Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 117

Sorcerous (a.) Of or pertaining to sorcery.

Sorceries (pl. ) of Sorcery

Sorcery (n.) Divination by the assistance, or supposed assistance, of evil spirits, or the power of commanding evil spirits; magic; necromancy; witchcraft; enchantment.

Sord (n.) See Sward.

Sordes (n.) Foul matter; excretion; dregs; filthy, useless, or rejected matter of any kind; specifically (Med.), the foul matter that collects on the teeth and tongue in low fevers and other conditions attended with great vital depression.

Sordet (n.) A sordine.

Sordid (a.) Filthy; foul; dirty.

Sordid (a.) Vile; base; gross; mean; as, vulgar, sordid mortals.

Sordid (a.) Meanly avaricious; covetous; niggardly.

Sordidly (n.) Sordidness.

Sordidly (adv.) In a sordid manner.

Sordidness (n.) The quality or state of being sordid.

Sordine (n.) See Damper, and 5th Mute.

Sore (n.) Reddish brown; sorrel.

Sore (n.) A young hawk or falcon in the first year.

Sore (n.) A young buck in the fourth year. See the Note under Buck.

Sore (superl.) Tender to the touch; susceptible of pain from pressure; inflamed; painful; -- said of the body or its parts; as, a sore hand.

Sore (superl.) Fig.: Sensitive; tender; easily pained, grieved, or vexed; very susceptible of irritation.

Sore (superl.) Severe; afflictive; distressing; as, a sore disease; sore evil or calamity.

Sore (superl.) Criminal; wrong; evil.

Sore (a.) A place in an animal body where the skin and flesh are ruptured or bruised, so as to be tender or painful; a painful or diseased place, such as an ulcer or a boil.

Sore (a.) Fig.: Grief; affliction; trouble; difficulty.

Sore (a.) In a sore manner; with pain; grievously.

Sore (a.) Greatly; violently; deeply.

Soredia (n.) pl. of Soredium.

Sorediate (a.) Sorediiferous.

Sordiferous (a.) Alt. of Sorediiferous

Sorediiferous (a.) Bearing soredia; sorediate.

Soredia (pl. ) of Soredium

Soredium (n.) A patch of granular bodies on the surface of the thallus of lichens.

Soree (n.) Same as Sora.

Sorehead (n.) One who is disgruntled by a failure in politics, or the like.

Sorehon (n.) Formerly, in Ireland, a kind of servile tenure which subjected the tenant to maintain his chieftain gratuitously whenever he wished to indulge in a revel.

Sorel (n.) A young buck in the third year. See the Note under Buck.

Sorel (n.) A yellowish or reddish brown color; sorrel.

Sorely (adv.) In a sore manner; grievously; painfully; as, to be sorely afflicted.

Sorema (n.) A heap of carpels belonging to one flower.

Soreness (n.) The quality or state of being sore; tenderness; painfull; as, the soreness of a wound; the soreness of an affliction.

Sorex (n.) A genus of small Insectivora, including the common shrews.

Sorgne (n.) The three-beared rocking, or whistlefish.

Sorghum (n.) A genus of grasses, properly limited to two species, Sorghum Halepense, the Arabian millet, or Johnson grass (see Johnson grass), and S. vulgare, the Indian millet (see Indian millet, under Indian).

Sorghum (n.) A variety of Sorghum vulgare, grown for its saccharine juice; the Chinese sugar cane.

Sorgo (n.) Indian millet and its varieties. See Sorghum.

Sori (n.) pl. of Sorus.

Soricine (a.) Of or pertaining to the Shrew family (Soricidae); like a shrew in form or habits; as, the soricine bat (Glossophaga soricina).

Sorites (n.) An abridged form of stating of syllogisms in a series of propositions so arranged that the predicate of each one that precedes forms the subject of each one that follows, and the conclusion unites the subject of the first proposition with the predicate of the last proposition

Soritical (a.) Of or pertaining to a sorites; resembling a sorites.

Sorn (v. i.) To obtrude one's self on another for bed and board.

