SOOPING Sooping (söp'ing), n. [Scotch.] 1. The act of sweeping. 2. What is swept together: generally in the plural. Soord (sörd), n. The skin or outside of bacon. Bp. Hall. Soorma (sor'ma), n. A preparation of anti mony with which Indian women anoint the eyelids. Simmonds. Sooshong (sö-shong'), n. A kind of black tea. See SOUCHONG, Soosoo (sö'sö), n. The Bengalese name of a cetaceous mammal, the Platanista gangeticus. It resembles the dolphin in form, and attains a length of about 12 feet. It inhabits the Ganges; is most abundant in the sluggish waters of its delta, but is found also as far up the river as it is navigable. Soot (söt), n. [A. Sax. sót, Icel. sót, Dan. sod, L. G. sott. Comp. Gael. suith, Ir. suithche, suthche, soot.] A black substance formed by combustion, or disengaged from fuel in the process of combustion, rising in fine particles and adhering to the sides of the chimney or pipe conveying the smoke. The soot of coal and that of wood differ very materially in their composition, the former containing more carbonaceous matter than the latter. Coalsoot contains substances usually derived from animal matter; also sulphate and hydrochlorate of ammonia; and has been used for the preparation of the carbonate. contains likewise an empyreumatic oil; but its chief basis is charcoal, in a state in which it is capable of being rendered soluble by the action of oxygen and moisture; and hence, combined with the action of the ammoniacal salts, it is used as a manure, and acts very powerfully as such. The soot of wood has been minutely analysed, and found to consist of fifteen different substances, of which ulmin, nitrogenous matter, carbonate of lime, water, acetate and sulphate of lime, acetate of potash, carbonaceous matter insoluble in alkalies, are the principal. It Soot (söt), v. t. To cover or foul with soot. 'Sooted o'er with noisome smoke.' Chap man. Soote, Sote,t a. Sweet. Sir K. Digby, Sooterkin (sot'èr-kin), n. [Comp. Prov. E. and Sc. sotter, Prov. G. suttern, to boil gently.] A kind of false birth fabled to be produced by the Dutch women from sitting over their stoves; hence, an abortive proposal or scheme. Swift; Carlyle. Sootflake (söt'fläk), n. A flake or particle of soot; a smut; a smudge. The sootflake of so many a summer still Sooth (söth), n. [A. Sax. sóth, true, truth; Dan. sand, Icel. sannr, Goth. sunis, true. This word has lost an n; comp. tooth, soft. It would appear to have been originally a present participle, corresponding to Skr. sant, being, and therefore meaning lit. being,' or 'that is.'] 1. Truth; reality. He looks like sooth; he says he loves my daughter, I think so too. Used frequently in asseverations. Shak. Shak. Chau In sooth, I know not why I am so sad. 2. Prognostication. Spenser. Sooth (söth), a. 1. True; faithful. cer; Spenser.-2. Pleasing; delightful. Jellies soother than the creamy curd.' Keats. [Rare.-3. Cajolery; fairness of speech. That e'er this tongue of mine, That laid the sentence of dread banishment On this proud man, should take it off again With words of sooth. Shak. Soothe (söTH), v. t. pret. & pp. soothed; ppr. soothing. [A. Sax. gesóthian, to flatter, from soth, truth. (See SOOTH.) The original meaning would be to assent in a servile manner to another, to be ready in every case to assert that what he says is sooth.] 1. To please with blandishments or soft words; to cajole; to flatter; to humour. Is't good to soothe him in these contraries? Shak. I've tried the force of every reason on him, Sooth'd and caress'd, been angry, sooth'd again. Addison. 2. To soften; to assuage; to mollify; to calm; as, to soothe one in pain or passion, or to soothe pain. Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast. 3. To gratify; to please; to delight. 'Sooth'd with his future fame.' Dryden.-SYN. To soften, assuage, allay, compose, mollify, tranquillize, pacify, mitigate. Soother (SOTH ́er), n. One who or that 136 which soothes, softens, or assuages; a flatI do defy terer. Shak. The tongues of soothers. Soothfast (söth'fast), a. [Sooth and fast. Comp. steadfast.] True; truthful; of scrupulous veracity. Abandon all affray, be soothfast in your sawes, Mir for Mags. Soothfastness (söth'fast-nes), n. Truthfulness; reality. Soothing (SOTH'ing), p. and a. Flattering; softening; assuaging. Soothingly (SOTH'ing-li), adv. In a soothing manner; with flattery or soft words. Soothly (söth'li), adv. [A. Sax. sóthlice. See SOOTH.] In truth; really. Soothly to tell them I have seen your face.' Sir M. Hales. And but that God turne the same to good sooth-say, The ladie's safetie is sore to be dradd. Spenser. Soothsayer (söth'sa-er), n. One who foretells or predicts; a foreteller; a prognosticator. A soothsayer bids you beware the ides of March. Shak. Soothsaying (söth'să-ing), n. 1. A foretelling; a prediction. Divinations, and soothsayings, and dreams are vain. Ecclus. xxxiv. 5. 2. A true saying; truth. Sootiness (sot'i-nes), n. The quality of being sooty or foul with soot; fuliginousness. Sootish (söt'ish), a. Partaking of soot; like soot; sooty. Things become black and sootish.' Sir T. Browne. Sooty (söt'i), a. [See SOOT.] Pertaining to, producing, consisting of, covered with, containing, or resembling soot; fuliginous; dusky; dark. By fire of sooty coal.' Milton. Under the sooty flag of Acheron.' Milton. Sooty (söt'i), v.t. To black or foul with soot. 'Sootied with noisome smoke.' Chap man. Sop (sop), n. [Closely connected with sup, soup; Icel. soppa, sopi, a sop, a sup; Sw. soppa, broth, soup; D. sop, L.G. soppe, a sop.] 1. Anything steeped or dipped and softened in liquor, but chiefly something thus dipped in broth or liquid food, and intended to be eaten. The waters should make a sop of all this solid globe.' Shak. Sops in wine, quantity for quantity, inebriate more than wine itself. Bacon. 2. Anything given to pacify: so called from the sop given to Cerberus to pacify him, in the ancient story. To Cerberus they give a sop, Swift. His triple barking mouth to stop. Sops were given to the congressional watch-dogs of the free states. To some, promises were made, by way of opiates; and those whom they could neither pay nor drug were publicly treated with insolence and scorn. W. Chambers. 3. A thing of little or no value. Piers Plow man-Sop in wine,t the clove-pink (Dianthus Caryophyllus), probably because it was dipped in wine to give it flavour. Spenser. Sop (sop), v.t. pret. & pp. sopped; ppr. sopping. To steep or dip in liquor. Sopet (sõp). Soap. Soper, n. Supper. Chaucer. Soph (sof), n. [L. sophista. See SOPHISM.] 