Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 117
Sorcerous (a.) Of or pertaining to sorcery.
Sorcerous (a.) Possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers; "charming incantations"; "magic signs that protect against adverse influence"; "a magical spell"; "'tis now the very witching time of night" -- Shakespeare; "wizard wands"; "wizardly powers" [syn: charming, magic, magical, sorcerous, witching(a), wizard(a), wizardly].
Sorceries (n. 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.
Adder's wisdom I have learned, To fence my ear against thy sorceries. -- Milton.
Sord (n.) See Sward. [R.] -- Milton.
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.) (Mus.) A sordine.
Sordid (a.) Filthy; foul; dirty. [Obs.]
A sordid god; down from his hoary chin A length of beard descends, uncombed, unclean. -- Dryden.
Sordid (a.) Vile; base; gross; mean; as, vulgar, sordid mortals. "To scorn the sordid world." -- Milton.
Sordid (a.) Meanly avaricious; covetous; niggardly.
He may be old, And yet sordid, who refuses gold. -- Sir J. Denham.
Sordid (a.) Morally degraded; "a seedy district"; "the seamy side of life"; "sleazy characters hanging around casinos"; "sleazy storefronts with...dirt on the walls" -- Seattle Weekly; "the sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils"- James Joyce; "the squalid atmosphere of intrigue and betrayal" [syn: seamy, seedy, sleazy, sordid, squalid].
Sordid (a.) Unethical or dishonest; "dirty police officers"; "a sordid political campaign" [syn: dirty, sordid].
Sordid (a.) Foul and run-down and repulsive; "a flyblown bar on the edge of town"; "a squalid overcrowded apartment in the poorest part of town"; "squalid living conditions"; "sordid shantytowns" [syn: flyblown, squalid, sordid].
Sordid (a.) Meanly avaricious and mercenary; "sordid avarice"; "sordid material interests."
Sordidly (n.) Sordidness. [Obs.]
Sordidly (adv.) In a sordid manner.
Sordidly (adv.) In a sordid or squalid way [syn: sordidly, squalidly].
Sordidness (n.) The quality or state of being sordid.
Sordidness (n.) Sordid dirtiness [syn: sordidness, squalor, squalidness].
Sordidness (n.) Unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values [syn: baseness, sordidness, contemptibility, despicableness, despicability].
Sordine (n.) (Mus.) See Damper, and 5th Mute.
Sore (n.) Reddish brown; sorrel. [R.]
Sore falcon. (Zool.) See Sore, n., 1.
Sore (n.) (Zool.) A young hawk or falcon in the first year.
Sore (n.) (Zool.) A young buck in the fourth year. See the Note under Buck.
Sore (a.) Tender to the touch; susceptible of pain from pressure; inflamed; painful; -- said of the body or its parts; as, a sore hand.
Sore (a.) Fig.: Sensitive; tender; easily pained, grieved, or vexed; very susceptible of irritation.
Malice and hatred are very fretting and vexatious, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy. -- Tillotson.
Sore (a.) Severe; afflictive; distressing; as, a sore disease; sore evil or calamity. -- Shak.
Sore (a.) Criminal; wrong; evil. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Sore throat (Med.), Inflammation of the throat and tonsils; pharyngitis. See Cynanche.
Malignant sore throat, Ulcerated sore throat or Putrid sore throat. See Angina, and under Putrid.
Sore (n.) 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.
The dogs came and licked his sores. -- Luke xvi. 21.
Sore (n.) Fig.: Grief; affliction; trouble; difficulty. -- Chaucer.
I see plainly where his sore lies. -- Sir W. Scott.
Gold sore. (Med.) See under Gold, n.
Sore (adv.) In a sore manner; with pain; grievously.
Thy hand presseth me sore. -- Ps. xxxviii. 2.
Sore (adv.) Greatly; violently; deeply.
[Hannah] prayed unto the Lord and wept sore. -- 1 Sam. i. 10.
Sore sighed the knight, who this long sermon heard. -- Dryden.
Sore (a.) Hurting; "the tender spot on his jaw" [syn: sensitive, sore, raw, tender].
