Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 118

Sortilegious (a.) Pertaining to sortilege.

Sortilegy (n.) Sortilege.

Sortition (n.) Selection or appointment by lot.

Sortment (n.) Assortiment.

Sori (pl. ) of Sorus

Sorus (n.) One of the fruit dots, or small clusters of sporangia, on the back of the fronds of ferns.

Sorwe (n. & v.) Sorrow.

Sorweful (a.) Sorrowful.

Sory (n.) Green vitriol, or some earth imregnated with it.

So-so (a.) Neither very good nor very bad; middling; passable; tolerable; indifferent.

So-so (adv.) Tolerably; passably.

Soss (v. i.) To fall at once into a chair or seat; to sit lazily.

Soss (v. t.) To throw in a negligent or careless manner; to toss.

Soss (n.) A lazy fellow.

Soss (n.) A heavy fall.

Soss (n.) Anything dirty or muddy; a dirty puddle.

Sostenuto (a.) Sustained; -- applied to a movement or passage the sounds of which are to sustained to the utmost of the nominal value of the time; also, to a passage the tones of which are to be somewhat prolonged or protacted.

Sot (n.) A stupid person; a blockhead; a dull fellow; a dolt.

Sot (n.) A person stupefied by excessive drinking; an habitual drunkard.

Sot (a.) Sottish; foolish; stupid; dull.

Sot (v. t.) To stupefy; to infatuate; to besot.

Sot (v. i.) To tipple to stupidity.

Sotadean (a.) Sotadic.

Sotadic (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the lascivious compositions of the Greek poet Sotades.

Sotadic (n.) A Sotadic verse or poem.

Sote (a.) Sweet.

Sotel (a.) Alt. of Sotil

Sotil (a.) Subtile.

Soteriology (n.) A discourse on health, or the science of promoting and preserving health.

Soteriology (n.) The doctrine of salvation by Jesus Christ.

Sothe (a.) Sooth.

Sothiac (a.) Alt. of Sothic

Sothic (a.) Of or pertaining to Sothis, the Egyptian name for the Dog Star; taking its name from the Dog Star; canicular.

Sotilte (n.) Subtlety.

Sotted () a. & p. p. of Sot. Befooled; deluded; besotted.

Sottery (n.) Folly.

Sottish (a.) Like a sot; doltish; very foolish; drunken.

Sotto voce () With a restrained voice or moderate force; in an undertone.

Sotto voce () Spoken low or in an undertone.

Sous (pl. ) of Sou

Sou (n.) An old French copper coin, equivalent in value to, and now displaced by, the five-centime piece (/ of a franc), which is popularly called a sou.

Souari nut () The large edible nutlike seed of a tall tropical American tree (Caryocar nuciferum) of the same natural order with the tea plant; -- also called butternut.

Soubah (n.) See Subah.

Soubahdar (n.) See Subahdar.

Soubrette (n.) A female servant or attendant; specifically, as a term of the theater, a lady's maid, in comedies, who acts the part of an intrigante; a meddlesome, mischievous female servant or young woman.

Soubriquet (n.) See Sobriquet.

Souce (n.) See 1st Souse.

Souce (v. t. & i.) See Souse.

Souchong (n.) A kind of black tea of a fine quality.

Soudan (n.) A sultan.

Souded (a.) Alt. of Soudet

Soudet (a.) United; consolidated; made firm; strengthened.

Souffle (n.) A murmuring or blowing sound; as, the uterine souffle heard over the pregnant uterus.

Souffle (n.) A side dish served hot from the oven at dinner, made of eggs, milk, and flour or other farinaceous substance, beaten till very light, and flavored with fruits, liquors, or essence.

Sough (n.) A sow.

Sough (n.) A small drain; an adit.

Sough (v. i.) The sound produced by soughing; a hollow murmur or roaring.

Sough (v. i.) Hence, a vague rumor or flying report.

Sough (v. i.) A cant or whining mode of speaking, especially in preaching or praying.

Sough (v. i.) To whistle or sigh, as the wind.

Sought () imp. & p. p. of Seek.

Souke (v. t. & i.) To suck.

Soul (a.) Sole.

Soul (a.) Sole.

Soul (v. i.) To afford suitable sustenance.