1. In the English universities, abbreviation of Sophister. Three Cambridge sophs, and three pert Templars came,... Each prompt to query, answer, and debate. Pope. 2. In the American colleges, abbreviation of Sophomore. Sophi (sõ’fi), n. A title of the king of Persia. Same as Soft. Sophic, Sophicalt (sof'ik, sof'ik-al), a. [Gr. sophos, wise, sophia, wisdom.] Teaching wisdom. Harris. Sophime,+ n. Chaucer. Sophism (sof'izm), n. [Fr. sophisme, from Gr. sophisma, a clever or cunning contrivance, a trick, a quibble such as the sophists used, a sophism, from sophizomai, to play the sophist, from sophos, clever, skilful, wise.] A specious proposition; a specious but fallacious argument; a sublety in reasoning; an argument that is not supported by sound reasoning, or in which the inference is not justly deduced from the premises; any fallacy designed to deceive. 'Full of subtile A sophism; a subtle fallacy. SOPHISTICATION sophisms which do play with double senses and false debate.' Spenser. When a false argument puts on the appearance of a true one, then it is properly called a sophism or fallacy. Walls. If such miserable sophisms were to prevail, there would never be a good house or a good government in the world. Macaulay. Sophist (sof'ist), n. [L. sophista, from Gr. sophistes, a sophist. See SOPHISM.] 1. Originally, a wise man; a clever man; one who stood prominently before the public as distinguished for intellect or talent of some kind; specifically, in Greek hist, one of a class of leading public teachers in ancient Greece during the fifth and fourth centuries B. C. At first there were found among this class men of the highest accomplishments that the age could furnish, who taught whatever was known of astronomy, geography, and physics, as well as the newly started controversial discussions in ethics and metaphysics, and the general public comprehended under this name Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and their disciples and followers. As the professional teachers, however, unlike the philosophers named, taught for pay, and as their ranks became swelled by shallow and superficial associates, the title sophist gradually acquired a predominating bad sense, coming to mean, in the language of Aristotle, a pretender to knowledge, a man who employs what he knows to be fallacy, for the purpose of deceit and of getting money,' and the members of the profession were publicly condemned as men who spent their time in verbal niceties, verbal quibbles, and philosophical enigmas. - 2. A captious or fallacious reasoner; a quibbler. Sophister (sof'ist-ér), n. [See SOPHIST.] 1. A professional teacher of philosophy; a sophist; hence, a quibbling disputant; a plausible fallacious reasoner. Shak. A subtle traitor needs no sophister. Alcidimus the sophister hath arguments to prove that voluntary and extemporal far excelleth premedi tated speech. Hooker. 2. In the University of Cambridge, a student advanced beyond the first year of his residence. The entire university course consists of three years and one term. During the first year the students have the title of freshmen, or first-year men; during the second, second-year men, or junior sophs or sophisters; during the third year, third-year men, or senior sophs or sophisters; and in the last term, questionists, with reference to the approaching examination. In the older American colleges, the junior and senior classes were originally-and in some of them are still- called junior sophisters and senior sophisters. Sophister † (sof'ist-ér), v.t. To maintain by a fallacious argument or sophistry. Fore. Sophistic, Sophistical (so-fis'tik, sō-fis'tikal), a. [Fr. sophistique. See SOPHISM.] Fallaciously subtle; containing sophistry; not sound; quibbling; as, sophistical reasoning or argument. False pretence and sophistic reasoning. Burke. The His argument, though ingenious, is altogether so phistical Macaulay. Sophistically (so-fis'tik-al-li), adv. In a sophistical manner; fallaciously. 'Bolingbroke argues most sophistically. Swift. Sophisticalness (so-fis'tik-al-nes), n. state or quality of being sophistical. Sophisticate (sō-fis'tik-at), v. t. pret. &pp. sophisticated; ppr. sophisticating. [LL. sophisticare, from L. sophisticus, sophistical; lit. pertaining to a sophist. See SOPHIST. } 1. To corrupt; to pervert; to wrest from the truth. If the passions of the mind be strong they easily sophisticate the understanding. Hooker. The only persons among the heathens who sophisticated nature and philosophy in this particular were the Stoicks. South. 2. To adulterate; to render spurious by admixture; as, to sophisticate liquors. They purchase but sophisticated ware. Dryden. SYN. To adulterate, debase, corrupt, vitiate. Sophisticate, Sophisticated (sō-fis'tik-åt, so-fis'tik-at-ed), a. Adulterated; not pure; not genuine. So truth, when only one supplied the state. Sophistication (so-fis'ti-ka"shon), n. 1. The act of adulterating; a counterfeiting or debasing the purity of something by a foreign admixture; adulteration. The drugs and simples sold in shops generally are adulterated by the fraudulent avarice of the sellers, especially if the preciousness may make their sophiatication very beneficial. Boyle. SOPHISTICATOR 2 The act or art of quibbling or arguing in a plausible or fallacious manner. 'Skill in special pleading and ingenuity in sophistication.' Mrs. Coreden Clarke.-3. A fallacious argument intended to deceive; a quibble. They are both as rank sophistications as can be; sheer beggings of the question. L. Hunt. One who Sophisticator (sõ-fis'tik-at-ér), n. sophisticates; one who adulterates; one who injures the purity and genuineness of anything by foreign admixture. That the 80phisticators of wine may suffer punishment above any ordinary thief. Tob. Whitaker. Sophistry (sof'ist-ri), n. 1. Fallacious reasoning, reasoning sound in appearance only. These men have obscured and confounded the na ture of things by their false principles and wretched sophistry. South. 