Sore (a.) Causing misery or pain or distress; "it was a sore trial to him"; "the painful process of growing up" [syn: afflictive, painful, sore].
Sore (a.) Roused to anger; "stayed huffy a good while"- Mark Twain; "she gets mad when you wake her up so early"; "mad at his friend"; "sore over a remark" [syn: huffy, mad, sore].
Sore (n.) An open skin infection.
Soredia (n.) pl. of Soredium.
Soredium (n.; pl. Soredia.) (Bot.) A patch of granular bodies on the surface of the thallus of
lichens.
Sorediate (a.) (Bot.) Sorediiferous. Sorediferous
Sordiferous (a.) Alt. of Sorediiferous
Sorediiferous (a.) (Bot.) Bearing soredia; sorediate.
Soredia (n. pl. ) of Soredium.
Soredium (n.) (Bot.) A patch of granular bodies on the surface of the thallus of lichens.
Sora (n.) (Zool.) 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.
King sora, The Florida gallinule.
Soree (n.) (Zool.) Same as Sora.
Sorehead (n.) One who is disgruntled by a failure in politics, or the like. [Slang, U.S.]
Sorehead (n.) Someone who is peevish or disgruntled.
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. -- Spenser.
Sorel (n.) (Zool.) A young buck in the third year. See the Note under Buck. -- Shak.
Sorel (n.) A yellowish or reddish brown color; sorrel.
Sorely (adv.) In a sore manner; grievously; painfully; as, to be sorely afflicted.
Sorely (adv.) To a great degree; "I missed him sorely"; "we were sorely taxed to keep up with them."
Sorely (adv.) In or as if in pain; "she moved painfully forward"; "sorely wounded" [syn: painfully, sorely] [ant: painlessly].
Sorema (n.) (Bot.) 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.
Soreness (n.) A pain that is felt (as when the area is touched); "the best results are generally obtained by inserting the needle into the point of maximum tenderness"; "after taking a cold, rawness of the larynx and trachea come on" [syn: tenderness, soreness, rawness].
Soreness (n.) An uncomfortable feeling of mental painfulness or distress [syn: discomfort, soreness, irritation].
Sorex (n.) (Zool.) A genus of small Insectivora, including the common shrews.
Sorex (n.) Type genus of the family Soricidae: shrews [syn: Sorex, genus Sorex].
Sorghe (n.) (Zool.) The three-beared rocking, or whistlefish. [Prov. Eng.]
Compare: Whistlefish
Whistlefish (n.) (Zool.) A gossat, or rockling; -- called also whistler, three-bearded rockling, sea loach, and sorghe.
Sorghum (n.) (Bot.) 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.) (Bot.) A variety of Sorghum vulgare, grown for its saccharine juice; the Chinese sugar cane.
Sorgo (n.) (Bot.) Indian millet and its varieties. See Sorghum.
Sori (n.) pl. of Sorus.
Sorus (n.; pl. Sori.) (Bot.) One of the fruit dots, or small clusters of sporangia, on the back of the fronds of ferns.
Sorus (n.; pl. Sori.) (a) In parasitic fungi, any mass of spores bursting
through the epidermis of a host plant.
Sorus (n.; pl. Sori.) (b) In lichens, a heap of soredia on the thallus.
Sorus (n.) A spore-producing structure in certain lichens and fungi.
Sorus (n.) Cluster of sporangia usually on underside of a fern frond.
Soricine (a.) (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Shrew family ({Soricidae); like a shrew in form or habits; as, the soricine bat ({Glossophaga soricina).
Sorites (n.) (Logic) 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 , as in following example:
The soul is a thinking agent; A thinking agent can not be severed into parts; That which can not be severed can not be destroyed; Therefore the soul can not be destroyed.
Note: When the series is arranged in the reverse order, it is called the Goclenian sorites, from Goclenius, a philosopher of the sixteenth century.
Destructive
sorities. See
under Destructive.
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. [Scot.] -- Sir W. Scott.
Sorner (n.) One who obtrudes himself on another for bed and board. [Scot.] -- De Quncey.
Sororal (a.) Relating to a sister; sisterly. [R.]
