Sooth (a.) Blandishment; cajolery.
Soothed (imp. & p. p.) of Soothe
Soothing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Soothe
Soothe (a.) To assent to as true.
Soothe (a.) To assent to; to comply with; to gratify; to humor by compliance; to please with blandishments or soft words; to flatter.
Soothe (a.) To assuage; to mollify; to calm; to comfort; as, to soothe a crying child; to soothe one's sorrows.
Soother (n.) One who, or that which, soothes.
Soothfast (a.) Firmly fixed in, or founded upon, the thruth; true; genuine; real; also, truthful; faithful.
Soothfast (adv.) Soothly; really; in fact.
Soothing () a. & n. from Soothe, v.
Soothingly (adv.) In a soothing manner.
Soothly (adv.) In truth; truly; really; verily.
Soothness (n.) Truth; reality.
Soothsay (v. i.) To foretell; to predict.
Soothsay (n.) A true saying; a proverb; a prophecy.
Soothsay (n.) Omen; portent. Having
Soothsayer (n.) One who foretells events by the art of soothsaying; a prognosticator.
Soothsayer (n.) A mantis.
Soothsaying (n.) A true saying; truth.
Soothsaying (n.) The act of one who soothsays; the foretelling of events; the art or practice of making predictions.
Soothsaying (n.) A prediction; a prophecy; a prognostication.
Sootiness (n.) The quality or state of being sooty; fuliginousness.
Sootish (a.) Sooty.
Sooty (superl.) Of or pertaining to soot; producing soot; soiled by soot.
Sooty (superl.) Having a dark brown or black color like soot; fuliginous; dusky; dark.
Sooty (v. t.) To black or foul with soot.
Sop (v. t.) Anything steeped, or dipped and softened, in any liquid; especially, something dipped in broth or liquid food, and intended to be eaten.
Sop (v. t.) Anything given to pacify; -- so called from the sop given to Cerberus, as related in mythology.
Sop (v. t.) A thing of little or no value.
Sopped (imp. & p. p.) of Sop
Sopping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sop
Sop (v. t.) To steep or dip in any liquid.
Sope (n.) See Soap.
Soph (n.) A contraction of Soph ister.
Soph (n.) A contraction of Sophomore.
Sophis (pl. ) of Sophi
Sophi (n.) See Sufi.
Sophic (a.) Alt. of Sophical
Sophical (a.) Teaching wisdom.
Sophime (n.) Sophism.
Sophism (n.) The doctrine or mode of reasoning practiced by a sophist; hence, any fallacy designed to deceive.
Sophist (n.) One of a class of men who taught eloquence, philosophy, and politics in ancient Greece; especially, one of those who, by their fallacious but plausible reasoning, puzzled inquirers after truth, weakened the faith of the people, and drew upon themselves general hatred and contempt.
Sophist (n.) Hence, an impostor in argument; a captious or fallacious reasoner.
Sophister (n.) A sophist. See Sophist.
Sophister (n.) A student who is advanced beyond the first year of his residence.
Sophister (v. t.) To maintain by sophistry, or by a fallacious argument.
Sophistic (a.) Alt. of Sophistical
Sophistical (a.) Of or pertaining to a sophist; embodying sophistry; fallaciously subtile; not sound.
Sophisticated (imp. & p. p.) of Sophisticate
Sophisticating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sophisticate
Sophisticate (v. t.) To render worthless by admixture; to adulterate; to damage; to pervert; as, to sophisticate wine.
Sophisticate (a.) Alt. of Sophisticated
Sophisticated (a.) Adulterated; not pure; not genuine.
Sophistication (n.) The act of sophisticating; adulteration; as, the sophistication of drugs.
Sophisticator (n.) One who sophisticates.
Sophistry (n.) The art or process of reasoning; logic.
Sophistry (n.) The practice of a sophist; fallacious reasoning; reasoning sound in appearance only.
Sophomore (n.) One belonging to the second of the four classes in an American college, or one next above a freshman.
Sophomoric (a.) Alt. of Sophomorical
Sophomorical (a.) Of or pertaining to a sophomore; resembling a sophomore; hence, pretentious; inflated in style or manner; as, sophomoric affectation.
Sophora (n.) A genus of leguminous plants.
Sophora (n.) A tree (Sophora Japonica) of Eastern Asia, resembling the common locust; occasionally planted in the United States.
Sophta (n.) See Softa.
Sopite (v. t.) To lay asleep; to put to sleep; to quiet.
Sopition (n.) The act of putting to sleep, or the state of being put to sleep; sleep.
Sopor (n.) Profound sleep from which a person can be roused only with difficulty.
Soporate (v. t.) To lay or put to sleep; to stupefy.
Soporiferous (a.) Causing sleep; somniferous; soporific.
Soporific (a.) Causing sleep; tending to cause sleep; soporiferous; as, the soporific virtues of opium.
Soporific (n.) A medicine, drug, plant, or other agent that has the quality of inducing sleep; a narcotic.
Soporose (a.) Alt. of Soporous
Soporous (a.) Causing sleep; sleepy.
Sopper (n.) One who sops.
Soppy (a.) Soaked or saturated with liquid or moisture; very wet or sloppy.
Sopra (adv.) Above; before; over; upon.
Sopranist (n.) A treble singer.
Sopranos (pl. ) of Soprano
Soprani (pl. ) of Soprano
Soprano (n.) The treble; the highest vocal register; the highest kind of female or boy's voice; the upper part in harmony for mixed voices.
Soprano (n.) A singer, commonly a woman, with a treble voice.
Sopsavine (n.) See Sops of wine, under Sop.
Sora (n.) A North American rail (Porzana Carolina) common in the Eastern United States. Its back is golden brown, varied with black and white, the front of the head and throat black, the breast and sides of the head and neck slate-colored. Called also American rail, Carolina rail, Carolina crake, common rail, sora rail, soree, meadow chicken, and orto.
Sorance (n.) Soreness.
Sorb (n.) The wild service tree (Pyrus torminalis) of Europe; also, the rowan tree.
Sorb (n.) The fruit of these trees.
Sorbate (n.) A salt of sorbic acid.
Sorbefacient (a.) Producing absorption.
Sorbefacient (n.) A medicine or substance which produces absorption.
Sorbent (n.) An absorbent.
Sorbet (n.) A kind of beverage; sherbet.
Sorbic (a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, the rowan tree, or sorb; specifically, designating an acid, C/H/CO/H, of the acetylene series, found in the unripe berries of this tree, and extracted as a white crystalline substance.
Sorbile (a.) Fit to be drunk or sipped.
Sorbin (n.) An unfermentable sugar, isomeric with glucose, found in the ripe berries of the rowan tree, or sorb, and extracted as a sweet white crystalline substance; -- called also mountain-ash sugar.
Sorbite (n.) A sugarlike substance, isomeric with mannite and dulcite, found with sorbin in the ripe berries of the sorb, and extracted as a sirup or a white crystalline substance.
Sorbition (n.) The act of drinking or sipping.
Sorbonical (a.) Belonging to the Sorbonne or to a Sorbonist.
Sorbonist (n.) A doctor of the Sorbonne, or theological college, in the University of Paris, founded by Robert de Sorbon, a. d. 1252. It was suppressed in the Revolution of 1789.
Sorcerer (n.) A conjurer; an enchanter; a magician.
Sorceress (n.) A female sorcerer.
Sorcering (n.) Act or practice of using sorcery.