2. Argument for exercise merely. Felton. -Fallacy, Sophistry. See under FALLACY. Sophomore (sof'o-mor), n. [From Gr. sophos, wise, and moros, foolish.] In American colleges, one belonging to the second of the four classes; one next above a fresh man. Sophomoric, Sophomorical (sof-ō-morʻik, sof-o-morik-al), a. Pertaining to a sophomore; inflated in style or manner. [American.] Sophora (so-fo'ra), n. [Altered from sophēra, the Arabic name of a papilionaceous tree.] A genus of plants, nat. order Leguminosa. The species are ornamental shrubs and trees, found in central and tropical Asia, also in the warm parts of North America, and the equinoctial and sub-tropical parts of South America They have pinnate leaves, and terminal racemes or panicles of whitish flowers, but differ greatly in general appearance, some being trees, others shrubs, and one or two herbaceous plants. The species best known in England are S. japonica and S. chinensis. Sophta (sof'ta). See SOFTA. Sopitet (sopit), v.t. [L. sopio, sopitum, to put to sleep. See SOPORIFEROUS] To lay asleep; to put to sleep or to rest; to lull. *Disputes arising concerning religion, which were not then quite sopited.' A. Wood Sopiting (so'pit-ing), n. In Scots law, setting at rest; quashing. What could a woman desire in a match more than the softing of a very dangerous claim and the alli ance of a son-in-law noble, brave, well-gifted, and highly connected. Sir IV. Scott. Sopition (so-pish'on), n. [See SOPITE.] The state of being put to sleep; sleep; slumber; dormancy. Dementation and sopition of reason. Sir T. Browne. Sopor (so'por), n. [L.] A deep sleep from which a person can with difficulty be awakened. To awake the Christian world out of this deep sopor or lethargy.' Dr. H. More. Soporate † (sõ'por-āt), v.t. [L. soporo, soporatum, to put asleep. See SOPORIFEROUS] To lay asleep. Soporiferous (so-po-rif'ér-us), a. [L. soporifer-sopor, soporis, a heavy sleep, and fero, to bear, to bring. Sopor is from the root sop (whence also somnus, sleep), Skr. soap, to sleep.] Causing sleep or tending to produce it; soporific. While the whole operation was performing I lay in a profound sleep by the force of that soporiferous medicine. Swift. Soporiferously (só-pō-rif'èr-us-li), adv. In a soporiferous manner; so as to produce sleep. Soporiferousness (sõ-pō-rif'èr-us-nes), n. The quality of being soporiferous or of causing sleep. Soporific (so-pō-rif'ik), a. [L. sopor, sleep, and facio, to make.] Causing sleep; tending to cause sleep; as, the soporific virtues of opium. The clear harangue, and cold as it is clear, Falls soporific on the listless ear. Cowper. Soporific (só-pō-rif'ik), n. A medicine, drug, plant, or other thing that has the quality of inducing sleep. Soporous, Soporose (so'por-us, so'por-os), 4 L soporus, from sopor, sleep.] Causing sleep: sleepy. Sopper (sop'er), n. One who sops or dips in It (Yarmouth) looked rather spongy and soppy, I thought Dickens. Sopra (so'pra) [It, from L. supra, above.] In music, a term sometimes used to denote the upper or higher part; as, nella parte di sopra, in the upper part; di sopra, above. 137 In Sopranist (so-pra'nist), n. A treble singer. Soprano (so-pra'no), n. It. pl. Soprani (so'pra'ne), E. pl. Sopranos (sō-pra'nóz). music, (a) the highest species of female voice, whose ordinary easy range is from C below the treble staff to G or A above it. Highly trained voices can frequently take four notes higher, some even reaching to F in alt. The mezzo-soprano compass is about a third lower, viz. from A to F. (b) A singer having such a voice. In both senses equivalent to Treble, the English term, which is falling out of use among musicians. Sorance t (sōrans), n. Sore; soreness. Seldom or never complain they of any sorance in other parts of the body. Holland. Sorb, Sorb-tree (sorb, sorb'trē), n. [Fr. sorbe, L. sorbus, the sorb or service-tree. The service-tree (Sorbus domestica) or its fruit. The fruit of the Sorb-apple (sorb'ap-1), n. service-tree. Sorbate (sor'båt), n. A salt of sorbic acid. Sorbefacient (sor-be-fa'shi-ent), n. [L. sorbeo, to absorb, and facio, to make.] In med. that which produces absorption. Sorbefacient (sor-be-fa'shi-ent), a. In med. producing absorption. Sorbent (sorb'ent). An absorbent. [Rare.] A kind of beverage; Sorbet (sorbet), n. sherbet. Smollett. Sorbic (sorbik), a. Pertaining to the sorbus or service-tree; as, sorbic acid.-Sorbic acid (CHO), an acid obtained from mountain-ash berries. Sorbilet (sor'bil), a. [L. sorbeo, to absorb.] That may be drank or sipped. Sorbine, Sorbite (sor'bin, sor'bit), n. (Ce H12O6) A crystalline, unfermented sugar, isomeric with grape and milk sugar, existing in the ripe juice of the mountain-ash berries (Pyrus Aucuparia). Sorbitiont (sor-bi'shon), n. [L. sorbitio, sorbitionis, from sorbeo, to drink.] The act of drinking or sipping. Sorbonical (sor-bon'ik-al), a. Belonging to a Sorbonist. Hudibras. Sorbonist (sorbon-ist), n. A doctor of the Sorbonne, in the University of Paris. For he a rope of sand could twist As tough as learned Sorbonist. Sorbonne (sor-bon), n. A celebrated institution founded in connection with the University of Paris in 1252 by Robert de Sorbon, chaplain and confessor of Louis IX. The college of the Sorbonne was one of the four constituent parts of the faculty of theology in the University of Paris. It exercised a high influence in ecclesiastical affairs and on the public mind, especially in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It was suppressed during the revolution and deprived of its endowments. At the reconstruction of the university in 1808 the building erected for it by Richelieu, and still called the Sorbonne, was given to the theological faculty in connection with the faculties of science and belles-lettres. Sorbus (sorbus), n. A Linnæan genus of plants, comprising the mountain-ash, rowantree, and service-tree. See PYRUS, MOUNTAIN-ASH, SERVICE-TREE. Sorcerer (sor'sér-èr), n. [Fr. sorcier, a sorcerer, from L.L. sortiarius, one who throws a lot or declares a lot, from L. sors, sortis, a lot (whence also sort). As to the form of this word comp. fruiterer, Fr. fruitier.] A conjuror; an enchanter; a magician. 'Drugworking sorcerers that change the mind.' Shak The Egyptian sorcerers contended with Moses. Watts. Sorceress (sor'sér-es), n. A female sorcerer. Bring forth that sorceress condemn'd to burn. Shak. Sorcerous (sor'sèr-us), a. Pertaining or belonging to sorcery. 'Med'cines black and sorcerous.' Chapman. Sorcery (sor'sèr-i), n. [O. Fr. sorcerie. See SORCERER.] Divination by the assistance or supposed assistance of evil spirits, or the power of commanding evil spirits; magic; enchantment; witchcraft; charms. So much of adder's wisdom I have learn'd To fence my ears against thy sorceries. Milton. Sord (sörd), n. Sward. 'An altar rustic of grassy sord. Milton. Sordavalite (sor'da-val-it), n. A mineral, so named from Sordavala, in Finland. It is nearly black, rarely gray or green; and contains silica, alumina, magnesia, and peroxide of iron. Sordes (sor'děz), n. [L.] Foul matter; excretions; dregs; filthy, useless, or rejected SOREDIFEROUS matter of any kind. The soil and sordes wherein mineral masses were involved and concealed.' Woodward. Sordet (sor'det), n. Same as Sordine. Sordid (sor'did), a. [Fr. sordide, from L. sordidus, from sordeo, to be dirty, foul, filthy, from sordes, dirt, filth, nastiness.] 