Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 118
Sortilegious (a.) Pertaining to sortilege.
Sortilegy (n.) Sortilege. [R.] -- De Quincey.
Sortition (n.) Selection or appointment by lot. [Obs.] -- Bp. Hall.
Sortition (n.) Making a chance decision by using lots (straws or pebbles etc.) that are thrown or drawn [syn: casting lots, drawing lots, sortition]
Sortment (n.) Assortiment. [Obs.]
Sori (n. pl. ) of Sorus.
Sorus (n.) (Bot.) One of the fruit dots, or small clusters of sporangia, on the back of the fronds of ferns.
Sorus (n.) In parasitic fungi, any mass of spores bursting through the epidermis of a host plant.
Sorus (n.) 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.
Sorwe (n. & v.) Sorrow. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Sorweful (a.) Sorrowful. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Sory (n.) (Old Min. Chem.) Green vitriol, or some earth imregnated with it.
So-so (a.) Neither very good nor very bad; middling; passable; tolerable; indifferent.
In some Irish houses, where things are so-so, One gammon of bacon hangs up for a show. -- Goldsmith.
He [Burns] certainly wrote some so-so verses to the Tree of Liberty. -- Prof. Wilson.
So-so (adv.) Tolerably; passably. -- H. James.
So-so (adv.) In an acceptable (but not outstanding) manner; "she plays tennis tolerably" [syn: acceptably, tolerably, so-so] [ant: intolerably, unacceptably].
So-so (a.) Being neither good nor bad; "an indifferent performance"; "a gifted painter but an indifferent actor"; "her work at the office is passable"; "a so-so golfer"; "feeling only so-so"; "prepared a tolerable dinner"; "a tolerable working knowledge of French" [syn: indifferent, so-so(p)].
Soso, MS -- U.S. town in Mississippi
Population (2000): 379
Housing Units (2000): 174
Land area (2000): 1.997583 sq. miles (5.173716 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.005898 sq. miles (0.015275 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.003481 sq. miles (5.188991 sq. km)
FIPS code: 69160
Located within: Mississippi (MS), FIPS 28
Location: 31.754465 N, 89.274120 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 39480
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Soso, MS
Soso
Soss (v. i.) To fall at once into a chair or seat; to sit lazily. [Obs.] -- Swift.
Soss (v. t.) To throw in a negligent or careless manner; to toss. [Obs.] -- Swift.
Soss (n.) A lazy fellow. [Obs.] -- Cotgrave.
Soss (n.) A heavy fall. [Prov. Eng.] -- Hallowell.
Soss (n.) Anything dirty or muddy; a dirty puddle. [Prov. Eng.]
Sostenuto (a.) [It.] (Mus.) 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. [Obs.] -- outh.
In Egypt oft has seen the sot bow down, And reverence some d?ified baboon. -- Oldham.
Sot (n.) A person stupefied by excessive drinking; an habitual drunkard. "A brutal sot." -- Granville.
Every sign That calls the staring sots to nasty wine. -- Roscommon.
Sot (a.) Sottish; foolish; stupid; dull. [Obs.] "Rich, but sot." -- Marston.
Sot (v. t.) To stupefy; to infatuate; to besot. [R.]
I hate to see a brave, bold fellow sotted. -- Dryden.
Sot (v. i.) To tipple to stupidity. [R.] -- Goldsmith.
Sot (n.) A chronic drinker [syn: drunkard, drunk, rummy, sot, inebriate, wino].
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. [Obs.] -- Chaucer. -- Fairfax. sotel
Sotel (a.) Alt. of Sotil
Sotil (a.) Subtile. [Obs.]
Soteriology (n.) A discourse on health, or the science of promoting and preserving health.
Soteriology (n.) (Theol.) The doctrine of salvation by Jesus Christ.
Soteriology (n.) The branch of Christian theology that deals with salvation as the effect of a divine agency.
Sothe (a.) Sooth. [Obs.] -- Chaucer. Sothiac
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.
Sothiac year, or Sothic year (Chronol.), The Egyptian year of 365 days and 6 hours, as distinguished from the Egyptian vague year, which contained 365 days. The Sothic period consists of 1,460 Sothic years, being equal to 1,461 vague years. One of these periods ended in July, a. d. 139.
Sotilte (n.) Subtlety. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Sotted () a. & p. p. of Sot. Befooled; deluded; besotted. [Obs.] "This sotted priest." -- Chaucer.
Sottery (n.) Folly. [Obs.] -- Gauden.
