A mineral of a white to blue or gray color, occuring commonly in dodecahedrons, also massive. It is a silicate of alumina and soda with some chlorine.

A fellowship or fraternity; a brotherhood.

A greenish or reddish crystalline substance, NaNH2, obtained by passing ammonia over heated sodium.

To soak; to make heavy with water.

Heavy; dull.

Consisting of sod; covered with sod; turfy.

See Solder.

Variant of Soldier.

Of or pertaining to sodium; containing sodium.

A common metallic element of the alkali group, in nature always occuring combined, as in common salt, in albite, etc. It is isolated as a soft, waxy, white, unstable metal, so highly reactive that it combines violently with water, and to be preserved must be kept under petroleum or some similar liquid. Sodium is used combined in many salts, in the free state as a reducer, and as a means of obtaining other metals (as magnesium and aluminium) is an important commercial product. Symbol Na (Natrium). Atomic weight 22.990. Specific gravity 0.97.

An inhabitant of Sodom.

Pertaining to, or of the nature of, sodomy.

Carnal copulation in a manner against nature; buggery.

A large wooden vessel for holding water; a cowl.

A long seat, usually with a cushioned bottom, back, and ends; -- much used as a comfortable piece of furniture.

The under side of the subordinate parts and members of buildings, such as staircases, entablatures, archways, cornices, or the like. See Illust. of Lintel.

Same as Sufi.

Same as Sufism.

Be quiet; hold; stop; not so fast.

Having the fin rays cartilaginous or flexible; without spines; -- said of certain fishes.

Weak in intellect.

Having softness or tenderness of heart; susceptible of pity or other kindly affection; gentle; meek.

Having a soft or fragile shell.

Speaking softly; having a mild or gentle voice; hence, mild; affable.

Any one attached to a Mohammedan mosque, esp. a student of the higher branches of theology in a mosque school.

To become soft or softened, or less rude, harsh, severe, or obdurate.

One who, or that which, softens.

a. n. from Soften, v.

Somewhat soft.

A soft, effeminate person; a voluptuary.

In a soft manner.

See Softener.

The quality or state of being soft; -- opposed to hardness, and used in the various specific senses of the adjective.

Var. of Soldier.

The quality or state of being soggy; soddenness; wetness.

Filled with water; soft with moisture; sodden; soaked; wet; as, soggy land or timber.

Ho; -- a word used in calling from a distant place; a sportsman's halloo.

Self-named; self-styled; pretended; would-be.

That which soils or pollutes; a soiled place; spot; stain.

Stain; foulness.

Destitute of soil or mold.

Stain; pollution.

Dirty; soiled.

An evening party; -- distinguished from levee, and matin/e.

An Asiatic leguminous herb (Glycine max, formerly Glycine Soja) the seeds of which (called soy beans) are used in preparing the sauce called soy. Called also soya.

Var. of Soldier.

A temporary residence, as that of a traveler in a foreign land.

One who sojourns.

The act or state of one who sojourns.

Temporary residence, as that of a stranger or a traveler.

See Soc.

See Socman.

See Socmanry.

A toll. See Soc, n., 2.

An African anthropoid ape, supposed to be a variety of the chimpanzee.

A sou.

The gamut, or musical scale. See Tonic sol-fa, under Tonic, n.

A leguminous plant (Aeschynomene aspera) growing in moist places in Southern India and the East Indies. Its pithlike stem is used for making hats, swimming-jackets, etc.

Alone; -- chiefly used in stage directions, and the like.

To take comfort; to be cheered.

Affording solace; as, a solacious voice.

Of or pertaining to plants of the natural order Solanaceae, of which the nightshade (Solanum) is the type. The order includes also the tobacco, ground cherry, tomato, eggplant, red pepper, and many more.

A solan goose.

See Sallenders.

Solanine.

An alkaloid produced by the action of hydrochloric acid on solanidine, as a tasteless yellow crystalline substance.

An alkaloid produced by the decomposition of solanine, as a white crystalline substance having a harsh bitter taste.

A poisonous alkaloid glucoside extracted from the berries of common nightshade (Solanum nigrum), and of bittersweet, and from potato sprouts, as a white crystalline substance having an acrid, burning taste; -- called also solonia, and solanina.

Resembling a potato; -- said of a kind of cancer.

A genus of plants comprehending the potato (Solanum tuberosum), the eggplant (Solanum melongena, and several hundred other species; nightshade.

Of or pertaining to the sun; proceeding from the sun; as, the solar system; solar light; solar rays; solar influence. See Solar system, below.

An apartment freely exposed to the sun; anciently, an apartment or inclosure on the roof of a house; in modern times, an apartment in a hospital, used as a resort for convalescents.

Injury of a photographic picture caused by exposing it for too long a time to the sun's light in the camera; burning; excessive insolation.

To become injured by undue or too long exposure to the sun's rays in the camera; -- an older term now replaced by overexpose.

Solar.

Solace.

Anything which alleviates or compensates for suffering or loss; a compensation; esp., an additional allowance, as for injured feelings.

Solary; military pay.

A sultan.

A plant of the genus Soldanella, low Alpine herbs of the Primrose family.

The country ruled by a soldan, or sultan; a sultanate{2}.

To unite (metallic surfaces or edges) by the intervention of a more fusible metal or metallic alloy applied when melted; to join by means of metallic cement.

One who solders.

a. n. from Solder, v. t.

To serve as a soldier.

A female soldier.

The act of serving as a soldier; the state of being a soldier; the occupation of a soldier.

Like a soldier; soldierly.

Like or becoming a real soldier; brave; martial; heroic; honorable; soldierlike.

Military qualities or state; martial skill; behavior becoming a soldier.

A showy leguminous plant (Calliandra purpurea) of the West Indies. The flowers have long tassels of purple stamens.

A body of soldiers; soldiers, collectivelly; the military.

A small Italian coin worth a sou or a cent; the twentieth part of a lira.

Being or acting without another; single; individual; only.

A fluid mixture of a colloid and a liquid; a liquid colloidal solution or suspension.

An impropriety or incongruity of language in the combination of words or parts of a sentence; esp., deviation from the idiom of a language or from the rules of syntax.

One who commits a solecism.

Solecistical.

Pertaining to, or involving, a solecism; incorrect.

In a solecistic manner.

To commit a solecism.

Singly; alone; only; without another; as, to rest a cause solely one argument; to rely solelyn one's own strength.

Marked with religious rites and pomps; enjoined by, or connected with, religion; sacred.

Solemnness.

A rite or ceremony performed with religious reverence; religious or ritual ceremony; as, the solemnity of a funeral, a sacrament.

To solemnize; as, to solemnizate matrimony.

The act of solemnizing; celebration; as, the solemnization of a marriage.

Solemnization.

One who solemnizes.

In a solemn manner; with gravity; seriously; formally.

The state or quality of being solemn; solemnity; impressiveness; gravity; as, the solemnness of public worship.

Solemn; grand; stately; splendid; magnificent.

A cradle, as for a broken limb. See Cradle, 6.

Any species of marine bivalve shells belonging to the family Solenidae.

Of or pertaining to the solens or family Solenidae.

The state of being sole, or alone; singleness.

A small European sole (Solea minuta).

Same as Scaphopoda.

Either one of two species of singular West Indian insectivores, allied to the tenrec. One species (Solendon paradoxus), native of St. Domingo, is called also agouta; the other (Solendon Cubanus), found in Cuba, is called almique.

An order of lowly organized Mollusca belonging to the Isopleura. A narrow groove takes the place of the foot of other gastropods.