1. Filthy; foul; dirty; gross. [Obsolete or poetical.] There Charon stands, who rules the dreary coast; A sordid god. Dryden. 2. Vile; base; mean; as, vulgar, sordid mortals.-3. Meanly avaricious; covetous; niggardly. He may be old And yet not sordid, who refuses gold. Sir F. Denham. SYN. Filthy, foul, dirty, gross, vile, base, avaricious, covetous, niggardly. Sordidity (sor-did'i-ti), n. Sordidness; meanness; abjectness. Weary and ashamed of their own sordidity and manner of life.' Burton. Sordidly (sor'did-li), adv. In a sordid manner; meanly; basely; covetously. Sordidness (sor'did-nes), n. The state or quality of being sordid; as, (a) filthiness; dirtiness. Providence deters people from sluttishness and serdidness, and provokes them to cleanliness. Kay. (b) Meanness; baseness. The madnesses of Caligula's delights, and the execrable sordidness of those of Tiberius.' Cowley. (c) Niggardliness. Sordine (sor'dēn), n. A mute for a musical instrument. See MUTE, 3. Sordino (sor-de'nō), n. [It] Same as Sordine. Con sordini, with the mutes on.Senza sordini, with the mutes off. Sore (sör), a. [A. Sax. sûr, sore, painful, also a sore, sorrow, pain; Icel. sárr, sore, aching, painful, sár, a sore, a wound; Dan. saar, Goth. sair, a wound; O.H.G. sér, grief, a wound; Sc. sair, sare, sore, heavy, excessive. Of same origin is sorry, while sorrow is connected.] 1. Painful; being the seat of pain; tender and painful from pressure; as, a boil, ulcer, or abscess is very sore; a wounded place is sore; inflammation renders a part sore. 'A sore eye.' Shak. 'His wounds will not be sore.' Shak.-2. Tender, as the mind; easily pained, grieved, or vexed; feeling aggrieved; galled; as, he felt very sore on the subject of his defeat. Malice and hatred are very fretting, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy. Tillotson. 3. Violent with pain or trouble; severe; grievous; distressing; as, a sore disease; sore evil or calamity; a sore night. 'Punished with sore distraction.' Shak. My loins are filled with a sore disease. Common Prayer. 4. Violent; accompanied with great exertion; severe. Sore hath been their fight As likeliest was when two such foes met armed. Milton. 5. Criminal; evil. To lapse in fulness is sorer than to lie for need. Sore (sōr), n. [See above.] 1. A place in an animal body where the skin and flesh are ruptured or bruised, so as to be tender or painful; a spot on the surface of the body where there is pain; a boil, an ulcer, a wound, &c. 'A salve for any sore.' Shak.— 2. Grief; affliction; mental pain or trouble. Sore (sör), adv. [A. Sax. sare. See the adjective.] 1. With painful violence; intensely; severely; grievously. Thy hand presseth me sore. Common Prayer. 2. Greatly; violently; deeply; as, he was sore afflicted at the loss of his son. Sore sigh'd the knight, who this long sermon heard. Dryden. 3. Sorely; sadly. That whereas through our sins and wickedness we are sore let and hindered in running the race set before us. Kingsley. Soret (sōr), v.t. To wound; to make sore. And the wyde wound.. Was closed up as it had not been sor'd Spenser. Sore, v.i. To soar. Chaucer. Sore (sōr), n. [Fr. saure, sor, sorrel, reddish. Both bird and quadruped are so called from their colour.] 1. A hawk of the first year. 2. A buck of the fourth year. See SOREL. Sorecidæ, Soricidæ (sō-res'i-dē, sō-ris’i-dē), n. pl. [L. sorex, soricis, a shrew-mouse, and Gr. eidos, resemblance. ] A family of insectivorous mammals, comprehending the shrews, shrew-mice, musk-rats, &c. Sorediferous (sō-rē-dif ́ér-us), a. [Soredium, and L. fero, to bear.] In bot. bearing soredia. SOREDIUM Soredium (so-re'di-um), n. pl. Soredia (sore'di-a). [From Gr. soros, a heap.] In bot. one of the little mealy patches scattered over the surface of the thallus in lichens. Sore-falcon (sor'fa-kn), n. A falcon of the first year. See SORE, a hawk. Sorehon (sor'hon), n. In Ireland, formerly a tax imposed upon tenants for the maintenance of their lord or his men; a custom which subjected a tenant to maintain his chieftain gratuitously, whenever the latter wished. Spenser. Sorel (sor'el), n. [Dim. of sore, a buck.] 1. A buck of the third year, the order being fawn, pricket, sorel, sore.-2. The colour sorrel. Sorel (sorel), a. Same as Sorrel. Sorely (sor'li), adv. In a sore manner; grievously; greatly; violently; severely; as, to be sorely pressed with want; to be sorely wounded. Soreness (sōr'nes), n. The state of being sore; as, (a) tenderness; painfulness; as, the soreness of a boil, an abscess, or wound. (b) Tenderness of mind or susceptibility of mental pain; the state of having the feelings galled. The soreness of his late pangs of conscience.' Dr. H. More. Sorex (sō'reks), n. A genus of insectivorous mammals, the type of the family Sorecida, including the shrew-mice. Sorghum (sor'gum), n. [From sorghi, its Indian name.] A genus of grasses, the species of which are known by the general name millet. They are tall grasses with succulent stems, and are found in the tropical parts of Asia, whence they have spread to the warmer parts of Europe. S. vulgare is the largest of the small cereal grains, and is called guinea- corn and Indian millet. The different kinds are called jowar in India, where many of the inhabitants live upon these small dry grains, as upon rice. It has been introduced into the south of Europe, where it is chiefly used for feeding cattle and poultry, but it is also made into cakes. Soricidæ, n. See SORECIDE. Sorghum vulgare (Indian millet). Sorites (so-ri'těz), n. [L., Gr. söreites, from soros, a heap.] In logic, an abridged form of stating a series of syllogisms in a series of propositions so linked together that the predicate of each one that precedes forms the subject of each one that follows, till a conclusion is formed by bringing together the subject of the first proposition and the predicate of the last. Thus: All men of revenge have their souls often uneasy. Uneasy souls are a plague to themselves. Now to be one's own plague is folly in the extreme. Therefore all men of revenge are extreme fools. A sorites has as many middle terms as there are intermediate propositions between the first and the last; and, consequently, it may be drawn out into as many syllogisms. Soritical (so-rit'ik-al), a. Pertaining to or resembling a sorites. Sorn (sorn), v.i. [Perhaps from O. Fr. sorner, to play tricks, to jest, to cheat.] To obtrude one's self on another for bed and board. [Scotch.] Sorner (sor'ner), n. One who sorns; one who obtrudes himself on another for bed and board. In Scots law, one who takes meat and drink from others by force or menaces without paying for it. This offence was formerly so prevalent in Scotland that the severest penalties were enacted against it, and at one period it was punishable with death. Sororal (so-ro'ral), a. [L. soror, sister.] Of or pertaining to a sister or sisters; sisterly. 