Sottish (a.) Like a sot; doltish; very foolish; drunken.
How ignorant are sottish pretenders to astrology! -- Swift.
Syn: Dull; stupid; senseless; doltish; infatuate. -- Sot"tish*ly, adv. -- Sot"tish*ness, n.
Sottish (a.) Given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol; "a bibulous fellow"; "a bibulous evening"; "his boozy drinking companions"; "thick boozy singing"; "a drunken binge"; "two drunken gentlemen holding each other up"; "sottish behavior" [syn: bibulous, boozy, drunken, sottish].
Sotto voce () [It.] (Mus.) With a restrained voice or moderate force; in an undertone.
Sotto voce () [It.] Spoken low or in an undertone.
Sotto voce (adv.) In an undertone; "he uttered a curse sotto voce" [syn: sotto voce, in a low voice].
Sous (n. pl. ) of Sou.
Sou (n.) An old French copper coin, equivalent in value to, and now.
displaced by, the five-centime piece (1/20 of a franc), which is popularly called a sou.
Sous, Souse (n.) A corrupt form of Sou. [Obs.] -- Colman, the Elder.
Souari nut () (Bot.) 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. [Written also sawarra nut.]
Compare: Butternut
Butternut (n.) (Bot.) An American tree ({Juglans cinerea) of the Walnut family, and its edible fruit; -- so called from the oil contained in the latter. Sometimes called oil nut and white walnut.
Butternut (n.) (Bot.) The nut of the Caryocar butyrosum and Caryocar nuciferum, of S. America; -- called also Souari nut.
Souari nut (n.) Large South American evergreen tree trifoliate leaves and drupes with nutlike seeds used as food and a source of cooking oil [syn: souari, souari nut, souari tree, Caryocar nuciferum].
Souari nut (n.) A large nutlike seed of a South American tree.
Soubah (n.) See Subah.
Soubahdar (n.) See Subahdar.
Soubrette (n.) [F.] 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.
Soubrette (n.) A pert or flirtatious young girl.
Soubrette (n.) A minor female role as a pert flirtatious lady's maid in a comedy.
Compare: Sobriquet
Sobriquet (n.) An assumed name; a fanciful epithet or appellation; a nickname. [Sometimes less correctly written soubriquet.].
Soubriquet (n.) See Sobriquet.
Soubriquet (n.) A familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name); "Joe's mother would not use his nickname and always called him Joseph"; "Henry's nickname was Slim" [syn: nickname, moniker, cognomen, sobriquet, soubriquet, byname].
Souce (n.) See 1st Souse.
Souce (v. t. & i.) See Souse. [Obs.] -- penser.
Compare: Souse
Souse (n.) [Written also souce, sowce, and sowse.] Pickle made with salt.
Souse (n.) Something kept or steeped in pickle; esp., the pickled ears, feet, etc., of swine.
And he that can rear up a pig in his house, Hath cheaper his bacon, and sweeter his souse. -- Tusser.
Souse (n.) The ear; especially, a hog's ear. [Prov. Eng.]
Souse (n.) The act of sousing; a plunging into water.
Souchong (n.) A kind of black tea of a fine quality.
Souchong (n.) A fine quality of black tea native to China [syn: souchong, soochong].
Soudan (n.) [F.] A sultan. [Obs.] Souded
Soudan (n.) A republic in northeastern Africa on the Red Sea; achieved independence from Egypt and the United Kingdom in 1956 [syn: Sudan, Republic of the Sudan, Soudan].
Soudan (n.) A region of northern Africa to the south of the Sahara and Libyan deserts; extends from the Atlantic to the Red Sea [syn: Sudan, Soudan].
Souded (a.) Alt. of Soudet.
Soudet (a.) United; consolidated; made firm; strengthened. [Obs.]
O martyr souded for virginity! -- Chaucer.
Souffle (n.) [F.] (Med.) A murmuring or blowing sound; as, the uterine souffle heard over the pregnant uterus.
Souffl'e (n.) (Cookery) 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. Soufflee
Souffl'e, (a.), p. p. of souffler to puff.] (Ceramics) Decorated with very small drops or sprinkles of color, as if blown from a bellows.
Souffl'e, (a.) (Cookery) Often.
Souffle (n.) Light fluffy dish of egg yolks and stiffly beaten egg whites mixed with e.g. cheese or fish or fruit.
Sough (n.) A sow. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Sough (n.) A small drain; an adit. [Prov. Eng.] -- W. M. Buchanan.