Sororicide (n.) The murder of one's sister; also, one who murders or kills one's own sister. --Johnson.
Sororize (v. i.) To associate, or hold fellowship, as sisters; to have sisterly feelings; -- analogous to fraternize. [Recent & R.]
Sorosis (n.) A woman's club; an association of women. [U. S.]
Sorosis (n.) (Bot.) 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. [Obs.] -- Bailey.
Sorrance (n.) Same as Sorance. [Obs.]
Sorrel (a.) Of a yellowish or redish brown color; as, a sorrel horse.
Sorrel (n.) A yellowish or redish brown color.
Sorrel (n.) (Bot.) One of various plants having a sour juice; especially, a plant of the genus Rumex, as Rumex Acetosa, Rumex Acetosella, etc.
Mountain sorrel. (Bot.) See under Mountain.
Red sorrel. (Bot.) (a) A malvaceous plant ({Hibiscus Sabdariffa) whose acid calyxes and capsules are used in the West Indies for making tarts and acid drinks.
Red sorrel. (Bot.) (b) A troublesome weed ({Rumex Acetosella), also called sheep sorrel.
Salt of sorrel (Chem.), Binoxalate of potassa; -- so called because obtained from the juice of Rumex Acetosella, or Rumex Axetosa.
Sorrel tree (Bot.), A small ericaceous tree ({Oxydendrum arboreum) whose leaves resemble those of the peach and have a sour taste. It is common along the Alleghanies. Called also sourwood.
Wood sorrel (Bot.), Any plant of the genus Oxalis.
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.
Thy pipe, O Pan, shall help, though I sing sorrily. -- Sir P. Sidney.
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. -- Milton.
How great a sorrow suffereth now Arcite! -- Chaucer.
The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment. -- Rambler.
Syn: Grief; unhappiness; regret; sadness; heaviness; mourning; affliction. See Affliction, and Grief.
Sorrowed (imp. & p. p.) of Sorrow.
Sorrowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sorrow.
Sorrow (v. i.) To feel pain of mind in consequence of evil experienced, feared, or done; to grieve; to be sad; to be sorry.
Sorrowing most of all . . . that they should see his face no more. -- Acts xx. 38.
I desire no man to sorrow for me. -- Sir J. Hayward.
Sorrowed (a.) Accompanied with sorrow; sorrowful. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Sorrowful (a.) Full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; dejected; distressed. "This sorrowful prisoner." -- Chaucer.
My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death. -- Matt. xxvi. 38.
Sorrowful (a.) Producing sorrow; exciting grief; mournful; lamentable; grievous; as, a sorrowful accident.
Syn: Sad; mournful; dismal; disconsolate; drear; dreary; grievous; lamentable; doleful; distressing. -- Sor"row*ful*ly, adv. -- Sor"row*ful*ness, n.
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. "I am sorry for my sins." -- Piers Plowman.
Ye were made sorry after a godly manner. -- 2 Cor. vii. 9.
I am sorry for thee, friend; 't is the duke's pleasure. -- Shak.
She entered, were he lief or sorry. -- Spenser.
Sorry (a.) Melancholy; dismal; gloomy; mournful. -- Spenser.
All full of chirking was this sorry place. -- Chaucer.
Sorry (a.) Poor; mean; worthless; as, a sorry excuse. "With sorry grace." -- Chaucer.
Cheeks of sorry grain will serve. -- Milton.
Good fruit will sometimes grow on a sorry tree. -- Sir W. Scott.
Syn: Hurt; afflicted; mortified; vexed; chagrined; melancholy; dismal; poor; mean; pitiful.
Sortes (n. pl. ) of Sors.
Sors (n.) [L.] A lot; also, a kind of divination by means of lots.
Sortes Homericae or Sortes Virgilianae [L., Homeric or Virgilian lots], A form of divination anciently practiced, which consisted in taking the first passage on which the eye fell, upon opening a volume of Homer or Virgil, or a passage drawn from an urn which several were deposited, as indicating future events, or the proper course to be pursued. In later times the Bible was used for the same purpose by Christians.
Sort (n.) Chance; lot; destiny. [Obs.]