'The sororal relation.' H. Mann. Sororicide (so-ro'ri-sid), n. [L. soror, sister, and cædo, to strike, to kill.] 1. The murder of a sister.-2. The murderer of a sister. [Rare.] Sororize (sor'o-riz), v.i. [L. soror, sister: on type of fraternize.] To associate as sisters; to be in communion or sympathy, as sisters. [Rare.] Sorosis (so-ro'sis), n. [From Gr. soros, a 138 heap.] In bot. a name applied to a fleshy mass composed of many flowers, seed-vessels, and receptacles consolidated so as to form an anthocarpus or compound fruit, as pine-apple, bread-fruit, mulberry. Sorraget (sor'aj), n. [Probably from Fr. sur, above.] The blades of green wheat or barley. Sorrancet (sor'ans), n. Same as Sorance. Sorrel (sorel), a. (A dim. form from O. Fr. sor, sore, sorrel: origin doubtful.] Of a reddish or yellowish brown colour; as, a sorrel horse. Sorrel (sor'el), n. A reddish or yellow brown colour. Sorrel (sorel), n. [Fr. surelle, a species of sorrel, from O.H.G. sûr, sour. See SOUR.] The popular name of certain species of Rumex, as R. Acetosa, R. Acetosella, &c., so named from its acid taste. (See RUMEX.) The wood sorrel is Oxalis Acetosella; the mountain sorrel is Oxyria reniformis; the red or Indian sorrel is Hibiscus Sabdariffa. -Sorrel tree, a North American tree of the genus Andromeda, the A. arborea, which sometimes attains the height of 50 feet. It is well adapted for an ornamental plant.Salt of sorrel, binoxalate of potash. Sorrily (sor'i-li), adv. In a sorry or wretched manner; meanly; despicably; pitiably. Thy pipe, O Pan, shall help, though I sing sorrily. Sir P. Sidney. Sorriness (sor'i-nes), n. The state or quality of being sorry or pitiful; meanness; poorness; despicableness. Sorrow (soro), n. [O.E. sorwe, sorewe, A. Sax. sorg, sorh, care, sorrow; Icel. Dan. and Sw. sorg, G. sorge, Goth. saurga-sorrow. From same root as sore, sorry.] The uneasiness or pain of mind which is produced by the loss of any good, real or supposed, or by disappointment in the expectation of good; grief at having suffered or occasioned evil; regret; sadness; mourning. Why, I am sorry for thee, gentle Silvius.Wherever sorrow is relief would be. Shak. This is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. Tennyson. -Affliction, Grief, Sorrow. See under AFFLICTION. SYN. Affliction, grief, sadness, mourning. Sorrow (sor'o), v.i. [See the noun.] To be affected with sorrow; to suffer mental pain from evil experienced, feared, or done; to feel sorry; to grieve; to be sad. Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance. 2 Cor. vii. 9. Fortune had left to both of us alike SYN. To grieve, mourn, weep, lament, be wail. Sorrowedt (sor'öd), pp. Accompanied with sorrow; full of sorrow. Shak. Sorrowful (sor'o-ful), a. 1. Full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; depressed; dejected. 'A woman of a sorrowful spirit.' 1 Sam. i. 15. 'Old Titus' sorrowful house. Shak.-2. Producing sorrow; exciting grief; mournful; as, a sorrowful accident.-3. Expressing grief; accompanied with grief. Sorrowful meat.' Job vi. 7.-SYN. Sad, mournful, dismal, disconsolate, drear, dreary, grievous, lamentable, doleful, baleful, distressing. Sorrowfully (sor'o-ful-li), adv. In a sorrowful manner; in a manner to produce grief. Sorrowfulness (sor'o-ful-nes), n. State of being sorrowful; grief. Sorrowless (sor'ō-les), a. Without sorrow. Sorry (sor'i), a. [A. Sax. sûrig, sari, from sar, sore. See SORE.] 1. Grieved for the loss of some good; pained for some evil experienced, apprehended, or done: often used as expressing slight or transient regret; as, I am sorry you cannot come; he is sorry he cannot accommodate you. I am sorry for thee, friend; 'tis the duke's pleasure. Shak. 2. Melancholy; dismal; mournful; sad. 'A sorry sight as ever seen with eye.' Spenser. 'The place of death and sorry execution.' Shak.-3. Poor; mean; vile; worthless; as, a sorry slave; a sorry excuse. 'Coarse complexions and cheeks of sorry grain.' Milton. A slight and sorry business.' Bentley.SYN. Afflicted, mortified, vexed, chagrined, mean, vile, poor, worthless, paltry. Sort (sort), n. [Fr. sorte, sort, kind, species, from L. sors, sortis, a lot, condition; also Fr. sort, lot, fate, from same Latin word.] 1. A kind or species; any number or collection of individual persons or things characterized by the same or like qualities; a class SORTES or order; as, a sort of men; a sort of horses; a sort of trees; a sort of poems or writings We are spirits of another sort. Shak Things are ranked under names into rerts or species only as they agree to certain abstract ideas. Locke. 2. Manner; form of being or acting. Flowers, in such sort worn, can neither be smelt Hooker nor seen well by those that wear them. Milton To Adam in what sort shall I appear? Is there no sort of condoning a mistake in the world? W. Black 3. Degree of any quality. I shall not be wholly without praise, if in some rest I have copied his style. Dryden 4. A number or collection of things which are of the same kind or suited to each other, or which are used together; a set; a suit. Johnson.-5.† Condition above the vulgar; rank. Is signior Montanto returned from the wars?-! know none of that name, lady; there was none such in the army of any sort. Shak 6. A company or knot of people; a flock; a troop. Spenser. Some mile o' this town, we were set upon 7. Lot; chance; fate; destiny. Chaucer. No, make a lottery, Shak And by device, let blockish Ajax draw The sort to fight with Hector. -Out of sorts, (a) in printing, out of type of a particular letter. (b) Out of order; not in one's usual state of health; unwell [Colloq.] Sort (sort), v.t. 1. To separate, as things having like qualities, from other things, and place them in distinct classes or divisions; to assort; to arrange; as, to sort cloths according to their colours; to sort wool or thread according to its fineness. Shell fish have been by some of the ancients compared and sorted with insects. Bacen Rays which differ in refrangibility may be parted and sorted from one another. Newton. 2. To reduce to order from a state of confusion. 'But God sort all!' Shak.