Sough (n.) The sound produced by soughing; a hollow murmur or roaring.
The whispering leaves or solemn sough of the forest. -- W. Howitt.
Sough (n.) Hence, a vague rumor or flying report. [Scot.]
Sough (n.) A cant or whining mode of speaking, especially in preaching or praying. [Scot.] -- Jamieson.
Sough (v. i.) To whistle or sigh, as the wind.
Sough (v.) Make a murmuring sound; "the water was purling" [syn: sough, purl].
Compare: Seek
Seek (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Sought; p. pr. & vb. n. Seeking.] To go in search of; to look for; to search for; to try to find.
The man saked him, saying, What seekest thou? And he said, I seek my brethren. -- Gen. xxxvii. 15, 16.
Seek (v. t.) To inquire for; to ask for; to solicit; to beseech.
Others, tempting him, sought of him a sign. -- Luke xi. 16.
Seek (v. t.) To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at; as, to seek wealth or fame; to seek one's life.
Seek (v. t.) To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to.
Seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal. -- Amos v. 5.
Since great Ulysses sought the Phrygian plains. -- Pope.
Sought () imp. & p. p. of Seek.
Sought (a.) That is looked for; "the long sought relatives"
Sought (a.) Being searched for; "the most sought-after item was the silver candelabrum" [syn: sought, sought-after(a)].
Souke (v. t. & i.) To suck. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Soul (a.) Sole. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Soul (v. i.) To afford suitable sustenance. [Obs.] -- Warner.
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." -- Tylor.
The eyes of our souls only then begin to see, when our bodily eyes are closing. -- Law.
Soul (n.) The seat of real life or vitality; the source of action; the animating or essential part. "The hidden soul of harmony." -- Milton.
Thou sun, of this great world both eye and soul. -- Milton.
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.
He is the very soul of bounty! -- Shak.
Soul (n.) Energy; courage; spirit; fervor; affection, or any other noble manifestation of the heart or moral nature; inherent power or goodness.
That he wants algebra he must confess; But not a soul to give our arms success. -- Young.
Soul (n.) A human being; a person; -- a familiar appellation, usually with a qualifying epithet; as, poor soul.
As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country. -- Prov. xxv. 25.
God forbid so many simple souls Should perish by the sword! -- Shak.
Now mistress Gilpin (careful soul). -- Cowper.
Soul (n.) A pure or disembodied spirit.
That to his only Son . . . every soul in heaven Shall bend the knee. -- Milton.
Soul (n.) A perceived shared community and awareness among African-Americans.
Soul (n.) Soul music.
Note: Soul is used in the formation of numerous compounds, most of which are of obvious signification; as, soul-betraying, soul-consuming, soul-destroying, soul-distracting, soul-enfeebling, soul-exalting, soul-felt, soul-harrowing, soul-piercing, soul-quickening, Soul-reviving, soul-stirring, soul-subduing, Soul-withering, etc.
Syn: Spirit; life; courage; fire; ardor.
Cure
of souls. See
Cure, n., 2.
Soul bell, The passing bell. -- Bp. Hall.
Soul foot. See Soul scot, below. [Obs.]
Soul scot or Soul shot. (O. Eccl. Law) A funeral duty paid in former times for a requiem for the soul. -- Ayliffe.
Soul (v. t.) To indue with a soul; to furnish with a soul or mind. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Soul (a.) By or for African-Americans, or characteristic of their culture; as, soul music; soul newspapers; soul food.
Soul (n.) The immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an individual life [syn: soul, psyche].
Soul (n.) A human being; "there was too much for one person to do" [syn: person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul].
Soul (n.) Deep feeling or emotion [syn: soul, soulfulness].
Soul (n.) The human embodiment of something; "the soul of honor."
Soul (n.) A secular form of gospel that was a major Black musical genre in the 1960s and 1970s; "soul was politically significant during the Civil Rights movement."
Soul, (n.) A spiritual entity concerning which there hath been brave disputation. Plato held that those souls which in a previous state of existence (antedating Athens) had obtained the clearest glimpses of eternal truth entered into the bodies of persons who became philosophers. Plato himself was a philosopher. The souls that had least contemplated divine truth animated the bodies of usurpers and despots. Dionysius I, who had threatened to decapitate the broad-browed philosopher, was a usurper and a despot. Plato, doubtless, was not the first to construct a system of philosophy that could be quoted against his enemies; certainly he was not the last.
