Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 109

Soberly (adv.) In a sober manner; temperately; cooly; calmly; gravely; seriously.

Soberly (a.) Grave; serious; solemn; sad.

Sober-minded (a.) Having a disposition or temper habitually sober.

Soberness (n.) The quality or state of being sober.

Soboles (n.) A shoot running along under ground, forming new plants at short distances.

Soboles (n.) A sucker, as of tree or shrub.

Soboliferous (a.) Producing soboles. See Illust. of Houseleek.

Sobriety (n.) Habitual soberness or temperance as to the use of spirituous liquors; as, a man of sobriety.

Sobriety (n.) Habitual freedom from enthusiasm, inordinate passion, or overheated imagination; calmness; coolness; gravity; seriousness; as, the sobriety of riper years.

Sobriquet (n.) An assumed name; a fanciful epithet or appellation; a nickname.

Soc (n.) The lord's power or privilege of holding a court in a district, as in manor or lordship; jurisdiction of causes, and the limits of that jurisdiction.

Soc (n.) Liberty or privilege of tenants excused from customary burdens.

Soc (n.) An exclusive privilege formerly claimed by millers of grinding all the corn used within the manor or township which the mill stands.

Socage (n.) A tenure of lands and tenements by a certain or determinate service; a tenure distinct from chivalry or knight's service, in which the obligations were uncertain. The service must be certain, in order to be denominated socage, as to hold by fealty and twenty shillings rent.

Socager (n.) A tennant by socage; a socman.

So-called (a.) So named; called by such a name (but perhaps called thus with doubtful propriety).

Sociability (n.) The quality of being sociable; sociableness.

SSociable (a.) Capable of being, or fit to be, united in one body or company; associable.

SSociable (a.) Inclined to, or adapted for, society; ready to unite with others; fond of companions; social.

SSociable (a.) Ready to converse; inclined to talk with others; not taciturn or reserved.

SSociable (a.) Affording opportunites for conversation; characterized by much conversation; as, a sociable party.

SSociable (a.) No longer hostile; friendly.

Sociable (n.) A gathering of people for social purposes; an informal party or reception; as, a church sociable.

Sociable (n.) A carriage having two double seats facing each other, and a box for the driver.

Sociableness (n.) The quality of being sociable.

Sociably (adv.) In a sociable manner.

Social (a.) Of or pertaining to society; relating to men living in society, or to the public as an aggregate body; as, social interest or concerns; social pleasure; social benefits; social happiness; social duties.

Social (a.) Ready or disposed to mix in friendly converse; companionable; sociable; as, a social person.

Social (a.) Consisting in union or mutual intercourse.

Social (a.) Naturally growing in groups or masses; -- said of many individual plants of the same species.

Social (a.) Living in communities consisting of males, females, and neuters, as do ants and most bees.

Social (a.) Forming compound groups or colonies by budding from basal processes or stolons; as, the social ascidians.

Socialism (n.) A theory or system of social reform which contemplates a complete reconstruction of society, with a more just and equitable distribution of property and labor. In popular usage, the term is often employed to indicate any lawless, revolutionary social scheme. See Communism, Fourierism, Saint-Simonianism, forms of socialism.

Socialist (n.) One who advocates or practices the doctrines of socialism.

Socialist (a.) Alt. of Socialistic

Socialistic (a.) Pertaining to, or of the nature of, socialism.

Sociality (n.) The quality of being social; socialness.

Socialize (v. t.) To render social.

Socialize (v. t.) To subject to, or regulate by, socialism.

Socially (adv.) In a social manner; sociably.

Socialness (n.) The quality or state of being social.

Sociate (a.) Associated.

Sociate (n.) An associate.

Sociate (v. i.) To associate.

Societarian (a.) Of or pertaining to society; social.

Societary (a.) Societarian.

Societies (pl. ) of Society

Society (n.) The relationship of men to one another when associated in any way; companionship; fellowship; company.

Society (n.) Connection; participation; partnership.

Society (n.) A number of persons associated for any temporary or permanent object; an association for mutual or joint usefulness, pleasure, or profit; a social union; a partnership; as, a missionary society.

Society (n.) The persons, collectively considered, who live in any region or at any period; any community of individuals who are united together by a common bond of nearness or intercourse; those who recognize each other as associates, friends, and acquaintances.