-3. To conjoin; to put together in distribution. 'When she sorts things present with things past. Sir J. Davies.-4. To choose from a number; to select. Send his mother to his father's house, 5. To suit; to render conformable; to conform; to accommodate. I pray thee sort thy heart to patience. Shak 6. To assign; to appropriate. Shak.-7. To correct by stripes; to punish; to chastise [Scotch.] Sort (sort), v.i. 1. To be joined with others of the same species. Nor do metals only sort with metals in the earth, and minerals with minerals. Woodward. 2. To consort; to associate. The illiberality of parents toward children makes them base, and sort with any company. Bacon. 3. To suit; to fit. They are happy whose natures sort with their vocations. Bacon. 4. To terminate; to issue; to have success; to fall out. Things sort not to my will." Herbert.-5. To agree; to come to an agreement. Sortable (sort'a-bl), a. 1. Capable of being sorted.-2. Suitable; befitting. Nothing sortable either to his disposition or breeding. Howell. Sortably (sort'a-bli), adv. Suitably; fitly. Sortalt (sort'al), a. Pertaining to or designating a sort. Locke. Sortancet (sort'ans), n. Suitableness; agreement. Shak. Sorter (sort'ér), n. One who separates and arranges; as, a letter-sorter; a wool-sorter. Sortes (sortez), n. pl. [L., pl. of sors, lot, decision by lot.] A kind of divination by the chance selection of a passage from an author's writings. This was a practice common in ancient times and in the middle ages. The method pursued by the ancients was generally to write a number of verses of a favourite poet on separate slips, put them in an urn, draw out one at random, and from its contents infer good or bad fortune. This means of arriving at a knowledge of the future was known as Sortes Homerica, Sortes Virgilianæ, &c., according to the name of the poet from whose works the lines were chosen. Among the Christians of the middle ages the Bible was used for a similar purpose; the book being opened by hazard, or a pin stuck between the SORTIE He (Burns) certainly wrote some so so verses to the tree of liberty. Prof. Wilson. Soss (sos), v. 1. [Comp. A. Sax. sessian, to settle.] To fall at once into a chair or seat; to sit lazily. Sossing in an easy chair.' Swift. 2 [See the noun, 3] To make up or prepare messes or mixed dishes of food. Sir W. Scott. [Scotch.] Sosst (sos), v.t. To throw carelessly; to Soss (sos), n. 1. A lazy fellow.-2. A heavy fall-3. [Gael, sos, a coarse mess or mixture.] A heterogeneous mixture; a mess; a dirty puddle. [All provincial and colloq.] Sostenuto (sos-te-nü'to). [It., sustained.] In music, a term implying that the notes of the movement or passage, or note over which it is placed, is to be held out its full length in an equal and steady manner. Sot (sot), n. [Fr. sot, a fool, probably from the Celtic; comp. Ir. suthan, a blockhead, sotaire, a fop.] 1. A stupid person; a blockhead; a dull fellow; a dolt. Beyond the few lazy and reckless vagabonds with whom he sauntered away his time in the fields, or ested in the ale-house, he had not a single friend or acquaintance. Dickens. Sotadean, Sotadic (so'ta-de-an, sō-tad'ik), a. Pertaining to or resembling the lascivious and abusively scurrilous verses of the Greek poet Sotades, who lived in the third century BC. Sotadic (so-tad'ik), ". A sotadean verse or poem. Sote,ta. Sweet Chaucer. Soteriology (so-te'ri-ol"o-ji), n. [Gr. sōtërios, saving, salutary, söter, a saviour, and Logos, discourse.] 1. A discourse on health; the science of promoting and preserving health-2 The doctrine of salvation by Jesus Christ. Soth,ta. Sooth; true; certain. Chaucer. Sothern,ta. Southern. Chaucer. 139 SOUL or monotonous tone. Sir W. Scott. [Scotch.] See the noun, 4. Sough (suf, or with the Scotch pron. such), n. [A. Sax. sweg, a sound. See the verb.] 1. A murmuring sound; a rushing or whistling sound, like that of the wind; a deep sigh. 'Or listen to the whispering leaves or the solemn sough of the forest.' W. Howitt. November chill blaws loud wi' angry sough. Burns. 2. A gentle breeze; a waft; a breath. A sough of glory shall breathe on you as you come. E. B. Browning. 3. Any rumour that engages general attention. [Scotch.] I hae heard a sough,' said Annie Winnie, 'as if Lady Ashton was nae cannie body.' Sir W. Scott. 4. A cant or whining mode of speaking, especially in preaching or praying; the chant or recitative peculiar to the old Presbyterians in Scotland. [Scotch.]-To keep a calm sough, to keep silence; to be silent. [Scotch.] Hout tout, man! keep a calm sough; better to fleech a fool than fight with him. Sir W. Scott. Sought (sat), pret. & pp. of seek. I am found of them who sought me not. Soujee (sö'je), n. Same as Soojee. Souke, v.i. or t. To suck. Chaucer. Soul (sol), n. [O.E. and Sc. saul, A. Sax. sawel, sawl; a word common to the Teutonic languages: Icel. sála, Goth. saivala, G. seele, the soul. Grimm derives saivala from saivs, the sea (see SEA), the soul being regarded as the moving billowy element of man. Benfey connects it with the verb to see.] 1. The spiritual, rational, and immortal part in man which distinguishes him from brutes; the immaterial part of man; the immortal spirit which inhabits the body; that part of man which enables him to think and reason, and which renders him a subject of moral government; as, the immortality of the soul is a fundamental article of the Christian system. In the same way all the modifications of the thinking being-all the sensations, thoughts, and passions -require to be embraced in some general idea, as the ultimate ground and possibility for these modifications, as the noumenon of these phenomena. This idea is that of an Ego-of a personality-of a soul in short. G. H. Lewes. 2. The immaterial part of a beast, when considered as governed by human affections; the seat of life in an animal. To hold opinion with Pythagoras 3. The moral and emotional part of man's nature; the seat of the sentiments or feelings, in distinction from intellect. 4. The understanding; the intellectual principle.-5. The animating or essential part; the vital principle; the source of action; the essence; the chief part; as, he is the very soul of honour. The very bottom and the soul of hope.' Shak. Hence-6. The inspirer or leader of any action, or the like; as, the soul of an enterprise; an able commander is the soul of an army.-7. Spirit; courage; fire; grandeur of mind or other noble manifestation of the heart or moral nature. That he wants caution he must needs confess, But not a soul to give our arms success. Young. 