Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 120

Southeaster (n.) A storm, strong wind, or gale coming from the southeast.

Southeaster (adv.) Toward the southeast.

Southeastern (a.) Of or pertaining to the southeast; southeasterly.

Southeastward (adv.) Alt. of Southeastwardly

Southeastwardly (adv.) Toward the southeast.

Souther (n.) A strong wind, gale, or storm from the south.

Southerliness (n.) The quality or state of being southerly; direction toward the south.

Southerly (a.) Southern.

Southern (a.) Of or pertaining to the south; situated in, or proceeding from, the south; situated or proceeding toward the south.

Southern (n.) A Southerner.

Southerner (n.) An inhabitant or native of the south, esp. of the Southern States of North America; opposed to Northerner.

Southernliness (n.) Southerliness.

Southernly (a.) Somewhat southern.

Southernly (adv.) In a southerly manner or course; southward.

Southernmost (a.) Farthest south.

Southernwood (n.) A shrubby species of wormwood (Artemisia Abrotanum) having aromatic foliage. It is sometimes used in making beer.

Southing (n.) Tendency or progress southward; as, the southing of the sun.

Southing (n.) The time at which the moon, or other heavenly body, passes the meridian of a place.

Southing (n.) Distance of any heavenly body south of the equator; south declination; south latitude.

Southing (n.) Distance southward from any point departure or of reckoning, measured on a meridian; -- opposed to northing.

Southly (adv.) Southerly.

Southmost (a.) Farthest toward the south; southernmost.

Southness (n.) A tendency in the end of a magnetic needle to point toward the south pole.

Southren (a.) Southern.

Southron (n.) An inhabitant of the more southern part of a country; formerly, a name given in Scotland to any Englishman.

Southsay (v. i.) See Soothsay.

Southsayer (n.) See Soothsayer.

South southerly () the old squaw; -- so called in imitation of its cry. Called also southerly, and southerland. See under Old.

Southward (adv.) Alt. of Southwards

Southwards (adv.) Toward the south, or toward a point nearer the south than the east or west point; as, to go southward.

Southward (a.) Toward the south.

Southward (n.) The southern regions or countries; the south.

Southwardly (adv.) In a southern direction.

Southwest (n.) The point of the compass equally from the south and the west; the southwest part or region.

Southwest (a.) Pertaining to, or in the direction of, the southwest; proceeding toward the southwest; coming from the southwest; as, a southwest wind.

Southwester (n.) A storm, gale, or strong wind from the southwest.

Southwester (n.) A hat made of painted canvas, oiled cloth, or the like, with a flap at the back, -- worn in stormy weather.

Southwesterly (a.) To ward or from the southwest; as, a southwesterly course; a southwesterly wind.

Southwestern (a.) Of or pertaining to the southwest; southwesterly; as, to sail a southwestern course.

Southwestward (adv.) Alt. of Southwestwardly

Southwestwardly (adv.) Toward the southwest.

Souvenance (n.) Alt. of Sovenaunce

Sovenaunce (n.) Remembrance.

Souvenir (n.) That which serves as a reminder; a remembrancer; a memento; a keepsake.

Sovereign (a.) Supreme or highest in power; superior to all others; chief; as, our sovereign prince.

Sovereign (a.) Independent of, and unlimited by, any other; possessing, or entitled to, original authority or jurisdiction; as, a sovereign state; a sovereign discretion.

Sovereign (a.) Princely; royal.

Sovereign (a.) Predominant; greatest; utmost; paramount.

Sovereign (a.) Efficacious in the highest degree; effectual; controlling; as, a sovereign remedy.

Sovereign (n.) The person, body, or state in which independent and supreme authority is vested; especially, in a monarchy, a king, queen, or emperor.

Sovereign (n.) A gold coin of Great Britain, on which an effigy of the head of the reigning king or queen is stamped, valued at one pound sterling, or about $4.86.

Sovereign (n.) Any butterfly of the tribe Nymphalidi, or genus Basilarchia, as the ursula and the viceroy.

Sovereignize (v. i.) To exercise supreme authority.

Sovereignly (adv.) In a sovereign manner; in the highest degree; supremely.

Sovereignties (pl. ) of Sovereignty

Sovereignty (n.) The quality or state of being sovereign, or of being a sovereign; the exercise of, or right to exercise, supreme power; dominion; sway; supremacy; independence; also, that which is sovereign; a sovereign state; as, Italy was formerly divided into many sovereignties.

Sovran (a.) A variant of Sovereign.

Sow (v. i.) To sew. See Sew.

Sow (n.) The female of swine, or of the hog kind.

Sow (n.) A sow bug.

Sow (n.) A channel or runner which receives the rows of molds in the pig bed.

Sow (n.) The bar of metal which remains in such a runner.

Sow (n.) A mass of solidified metal in a furnace hearth; a salamander.

Sow (n.) A kind of covered shed, formerly used by besiegers in filling up and passing the ditch of a besieged place, sapping and mining the wall, or the like.

Sowed (imp.) of Sow

Sown (p. p.) of Sow

Sowed () of Sow

Sowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sow

Sow (v. t.) To scatter, as seed, upon the earth; to plant by strewing; as, to sow wheat. Also used figuratively: To spread abroad; to propagate.

Sow (v. t.) To scatter seed upon, in, or over; to supply or stock, as land, with seeds. Also used figuratively: To scatter over; to besprinkle.

Sow (v. i.) To scatter seed for growth and the production of a crop; -- literally or figuratively.

Sowans (n. pl.) See Sowens.

Sowar (n.) In India, a mounted soldier.

Sowbane (n.) The red goosefoot (Chenopodium rubrum), -- said to be fatal to swine.

Sowce (n. & v.) See Souse.

Sowdan (n.) Sultan.

Sowdanesse (n.) A sultaness.

Sowens (n. pl.) A nutritious article of food, much used in Scotland, made from the husk of the oat by a process not unlike that by which common starch is made; -- called flummery in England.

Sower (n.) One who, or that which, sows.

Sowins (n. pl.) See Sowens.

Sowl (v. t.) Alt. of Sowle

Sowle (v. t.) To pull by the ears; to drag about.

Sowl (v. i.) See Soul, v. i.

Sown () p. p. of Sow.

Sowne (v. t. & i.) To sound.

Sowse (n. & v.) See Souse.

Sowter (n.) See Souter.

Soy (n.) A Chinese and Japanese liquid sauce for fish, etc., made by subjecting boiled beans (esp. soja beans), or beans and meal, to long fermentation and then long digestion in salt and water.

Soy (n.) The soja, a kind of bean. See Soja.

Soyle (v. t.) To solve, to clear up; as, to soyl all other texts.

Soyle (n.) Prey.

Soyned (a.) Filled with care; anxious.

Sozzle (v. t.) To splash or wet carelessly; as, to sozzle the feet in water.

Sozzle (v. t.) To heap up in confusion.

Sozzle (n.) One who spills water or other liquids carelessly; specifically, a sluttish woman.

Sozzle (n.) A mass, or heap, confusedly mingled.

Spa (n.) A spring or mineral water; -- so called from a place of this name in Belgium.

Spaad (n.) A kind of spar; earth flax, or amianthus.

Space (n.) Extension, considered independently of anything which it may contain; that which makes extended objects conceivable and possible.

Space (n.) Place, having more or less extension; room.

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