Sorner (n.) One who obtrudes himself on another for bed and board.

Sororal (a.) Relating to a sister; sisterly.

Sororicide (n.) The murder of one's sister; also, one who murders or kills one's own sister.

Sororize (v. i.) To associate, or hold fellowship, as sisters; to have sisterly feelings; -- analogous to fraternize.

Sorosis (n.) A woman's club; an association of women.

Sorosis (n.) A fleshy fruit formed by the consolidation of many flowers with their receptacles, ovaries, etc., as the breadfruit, mulberry, and pineapple.

Sorrage (n.) The blades of green or barley.

Sorrance (n.) Same as Sorance.

Sorrel (a.) Of a yellowish or redish brown color; as, a sorrel horse.

Sorrel (n.) A yellowish or redish brown color.

Sorrel (n.) One of various plants having a sour juice; especially, a plant of the genus Rumex, as Rumex Acetosa, Rumex Acetosella, etc.

Sorrento work () Ornamental work, mostly carved in olivewood, decorated with inlay, made at or near Sorrento, Italy. Hence, more rarely, jig-saw work and the like done anywhere.

Sorrily (adv.) In a sorry manner; poorly.

Sorriness (n.) The quality or state of being sorry.

Sorrow (n.) The uneasiness or pain of mind which is produced by the loss of any good, real or supposed, or by diseappointment in the expectation of good; grief at having suffered or occasioned evil; regret; unhappiness; sadness.

Sorrowed (imp. & p. p.) of Sorrow

Sorrowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sorrow

Sorrow (n.) To feel pain of mind in consequence of evil experienced, feared, or done; to grieve; to be sad; to be sorry.

Sorrowed (a.) Accompanied with sorrow; sorrowful.

Sorrowful (a.) Full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; dejected; distressed.

Sorrowful (a.) Producing sorrow; exciting grief; mournful; lamentable; grievous; as, a sorrowful accident.

Sorrowless (a.) Free from sorrow.

Sorry (a.) Grieved for the loss of some good; pained for some evil; feeling regret; -- now generally used to express light grief or affliction, but formerly often used to express deeper feeling.

Sorry (a.) Melancholy; dismal; gloomy; mournful.

Sorry (a.) Poor; mean; worthless; as, a sorry excuse.

Sortes (pl. ) of Sors

Sors (n.) A lot; also, a kind of divination by means of lots.

Sort (n.) Chance; lot; destiny.

Sort (n.) A kind or species; any number or collection of individual persons or things characterized by the same or like qualities; a class or order; as, a sort of men; a sort of horses; a sort of trees; a sort of poems.

Sort (n.) Manner; form of being or acting.

Sort (n.) Condition above the vulgar; rank.

Sort (n.) A chance group; a company of persons who happen to be together; a troop; also, an assemblage of animals.

Sort (n.) A pair; a set; a suit.

Sort (n.) Letters, figures, points, marks, spaces, or quadrats, belonging to a case, separately considered.

Sorted (imp. & p. p.) of Sort

Sorting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sort

Sort (v. t.) To separate, and place in distinct classes or divisions, as things having different qualities; as, to sort cloths according to their colors; to sort wool or thread according to its fineness.

Sort (v. t.) To reduce to order from a confused state.

Sort (v. t.) To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class.

Sort (v. t.) To choose from a number; to select; to cull.

Sort (v. t.) To conform; to adapt; to accommodate.

Sort (v. i.) To join or associate with others, esp. with others of the same kind or species; to agree.

Sort (v. i.) To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize.

Sortable (a.) Capable of being sorted.

Sortable (a.) Suitable; befitting; proper.

Sortably (adv.) Suitable.

Sortal (a.) Pertaining to a sort.

Sortance (v. i.) Suitableness; agreement.

Sorter (n.) One who, or that which, sorts.

Sortes (n.) pl. of Sors.

Sortie (n.) The sudden issuing of a body of troops, usually small, from a besieged place to attack or harass the besiegers; a sally.

Sortilege (n.) The act or practice of drawing lots; divination by drawing lots.

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