Society (n.) Specifically, the more cultivated portion of any community in its social relations and influences; those who mutually give receive formal entertainments.

Socinian (a.) Of or pertaining to Socinus, or the Socinians.

Socinian (n.) One of the followers of Socinus; a believer in Socinianism.

Socinianism (n.) The tenets or doctrines of Faustus Socinus, an Italian theologian of the sixteenth century, who denied the Trinity, the deity of Christ, the personality of the Devil, the native and total depravity of man, the vicarious atonement, and the eternity of future punishment. His theory was, that Christ was a man divinely commissioned, who had no existence before he was conceived by the Virgin Mary; that human sin was the imitation of Adam's sin, and that human salvation was the imitation and adoption of Christ's virtue; that the Bible was to be interpreted by human reason; and that its language was metaphorical, and not to be taken literally.

Socinianized (imp. & p. p.) of Socinianize

Socinianizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Socinianize

Socinianize (v. t.) To cause to conform to Socinianism; to regulate by, or imbue with, the principles of Socinianism.

Sociologic (a.) Alt. of Sociological

Sociological (a.) Of or pertaining to sociology, or social science.

Sociologist (n.) One who treats of, or devotes himself to, the study of sociology.

Sociology (n.) That branch of philosophy which treats of the constitution, phenomena, and development of human society; social science.

Sock (n.) A plowshare.

Sock (n.) The shoe worn by actors of comedy in ancient Greece and Rome, -- used as a symbol of comedy, or of the comic drama, as distinguished from tragedy, which is symbolized by the buskin.

Sock (n.) A knit or woven covering for the foot and lower leg; a stocking with a short leg.

Sock (n.) A warm inner sole for a shoe.

Sockdolager (n.) That which finishes or ends a matter; a settler; a poser, as a heavy blow, a conclusive answer, and the like.

Sockdolager (n.) A combination of two hooks which close upon each other, by means of a spring, as soon as the fish bites.

Socket (n.) An opening into which anything is fitted; any hollow thing or place which receives and holds something else; as, the sockets of the teeth.

Socket (n.) Especially, the hollow tube or place in which a candle is fixed in the candlestick.

Socketed (a.) Having a socket.

Sockless (a.) Destitute of socks or shoes.

Socky (a.) Wet; soaky.

Socle (n.) A plain block or plinth forming a low pedestal; any base; especially, the base of a statue, column, or the like. See Plinth.

Socle (n.) A plain face or plinth at the lower part of a wall.

Socmen (pl. ) of Socman

Socman (n.) One who holds lands or tenements by socage; a socager.

Socmanry (n.) Tenure by socage.

Socome (n.) A custom of tenants to grind corn at the lord's mill.

Socotrine (a.) Of or pertaining to Socotra, an island in the Indian Ocean, on the east coast of Africa.

Socotrine (n.) A native or inhabitant of Socotra.

Socratic (a.) Alt. of Socratical

Socratical (a.) Of or pertaining to Socrates, the Grecian sage and teacher. (b. c. 469-399), or to his manner of teaching and philosophizing.

Socratically (adv.) In the Socratic method.

Socratism (n.) The philosophy or the method of Socrates.

Socratist (n.) A disciple or follower of Socrates.

Sod (n.) The rock dove.

Sod () imp. of Seethe.

Sod (n.) That stratum of the surface of the soil which is filled with the roots of grass, or any portion of that surface; turf; sward.

Sodden (imp. & p. p.) of Sod

Sodding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sod

Sod (v. t.) To cover with sod; to turf.

Soda (n.) Sodium oxide or hydroxide.

Soda (n.) Popularly, sodium carbonate or bicarbonate.

Sodaic (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, soda.

Sodalite (n.) A mineral of a white to blue or gray color, occuring commonly in dodecahedrons, also massive. It is a silicate of alumina and soda with some chlorine.

Sodalities (pl. ) of Sodality

Sodality (n.) A fellowship or fraternity; a brotherhood.

Sodality (n.) Specifically, a lay association for devotion or for charitable purposes.

Sodamide (n.) A greenish or reddish crystalline substance, NaNH2, obtained by passing ammonia over heated sodium.

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