By aventure, or sort, or cas [chance]. -- Chaucer.
Let blockish Ajax draw The sort to fight with Hector. -- Shak.
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.
Which for my part I covet to perform, In sort as through the world I did proclaim. -- Spenser.
Flowers, in such sort worn, can neither be smelt nor seen well by those that wear them. -- Hooker.
I'll deceive you in another sort. -- Shak.
To Adam in what sort Shall I appear? -- Milton.
I shall not be wholly without praise, if in some sort I have copied his style. -- Dryden.
Sort (n.) Condition above the vulgar; rank. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Sort (n.) A chance group; a company of persons who happen to be together; a troop; also, an assemblage of animals. [Obs.] "A sort of shepherds." -- Spenser. "A sort of steers." -- Spenser. "A sort of doves." -- Dryden. "A sort of rogues." -- Massinger.
A boy, a child, and we a sort of us, Vowed against his voyage. -- Chapman.
Sort (n.) A pair; a set; a suit. -- Johnson.
Sort (n.) pl. (Print.) Letters, figures, points, marks, spaces, or quadrats, belonging to a case, separately considered.
Out of sorts (Print.), With some letters or sorts of type deficient or exhausted in the case or font; hence, colloquially, out of order; ill; vexed; disturbed.
To run upon sorts (Print.), To use or require a greater number of some particular letters, figures, or marks than the regular proportion, as, for example, in making an index.
Syn: Kind; species; rank; condition.
Usage: Sort, Kind. Kind originally denoted things of the same family, or bound together by some natural affinity; and hence, a class. Sort signifies that which constitutes a particular lot of parcel, not implying necessarily the idea of affinity, but of mere assemblage. the two words are now used to a great extent interchangeably, though sort (perhaps from its original meaning of lot) sometimes carries with it a slight tone of disparagement or contempt, as when we say, that sort of people, that sort of language.
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.
Rays which differ in refrangibility may be parted
and sorted from one another. -- Sir I. Newton.
Sort (v. t.) To reduce to order from a confused state. -- Hooker.
Sort (v. t.) To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class.
Shellfish have been, by some of the ancients, compared and sorted with insects. -- Bacon.
She sorts things present with things past. -- Sir J. Davies.
Sort (v. t.) To choose from a number; to select; to cull.
That he may sort out a worthy spouse. -- Chapman.
I'll sort some other time to visit you. -- Shak.
Sort (v. t.) To conform; to adapt; to accommodate. [R.]
I pray thee, sort thy heart to patience. -- Shak.
Sort (v. i.) To join or associate with others, esp. with others of the same kind or species; to agree.
Nor do metals only sort and herd with metals in the earth, and minerals with minerals. -- Woodward.
The illiberality of parents towards children makes them base, and sort with any company. -- Bacon.
Sort (v. i.) To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize.
They are happy whose natures sort with their vocations. -- Bacon.
Things sort not to my will. -- herbert.
I can not tell you precisely how they sorted. -- Sir W. Scott.
Idiom:
Be out of sorts 有些不舒服；有點不高興 To be slightly ill or slightly unhappy.
// I've been feeling tired and headachy and generally out of sorts.
Sortable (a.) Capable of being sorted.
Sortable (a.) Suitable; befitting; proper. [Obs.] -- con.
Sortably (adv.) Suitable. [Obs.] -- otgrave.
Sortal (a.) Pertaining to a sort. [Obs.] -- Locke.
Sortance (n.) Suitableness; agreement. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Sorter (n.) One who, or that which, sorts.
Compare: Sors
Sors (n.; pl. Sortes.) [L.] A lot; also, a kind of divination by means of lots.
Sortes Homericae or Sortes Virgilianae [L., Homeric or Virgilian lots], A form of divination anciently practiced, which consisted in taking the first passage on which the eye fell, upon opening a volume of Homer or Virgil, or a passage drawn from an urn which several were deposited, as indicating future events, or the proper course to be pursued. In later times the Bible was used for the same purpose by Christians.
Sortes (n.) pl. of Sors.
Sortie (n.) (Mil.) 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.
A woman infamous for sortileges and witcheries. -- Sir W. Scott.