pernicious to the soul. Procrastination of repentance and faith is a soul-destroying evil.

Soul-Diseased

SOUL-DISE'ASED, adjective Diseased in soul or mind. [Not in use.]

Soul-Scot

SOUL-SCOT, SOUL-SHOT, noun [soul and scot.] A funeral duty, or money paid by the Romanists in former times for a requiem for the soul.

Soul-Selling

SOUL-SELLING, adjective [soul and sell.] Selling persons; dealing in the purchase and sale of human beings.

Soul-Shot

SOUL-SCOT, SOUL-SHOT noun [soul and scot.] A funeral duty, or money paid by the Romanists in former times for a requiem for the soul.

Soul-Sick

SOUL-SICK, adjective [soul and sick.] Diseased in mind or soul; morally diseased.

Souled

SOULED, adjective Furnished with a soul or mind; as Grecian chiefs largely souled [Little used.]

Soulless

SOUL'LESS, adjective Without a soul, or without greatness or nobleness of mind; mean; spiritless. Slave, soulless villain.

Sound

SOUND, adjective [Latin sanus.]

1. Entire; unbroken; not shaky, split or defective; as sound timber.

2. Undecayed; whole; perfect, or not defective; as sound fruit; a sound apple or melon.

3. Unbroken; not bruised or defective; not lacerated or decayed; as a sound limb.

4. Not carious; not decaying; as a sound tooth.

5. Not broken or decayed; not defective; as a sound ship.

6. Whole; entire; unhurt; unmutilated; as a sound body.

7. Healthy; not diseased; not being in a morbid state; having all the organs complete and in perfect action; as a sound body; sound health; a sound constitution; a sound man; a sound horse.

8. Founded in truth; firm; strong; valid; solid; that cannot be overthrown or refuted; as sound reasoning; a sound argument; a sound objection; sound doctrine; sound principles.

9. Right; correct; well founded; free form error; orthodox. II Tim 1. Let my heart be sound in thy statutes. Psalms 119:80.

10. Heavy; laid on with force; as sound strokes; a sound beating.

11. Founded in right and law; legal; valid; not defective; that cannot be overthrown; as a sound title to land; sound justice.

12. Fast; profound; undisturbed; as sound sleep.

13. Perfect, as intellect; not broken or defective; not enfeebled by age or accident; not wild or wandering; not deranged; as a sound mind; a sound understanding or reason.

SOUND, adverb Soundly; heartily. So sound he slept that nought might him awake.

SOUND, noun The air bladder of a fish.

SOUND, noun [Latin natatio. can this name be given to a narrow sea because wild beasts were accustomed to pass it by swimming, like Bosporus; or is the word from the root of sound whole, denoting a stretch, or narrowness, from stretching, like straight?] A narrow passage of water, or a strait between the main land and an isle; or a strait connecting two seas, or connecting a sea or lake with the ocean; as the sound which connect the Baltic with the ocean, between Denmark and Sweden; the sound that separates Long Island from the main land of New York and Connecticut.

SOUND, noun [See the following verb.] An instrument which surgeons introduce into the bladder, in order to discover whether there is a stone in the viscus or not.

SOUND, verb transitive [Latin sonus, Eng. sound the primary sense of which is to stretch or reach.]

1. To try, as the depth of water and the quality of the ground, by sinking a plummet or lead, attached to a line on which are marked the number of fathoms. The lower end of the lead is covered with tallow, by means of which some portion of the earth, sand, gravel, shells, etc. of the bottom, adhere to it and are drawn up. By these means, and the depth of water and the nature of the bottom, which are carefully marked on good charts, seamen may know how far a ship is from land in the night or in thick weather, and in many cases when the land is too remote to be visible.

2. To introduce a sound into the bladder of a patient, in order to ascertain whether a stone is there or not. When a patient is to be sounded-

3. To try; to examine; to discover or endeavor to discover that which lies concealed in another's breast; to search out the intention, opinion, will or desires. I was in jest, and by that offer meant to sound your breast. I've sounded my Numidians man by man.

SOUND, verb intransitive To use the line and lead in searching the depth of water. The shipmen sounded, and found it twenty fathoms. Acts 28:1.

SOUND, noun The cuttle fish.

SOUND, noun [Latin sonus, from sonom to sound sing, rattle, beat, etc. This may be a dialectical variation of Latin tonus, tono, which seems to be allied to Latin teneo.]

1. Noise; report; the object of hearing; that which strikes the ear; or more philosophically, an impression of the effect of an impression made on the organs of hearing by an impulse or vibration of the air, caused by a collision of bodies or by other means; as the sound of a trumpet or drum; the sound of a human voice; a horrid sound; a charming sound; a sharp sound; a high sound

2. A vibration of air caused by a collision of bodies or other means, sufficient to affect the auditory nerves when perfect. Some persons are so entirely dear that they cannot hear the loudest sounds. Audible sounds are such as are perceptible by the organs of hearing. Sounds not audible to men, may be audible to animals of more sensible organs.

3. Noise without signification; empty noise; noise and nothing else. It is the sense and not the sound that must be the principle.

SOUND, verb intransitive

1. To make a noise; to utter a voice; to make an impulse of the air that shall strike the organs of hearing with a particular effect. We say, an instrument sounds well or ill; it sound shrill; the voice sound harsh. And first taught speaking trumpet how to sound

2. To exhibit by sound or likeness of sound This relation sounds rather like a fiction that a truth.

3. To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published. From you sounded out the word of the Lord. I Thess. 1.

TO sound IN DANGER, in law. is when there is not specific value of property in demand to serve as a rule of damages, as in actions of tort or trespass, as distinguished from actions of debt, _ c.

