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Somniloquism

The act or habit of talking in one's sleep; somniloquy.

Somniloquy

A talking in sleep; the talking of one in a state of somnipathy.

Somnipathy

Sleep from sympathy, or produced by mesmerism or the like.

somnolism

The somnolent state induced by animal magnetism (hypnotism); the hypnotic state.

Somnour

A summoner; an apparitor; a sompnour.

Son

A male child; the male issue, or offspring, of a parent, father or mother.

Son-in-law

The husband of one's daughter; a man in his relationship to his wife's parents.

Sonance

A sound; a tune; as, to sound the tucket sonance.

Sonant

Of or pertaining to sound; sounding.

Sonata

An extended composition for one or two instruments, consisting usually of three or four movements; as, Beethoven's sonatas for the piano, for the violin and piano, etc.

Sonde Sond

That which is sent; a message or messenger; hence, also, a visitation of providence; an affliction or trial.

Sondeli

The musk shrew. See under Musk.

Sonderclass

A special class of small yachts developed in Germany under the patronage of Emperor William and Prince Henry of Prussia, and so called because these yachts do not conform to the restrictions for the regular classes established by the rules of the International Yacht Racing Union. In yachts of the sonderclass, as prescribed for the season of 1911, the aggregate of the length on water line, extreme beam, and extreme draft must be not more than 32 feet; the weight, not less than 4,035 pounds (without crew); the sail area, not more than 550 square yards; and the cost of construction (for American boats) not more than $2400. The crew must be amateurs and citizens of the country in which the yacht was built.

Song

That which is sung or uttered with musical modulations of the voice, whether of a human being or of a bird, insect, etc.

Songcraft

The art of making songs or verses; metrical composition; versification.

Songful

Disposed to sing; full of song.

Songless

Destitute of the power of song; without song; as, songless birds; songless woods.

Songster

One who sings; one skilled in singing; -- not often applied to human beings.

Songstress

A woman who sings; also, a female singing bird.

Sonifer

A kind of ear trumpet for the deaf, or the partially deaf.

Soniferous

Sounding; producing sound; conveying sound.

Sonification

The act of producing sound, as the stridulation of insects.

Sonnish

Like the sun; sunny; golden.

Sonometer

An instrument for exhibiting the transverse vibrations of cords, and ascertaining the relations between musical notes. It consists of a cord stretched by weight along a box, and divided into different lengths at pleasure by a bridge, the place of which is determined by a scale on the face of the box.

Sonoran

Pertaining to or designating the arid division of the Austral zone, including the warmer parts of the western United States and central Mexico. It is divided into the Upper Sonoran, which lies next to the Transition zone, and the Lower Sonoran, next to the Tropical.

Sonorific

Producing sound; as, the sonorific quality of a body.

Sonority

The quality or state of being sonorous; sonorousness.

Sonorous

Giving sound when struck; resonant; as, sonorous metals.

Sonship

The state of being a son, or of bearing the relation of a son; filiation.

Sontag

A knitted worsted jacket, worn over the waist of a woman's dress.

Sonties

Probably from /saintes/ saints, or from sanctities; -- used as an oath.

Sooner

In the western United States, one who settles on government land before it is legally open to settlement in order to gain the prior claim that the law gives to the first settler when the land is opened to settlement; hence, any one who does a thing prematurely or anticipates another in acting in order to gain an unfair advantage.

Soorma

A preparation of antimony with which Mohammedan men anoint their eyelids.

Soosoo

A kind of dolphin (Platanista Gangeticus) native of the river Ganges; the Gangetic dolphin. It has a long, slender, somewhat spatulate beak.

Soot

To cover or dress with soot; to smut with, or as with, soot; as, to soot land.

Sooterkin

A kind of false birth, fabled to be produced by Dutch women from sitting over their stoves; also, an abortion, in a figurative sense; an abortive scheme.

Soother

One who, or that which, soothes.

Soothly

In truth; truly; really; verily.

Soothsay

A true saying; a proverb; a prophecy.

Soothsayer

One who foretells events by the art of soothsaying; a prognosticator.

Sootiness

The quality or state of being sooty; fuliginousness.

Sooty

To black or foul with soot.

Sop

To steep or dip in any liquid.

Soph

A contraction of Sophomore.

Sophism

The doctrine or mode of reasoning practiced by a sophist; hence, any fallacy designed to deceive.

Sophist

One of a class of men who taught eloquence, philosophy, and politics in ancient Greece; especially, one of those who, by their fallacious but plausible reasoning, puzzled inquirers after truth, weakened the faith of the people, and drew upon themselves general hatred and contempt.

Sophister

To maintain by sophistry, or by a fallacious argument.

Sophistical Sophistic

Of or pertaining to a sophist; embodying sophistry; fallaciously subtile; not sound.

Sophisticate

To render worthless by admixture; to adulterate; to damage; to pervert; as, to sophisticate wine.

Sophistication

The act of sophisticating; adulteration; as, the sophistication of drugs.

Sophistry

The art or process of reasoning; logic.

Sophomore

One belonging to the second of the four classes in an American college, or one next above a freshman.

Sophomorical Sophomoric

Of or pertaining to a sophomore; resembling a sophomore; hence, pretentious; inflated in style or manner; as, sophomoric affectation.

Sophora

A genus of leguminous plants. A tree (Sophora Japonica) of Eastern Asia, resembling the common locust; occasionally planted in the United States.

Sopite

To lay asleep; to put to sleep; to quiet.

Sopition

The act of putting to sleep, or the state of being put to sleep; sleep.

Sopor

Profound sleep from which a person can be roused only with difficulty.

Soporate

To lay or put to sleep; to stupefy.

Soporific

A medicine, drug, plant, or other agent that has the quality of inducing sleep; a narcotic.

Soppy

Soaked or saturated with liquid or moisture; very wet or sloppy.

Sopra

Above; before; over; upon.

Soprano

The treble; the highest vocal register; the highest kind of female or boy's voice; the upper part in harmony for mixed voices. A singer, commonly a woman, with a treble voice.

Sora

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.

Sorb

The wild service tree (Pyrus torminalis) of Europe; also, the rowan tree. The fruit of these trees.

Sorbefacient

Producing absorption. A medicine or substance which produces absorption.

Sorbet

A kind of beverage; sherbet.

Sorbic

Pertaining to, or obtained from, the rowan tree, or sorb; specifically, designating an acid, C/H/CO/H, of the acetylene series, found in the unripe berries of this tree, and extracted as a white crystalline substance.

Sorbin

An unfermentable sugar, isomeric with glucose, found in the ripe berries of the rowan tree, or sorb, and extracted as a sweet white crystalline substance; -- called also mountain-ash sugar.

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