"Concerning the nature of the soul," saith the renowned author of _Diversiones Sanctorum_, "there hath been hardly more argument than that of its place in the body. Mine own belief is that the soul hath her seat in the abdomen -- in which faith we may discern and interpret a truth hitherto unintelligible, namely that the glutton is of all men most devout. He is said in the Scripture to 'make a god of his belly' -- why, then, should he not be pious, having ever his Deity with him to freshen his faith? Who so well as he can know the might and majesty that he shrines? Truly and soberly, the soul and the stomach are one Divine Entity; and such was the belief of Promasius, who nevertheless erred in denying it immortality. He had observed that its visible and material substance failed and decayed with the rest of the body after death, but of its immaterial essence he knew nothing.
This is what we call the Appetite, and it survives the wreck and reek of mortality, to be rewarded or punished in another world, according to what it hath demanded in the flesh. The Appetite whose coarse clamoring was for the unwholesome viands of the general market and the public refectory shall be cast into eternal famine, whilst that which firmly through civilly insisted on ortolans, caviare, terrapin, anchovies, _pates de foie gras_ and all such Christian comestibles shall flesh its spiritual tooth in the souls of them forever and ever, and wreak its divine thirst upon the immortal parts of the rarest and richest wines ever quaffed here below. Such is my religious faith, though I grieve to confess that neither His Holiness the Pope nor His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury (whom I equally and profoundly revere) will assent to its dissemination."
All Souls' Day, () 追思亡者節 The second day of November; a feast day of the Roman Catholic church, on which supplications are made for the souls of the faithful dead.
Souled (a.) Furnished with a soul; possessing soul and feeling; -- used chiefly in composition; as, great-souled Hector. "Grecian chiefs . . . largely souled." -- Dryden.
Soulili (n.) (Zool.) 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.
Slave,
souless villain, dog! -- Shak.
Soulless (a.) Lacking sensitivity or the capacity for deep
feeling
Soullessly (adv.) In a soulless manner. -- Tylor.
Soullessly (adv.) In a soulless manner; "they were soullessly grubbing for profit."
Soun (n. & v.) Sound. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Sound (n.) The air bladder of a fish; as, cod sounds are an esteemed article of food.
Sound (n.) (Zool.) A cuttlefish. [Obs.] -- Ainsworth.
Sound (a.) 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 (a.) 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 (a.) Firm; strong; safe.
The brasswork here, how rich it is in beams, And how, besides, it makes the whole house sound. -- Chapman.
Sound (a.) Free from error; correct; right; honest; true; faithful; orthodox; -- said of persons; as, a sound lawyer; a sound thinker.
Do not I know you a favorer Of this new seat? Ye are nor sound. -- Shak.
Sound (a.) 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.
Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me. -- 2 Tim. i. 13.
Sound (a.) Heavy; laid on with force; as, a sound beating.
Sound (a.) Undisturbed; deep; profound; as, sound sleep.
Sound (a.) Founded in law; legal; valid; not defective; as, a sound title to land.
Note:
Sound is sometimes used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as,
sound-headed, sound-hearted, sound-timbered, etc.
Sound currency (Com.), A currency whose actual value is the same as its
nominal value; a currency which does not deteriorate or depreciate or fluctuate
in comparision with the standard of values.
Sound (adv.) Soundly.
So sound he slept that naught might him awake. -- Spenser.
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.
The Sound of Denmark, where ships pay toll. -- Camden.
Sound dues, Tolls formerly imposed by Denmark on vessels passing through the Baltic 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.
I was in jest, And by that offer meant to sound your breast. -- Dryden.
I've sounded my Numidians man by man. -- Addison.
Sound (v. t.) (Med.) 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.
I sound as a shipman soundeth in the sea with his plummet to know the depth of sea. -- Palsgrave.
Sound (n.) (Med.) 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.
The warlike sound Of trumpets loud and clarions. -- Milton.
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.
Note: In this sense, sounds are spoken of as audible and inaudible.
Sound (n.) Noise without signification; empty noise; noise and nothing else.
Sense and not sound . . . must be the principle. -- Locke.
Sound boarding, Boards for holding pugging, placed in partitions of under floors in order to deaden sounds.
Sound bow, In a series of transverse sections of a bell, that segment against which the clapper strikes, being the part which is most efficacious in producing the sound. See Illust. of Bell.
Sound post. (Mus.) See Sounding post, under Sounding.
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. "And first taught speaking trumpets how to sound." -- Dryden.
How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues! -- Shak.