8. Internal power or principle. There is some soul of goodness in things evil. Shak. 9. A spiritual being; a disembodied spirit. Every soul in heaven shall bend the knee. 10. A human being; a person; as, there was not a soul present. It is a republic; there are in it a hundred burgeois, Addison. and about a thousand souls. 11. A familiar compellation of a person, but often expressing some qualities of the mind; as, alas, poor soul; he was a good soul. A poor, mad soul.' Shak.-Cure of souls, in the Church of England, an ecclesiastical charge, in which parochial duties and the administration of sacraments are included, primarily vested in the bishop of the diocese, the clergy of each parish acting as his deputies. -Soul is much used in composition, forming compounds, many of which are selfexplanatory; as, soul-betraying, soul-calming, soul-destroying, soul-diseased, soulentrancing, soul-felt, soul-hardened, soulrefreshing, soul-reviving, soul-searching, soul-stirring, soul-subduing, soul-vexed, and the like. SYN. Spirit, life, courage, fire, ardour. SOUL Soul (sol), v.t. To imbue with a soul or mind. [Rare.] Soul (söl or sol), n. [A. Sax. sufol, sufel, suf, broth, pottage, a dainty; Icel. suf, whatever is eaten with bread; Sw. sofvel, Dan. suul; from root of sup.] Anything eaten with bread, as butter, cheese, milk, &c. It is also written Sool and Sowle, and corresponds to the Scottish word kitchen. Grose. [Provincial English.] Soult (sol), v.i. [From the above word, or from Fr. soûler, to satiate, from L. satullus, satiated.] To afford suitable sustenance. 'Bread and weldings souling well.' Warner. Soulamea (sö-la'mě-a), n. [From soulamoë, the native name, signifying king of bitterness.] A genus of plants, nat. order Simarubeæ. S. amara, the only species, a tree with simple alternate leaves, small green flowers in short axillary spikes, and heartshaped fruits, is a native of the Moluccas. It is intensely bitter, and is used medicinally in cases of cholera, pleurisy, and intermittents. Soul-bell (sōl'bel), n. The passing-bell. We call them soul-bells, for that they signify the departure of the soul, not for that they help the passage of the soul. Bp. Hall. Soul-curer (sōl'kūr-êr), n. A physician of the soul; a parson. Shak. Souldert (sol'dér), n. Solder. Souldiert (sol’jêr), n. Same as Soldier. Souled (sold), a. Furnished with a soul or mind; instinct with soul or feeling: often in composition; as, noble-souled, mean-souled. The Grecian chiefs, though largely souled.' Dryden. Soul-fearing (sõl'fer-ing), a. Terrifying the soul; appalling. Till their (cannon's) soul-fearing clamours have brawl'd down The flinty ribs of this contemptuous city. Shak. Soul-foot (sol’fụt), n. Same as Soul-scot. Soulless (söl'les), a. 1. Without a soul; with'A brainless head and soulout life; dead. less body. Sir E. Sandys. Clay not dead, but soulless.' Byron.-2. Without greatness or nobleness of mind; mean; spiritless; base. 'Slave, soulless villain.' Shak. Soul-scot, Soul-shot (sol'skot, sōl'shot), n. In old eccles. law, a kind of heriot or funeral duty paid to the church; a mortuary. See MORTUARY, 1. Soul-sick (sōl'sik), a. Diseased in mind or soul; morally diseased. Beau. & Fl. Chaucer. Soun,t n. Sound; noise. Sound (sound), a. [A. Sax. sund, gesund, sound, healthy; L.G. Dan. and Sw. sund (not in Icel.), G. gesund, D. zond, gezond; from root of L. sanus, whole, sound (whence sane, sanitary); Gr. saos, sōs, safe.] 1. Healthy; not diseased; having all the organs and faculties complete and in perfect action; not being in a morbid state; as, a sound mind; a sound body. -2. Whole; uninjured; unhurt; unmutilated; not lacerated or bruised; as, a sound limb. Thou dost breathe; Hast heavy substance; bleed'st not: art sound. Shak. 3. Free from imperfection, defect, or decay; perfect of the kind; as, sound timber; a sound ship; sound fruit. Look that my staves be sound and not too heavy. Shak. 4. Honest; honourable; virtuous; blameless. In the way of loyalty and truth Toward the king, my ever royal master, Dare mate a sounder man than Surrey can be. Shak. 5. Founded in truth; firm; strong; valid; solid; that cannot be overthrown or refuted; as, sound reasoning; a sound argument; a sound objection; sound doctrine; sound principles. About him were a press of gaping faces, 6. Right; correct; well-founded; free from error; orthodox. 2 Tim. i. 13.-7. Founded in right and law; legal; valid; not defective; that cannot be overthrown; as, a sound title to land; sound justice. Spenser.-8. Fast; profound; unbroken; undisturbed. New waked from soundest sleep, Soft on the flow'ry herb I found me laid In balmy sweat. Milton. 9. Heavy; laid on with force; lusty; forcible; severe; as, a sound beating. The men .. give sound strokes with their clubs wherewith they fight. Abp. Abbot. --Sound is sometimes used in the formation of compounds of obvious meaning; as, soundheaded, sound-hearted, sound-timbered, and the like. 140 Sound (sound), adv. Soundly; heartily. 'Pinch him sound.' Shak. So sound he slept that naught might him awake. Spenser. Sound (sound), n. [A. Sax, sund, a narrow sea, a strait, a sound; Icel. sund, a strait, a channel, also a lane or narrow passage, a defile; Dan. Sw. and G. sund, a strait or sound; from root of sunder, a sound being the water sundering or separating two pieces of land.] A narrow passage of water, as a strait between the main land and an isle, or a strait connecting two seas, or connecting a sea or lake with the ocean; as, the sound which connects the Baltic with the ocean between Denmark and Sweden. - Sound dues, the sea-toll formerly collected at Elsinore on all vessels passing the Sound between Denmark and Sweden. Sound (sound), n. [A. Sax. sund, a swimming, from swimman, to swim; Icel. sundmagi, the swimming bladder, lit. the 'swimmaw,' from sund, a swimming.] 1. The airbladder of a fish.-2. A name for the cuttlefish. Sound (sound), v.t. [Probably from Fr. sonder, to measure the depth of, to sound, which is supposed to be from L. sub, under, and unda, a wave, but may be rather from the Teutonic; comp. A. Sax. sundgyrd, a sounding yard or pole, sundline, a soundingline. See SOUND, a narrow sea.] 1. To measure the depth of; to fathom; to try or test, as the depth of water and the quality of the ground, by sinking a plummet or lead, attached to a line on which are marked the number of fathoms. A cavity in the lower end of the lead is partially filled with tallow, by means of which some portion of the earth, sand, gravel, shells, &c., of the bottom adhere to it and are drawn up. Numerous devices are in use for testing the nature of the bottom, as a pair of large forceps or scoops carried down by a weight, which are closed when they strike the ground, and so inclose some of the sand, shells, &c.; a cup at the bottom of a long leaden weight, which is closed by a leathern cover when full, &c. &c.