Soul (n.) The spiritual, rational, and immortal part in man; that part of man which enables him to think, and which renders him a subject of moral government; -- sometimes, in distinction from the higher nature, or spirit, of man, the so-called animal soul, that is, the seat of life, the sensitive affections and phantasy, exclusive of the voluntary and rational powers; -- sometimes, in distinction from the mind, the moral and emotional part of man's nature, the seat of feeling, in distinction from intellect; -- sometimes, the intellect only; the understanding; the seat of knowledge, as distinguished from feeling. In a more general sense, "an animating, separable, surviving entity, the vehicle of individual personal existence."

Soul (n.) The seat of real life or vitality; the source of action; the animating or essential part.

Soul (n.) The leader; the inspirer; the moving spirit; the heart; as, the soul of an enterprise; an able general is the soul of his army.

Soul (n.) Energy; courage; spirit; fervor; affection, or any other noble manifestation of the heart or moral nature; inherent power or goodness.

Soul (n.) A human being; a person; -- a familiar appellation, usually with a qualifying epithet; as, poor soul.

Soul (n.) A pure or disembodied spirit.

Soul (v. t.) To indue with a soul; to furnish with a soul or mind.

Souled (a.) Furnished with a soul; possessing soul and feeling; -- used chiefly in composition; as, great-souled Hector.

Soulili (n.) A long-tailed, crested Javan monkey (Semnopithecus mitratus). The head, the crest, and the upper surface of the tail, are black.

Soulless (a.) Being without a soul, or without greatness or nobleness of mind; mean; spiritless.

Soullessly (adv.) In a soulless manner.

Soun (n. & v.) Sound.

Sound (n.) The air bladder of a fish; as, cod sounds are an esteemed article of food.

Sound (n.) A cuttlefish.

Sound (superl.) Whole; unbroken; unharmed; free from flaw, defect, or decay; perfect of the kind; as, sound timber; sound fruit; a sound tooth; a sound ship.

Sound (superl.) Healthy; not diseased; not being in a morbid state; -- said of body or mind; as, a sound body; a sound constitution; a sound understanding.

Sound (superl.) Firm; strong; safe.

Sound (superl.) Free from error; correct; right; honest; true; faithful; orthodox; -- said of persons; as, a sound lawyer; a sound thinker.

Sound (superl.) Founded in truth or right; supported by justice; not to be overthrown on refuted; not fallacious; as, sound argument or reasoning; a sound objection; sound doctrine; sound principles.

Sound (superl.) heavy; laid on with force; as, a sound beating.

Sound (superl.) Undisturbed; deep; profound; as, sound sleep.

Sound (superl.) Founded in law; legal; valid; not defective; as, a sound title to land.

Sound (adv.) Soundly.

Sound (n.) A narrow passage of water, or a strait between the mainland and an island; also, a strait connecting two seas, or connecting a sea or lake with the ocean; as, the Sound between the Baltic and the german Ocean; Long Island Sound.

Sounded (imp. & p. p.) of Sound

Sounding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sound

Sound (v. t.) To measure the depth of; to fathom; especially, to ascertain the depth of by means of a line and plummet.

Sound (v. t.) Fig.: To ascertain, or try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person); to examine; to try; to test; to probe.

Sound (v. t.) To explore, as the bladder or urethra, with a sound; to examine with a sound; also, to examine by auscultation or percussion; as, to sound a patient.

Sound (v. i.) To ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device.

Sound (n.) Any elongated instrument or probe, usually metallic, by which cavities of the body are sounded or explored, especially the bladder for stone, or the urethra for a stricture.

Sound (n.) The peceived object occasioned by the impulse or vibration of a material substance affecting the ear; a sensation or perception of the mind received through the ear, and produced by the impulse or vibration of the air or other medium with which the ear is in contact; 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; noise; report; as, the sound of a drum; the sound of the human voice; a horrid sound; a charming sound; a sharp, high, or shrill sound.

Sound (n.) The occasion of sound; the impulse or vibration which would occasion sound to a percipient if present with unimpaired; hence, the theory of vibrations in elastic media such cause sound; as, a treatise on sound.

Sound (n.) Noise without signification; empty noise; noise and nothing else.

Sound (v. i.) To make a noise; to utter a voice; to make an impulse of the air that shall strike the organs of hearing with a perceptible effect.

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