SOUND, verb transitive

1. To cause to make a noise; as, to sound a trumpet or a horn.

2. To utter audibly; as, to sound a note with the voice.

3. To play on; as, to sound an instrument.

4. To order or direct by a sound; as, to sound a retreat.

5. To celebrate or honor by sounds; to cause to reported; as, to sound one's praise.

6. To celebrate or honor by sounds; to cause to be reported; as, to sound one's praise.

Sound-Board

SOUND'-BOARD, SOUNG'ING BOARD, noun A board which propagates the sound in an organ. To many a row of pipes the sound-board breathes.

Sounded

SOUND'ED, participle passive

1. Caused to make a noise; uttered audibly.

2. Explored; examined.

Sounding

SOUND'ING, participle present tense

1. Causing to sound; uttering audibly.

2. Trying the depth of water by the plummet; examining the intention or will.

3. adjective Sonorous; making a noise.

4. Having a magnificent sound; as words more sounding or significant.

SOUND'ING, noun

1. The act of uttering noise; the act or endeavoring to discover the opinion or desires; the act of throwing the lead.

2. In surgery, the operation of introducing the sound into the bladder; called searching for the stone.

Sounding-Board

SOUND'ING-BOARD, noun A board or structure with a flat surface, suspended over a pulpit to prevent the sound of the preacher's voice from ascending, and thus propagating it further in a horizontal direction. [Used in American churches.]

Sounding-Rod

SOUND'ING-ROD, noun A rod or piece of iron used to ascertain the depth of water in a ship's hold. It is let down in a groove by a pump.

Soundings

SOUND'INGS, noun Any place or part of the ocean, where a deep sounding line will reach the bottom; also, the kind of ground or bottom where the lead reaches.

Soundless

SOUND'LESS, adjective That cannot be fathomed; having no sound.

Soundly

SOUND'LY, adverb [from sound, entire.]

1. Healthily; heartily.

2. Severely; lustily; with heavy blows; smartly; as, to beat one soundly

3. Truly; without fallacy or error; as, to judge or reason soundly

4. Firmly; as a doctrine soundly settled.

5. Fast; closely; so as not to be easily awakened; as, to sleep soundly

Soundness

SOUND'NESS, noun

1. Wholeness; entireness; an unbroken, unimpaired or undecayed state; as the soundness of timber, of fruit, of the teeth, of a limb, etc.

2. An unimpaired state of an animal or vegetable body; a state in which the organs are entire and regularly perform their functions. We say, the soundness of the body, the soundness of the constitution, the soundness of health.

3. Firmness; strength; solidity; truth; as soundness of reasoning or argument, of doctrine or principles.

4. Truth; rectitude; firmness; freedom from error or fallacy; orthodoxy; as soundness of faith.

Soup

SOUP, noun [See Sup and Sop.] Broth; a decoction of flesh for food.

SOUP, verb transitive To sup; to breathe out. [Not in use.]

SOUP, verb transitive To sweep. [Not in use.] [See Sweep and swoop.]

Sour

SOUR, adjective

1. Acid; having a pungent taste; sharp to the taste; tart; as, vinegar is sour; sour cider; sour beer.

2. Acid and austere or astringent; as, sunripe fruits are often sour

3. Harsh of temper; crabbed; peevish; austere; morose; as a man of a sour temper.

4. Afflictive; as sour adversities. [Not in use.]

5. Expressing discontent or peevishness. He never uttered a sour word. The lord treasurer often looked on me with a sour countenance.

6. Harsh to the feelings; cold and damp; as sour weather.

7. Rancid; musty.

8. Turned, as milk; coagulated.

SOUR, noun An acid substance.

SOUR, verb transitive

1. To make acid; to cause to have a sharp taste. So the sun's heat, with different pow'rs, ripens the grape, the liquor sours.

2. To make harsh, cold or unkindly. Tufts of grass sour land.

3. To make harsh in temper; to make cross, crabbed, peevish or discontented. Misfortunes often sour'd, nor wrath debas'd my heart.

4. To make uneasy or less agreeable. Hail, great king! To sour your happiness I must report the queen is dead.

5. In rural economy, to macerate, as lime, and render fir for plaster or mortar.

SOUR, verb intransitive

1. To become acid; to acquire the quality of tartness or pungency to the taste. Cider sours rapidly in the rays of the sun. When food sours in the stomach, it is evidence of imperfect digestion.

2. TO become peevish or crabbed. They hinder the hatred of vice from souring into severity.

Source

SOURCE, noun [Latin surgo.]

1. Properly, the spring or fountain from which a stream of water proceeds, or any collection of water within the earth or upon its surface, in which a stream originates. This is called also the head of the stream. We call the water of a spring, where it issues from the earth, the source of the stream or rivulet proceeding form it. We say also that springs have their sources in subterranean ponds, lakes or collections of water. We say also that a large river has is source in a lake. For example, the St. Lawrence has its source in the great lakes of America.

2. First cause; original; that which gives rise to any thing. Thus ambition, the love of power and of fame, have been the sources of half the calamities of nations. Intemperance is the source of innumerable evils to individuals.

3. The first producer; he or that which originates; as Greece the source of arts.

Sourdet

SOURDET, noun The little pipe of a trumpet.

SOUR'-DOCK, noun Sorrel, so called.

Soured

SOUR'ED, participle passive Made sour; made peevish.

SOUR'-GOURD, noun A plant of the genus Adansonia.

Souring

SOUR'ING, participle present tense Making acid; becoming sour; making peevish.

SOUR'ING, noun That which makes acid.

Sourish

SOUR'ISH, adjective Somewhat sour; moderately acid; as sourish fruit; a sourish taste.

Sourly

SOUR'LY, adverb

1. With acidity.

2. With peevishness; with acrimony. The stern Athenian prince the sourly smil'd.

3. Discontentedly.