-2. In surg. to examine by means of a sound; to introduce a sound into the bladder of, in order to ascertain whether a stone is there or not.-3. To try; to examine; to discover or endeavour to discover, as that which lies concealed in another's breast; to search out the intention, opinion, will, or desires of. To sound the abyss of science.' Tennyson. I was in jest, And by that offer meant to sound your breast. Dryden. I've sounded my Numidians man by man, Addison. To use the line and Sound (sound), v.i. lead in searching the depth of water. The shipmen . . . sounded, and found it twenty fathoms. Acts xxvii. 27, 28. Sound (sound), n. [Fr. sonde, a soundingline; a probe. See the verb.] In surg. any elongated instrument, usually metallic, by which cavities of the body are sounded or explored; specifically, an instrument which surgeons introduce into the bladder in search of stone. Sound (sound), n. [O.E. soun, sowne, from Fr. son, L. sonus, a sound; cog. Skr. svan, to sound. The d has been added, as in round (to whisper), lend, hind (a labourer).] 1. That which is heard; the effect which is produced by the vibrations of a body affecting the ear; an impression, or the effect of an impression, made on the organs of hearing by the vibrations of the air or other medium with which these organs are in contact, which vibrations are caused by the vibrations or tremulous motions of the sounding body; noise; report; as, the sound of a trumpet or drum; the sound of the human voice; a horrid sound; a charming sound; a sharp sound; a high sound; a loud sound; a low sound; an acute sound; a grave sound. No body can emit a sound unless it be put into a tremulous or vibratory motion; and hence sound, considered with respect to the sounding body, consists of a motion of vibration impressed on the parts of the body; this motion is communicated to the air which surrounds the body, and produces in it corresponding undulations, by which the ear being affected the sensation of sound is produced. The propagation of sound is not instantaneous, that is to say, the sensation is not produced at the same instant as the motion in the sonorous body which causes it; for if a gun or a piece of ordnance be discharged at a considerable SOUND-BOW distance the flash will be first seen, and after some seconds have elapsed the report will be heard. In like manner lightning always precedes thunder, and if the thunder cloud be at a considerable distance several seconds will elapse before the thunder is heard. It has been ascertained that the velocity of sound through air at 0° CentiThe grade is about 1090 feet per second. velocity is modified by such causes as the wind, and is affected by the temperature. pressure, and humidity of the air at the time. Sound is propagated or radiates from the sounding body in all directions and in straight lines, and diminishes in intensity as it recedes from the sounding body; Bo that at different distances from the body it is inversely as the squares of those distances When sound is arrested in its progress by a smooth, hard, or elastic surface, as a rock, the wall of a house, of a cavern, or of a vault, it is thrown back or reflected, and thus forms what is called an echo, the law of the reflection being that the angle of reflection is always equal to the angle of incidence. Sounds are usually classified under the two heads of noises and musical sounds. A musical sound is caused by a regular series of exactly similar disturbances or pulses succeeding each other at precisely equal intervals of time. If these conditions are not fulfilled the sound is a noise. Musical sounds differ in intensity, in pitch, and in quality: intensity depends upon the amplitude of the vibrations; pitch depends upon the number of vibrations in a stated time (sound is audible, as a general rule, when the number of vibrations are more than 16 and less than 36,000 per second); the quality of a sound depends on the configuration or internal structure of the individual sound-wavER. See ACOUSTICS.-2. Noise without signification; empty noise; noise and nothing else. It is the sense and not the sound that must be the principle. Locke. Sound (sound), v. i. [See the noun.] 1. To make a noise; to utter a voice; to make an impulse of the air that shall strike the organs of hearing with a particular effect; as, an instrument sounds well or ill; it sound s shrill; the voice sounds harsh. 'And first taught speaking trumpets how to sound.' Dryden.-2. To seem or appear when uttered; to appear on narration; as, this relation sounds rather like a fiction than a truth. How oddly will it sound that I Must ask my child forgiveness. Shak 3. To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published. From you sounded out the word of the Lord. 1 Thes. i 8. 4. To signify; to mean; to import. The cause of divorce mentioned in the law is translated some uncleanness,' but in Hebrew it rounds 'nakedness of aught, or any real nakedness." Meiten. -To sound in damages, in law, to have the essential quality of damages: said of an action brought, not for the recovery of a specific thing, as replevin, debt, &c., but for damages only, as trespass, &c. Sound (sound), v.t. 1. To cause to make a noise; to play on; as, to sound a trumpet or horn. Sound all the lofty instruments of war. Shak 2. To utter audibly; to express; to pronounce; as, to sound a note with the voice 3. To order or direct by a sound; to give a signal for by a certain sound; as, to sound a retreat. Shak To sound a parley to his heartless foe. 4. To celebrate or honour by sounds; to spread by sound or report; to publish or proclaim; as, to sound the praises or fame of a great man or a great exploit. Thou sun, of this great world both eye and soul, Acknowledge him thy greater, sound his praise. Milton Sound+ (sound), v. i. To swoon. Shak Soundable (sound'a-bl), a. Capable of being sounded. Soundage (sound'āj), n. Naut. dues for sounding. Sound-board (sound′bōrd), n. See SOUND ING-BOARD. Sound-boarding (sound'bōrd-ing), n. In carp. short boards which are disposed transversely between the joists, or fixed in a partition for holding the substance called pugging, intended to prevent sound from being transmitted from one part of a house to another. Sound-bow (sound'bō), n. The part of a bell on which the clapper strikes The |