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.
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That which is sung or uttered with musical modulations of the voice, whether of a human being or of a bird, insect, etc.
The art of making songs or verses; metrical composition; versification.
Disposed to sing; full of song.
Consisting of songs.
Destitute of the power of song; without song; as, songless birds; songless woods.
One who sings; one skilled in singing; -- not often applied to human beings.
A woman who sings; also, a female singing bird.
A kind of ear trumpet for the deaf, or the partially deaf.
Sounding; producing sound; conveying sound.
The act of producing sound, as the stridulation of insects.
Being without a son.
To compose sonnets.
To compose sonnets.
A composer of sonnets.
A sonneter, or sonneteer.
To compose sonnets.
Like the sun; sunny; golden.
See Sunnite.
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.
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.
Producing sound; as, the sonorific quality of a body.
The quality or state of being sonorous; sonorousness.
Giving sound when struck; resonant; as, sonorous metals.
The state of being a son, or of bearing the relation of a son; filiation.
See Soncy.
Lucky; fortunate; thriving; plump.
A knitted worsted jacket, worn over the waist of a woman's dress.
Probably from /saintes/ saints, or from sanctities; -- used as an oath.
Same as Souchong.
Same as Suji.
Speedy; quick.
See Sunnite.
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.
Soon.
Skin of bacon.
A preparation of antimony with which Mohammedan men anoint their eyelids.
See Souchong.
A kind of dolphin (Platanista Gangeticus) native of the river Ganges; the Gangetic dolphin. It has a long, slender, somewhat spatulate beak.
To cover or dress with soot; to smut with, or as with, soot; as, to soot land.
Sweet.
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.
Truth; reality.
To assent to as true.
One who, or that which, soothes.
Soothly; really; in fact.
a. n. from Soothe, v.
In a soothing manner.
In truth; truly; really; verily.
Truth; reality.
A true saying; a proverb; a prophecy.
One who foretells events by the art of soothsaying; a prognosticator.
A true saying; truth.
The quality or state of being sooty; fuliginousness.
Sooty.
To black or foul with soot.
To steep or dip in any liquid.
See Soap.
A contraction of Sophomore.
See Sufi.
Teaching wisdom.
Sophism.
The doctrine or mode of reasoning practiced by a sophist; hence, any fallacy designed to deceive.
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.
To maintain by sophistry, or by a fallacious argument.
Of or pertaining to a sophist; embodying sophistry; fallaciously subtile; not sound.
To render worthless by admixture; to adulterate; to damage; to pervert; as, to sophisticate wine.
Adulterated; not pure; not genuine.
The act of sophisticating; adulteration; as, the sophistication of drugs.
One who sophisticates.
The art or process of reasoning; logic.
One belonging to the second of the four classes in an American college, or one next above a freshman.
Of or pertaining to a sophomore; resembling a sophomore; hence, pretentious; inflated in style or manner; as, sophomoric affectation.
A genus of leguminous plants. A tree (Sophora Japonica) of Eastern Asia, resembling the common locust; occasionally planted in the United States.
See Softa.
To lay asleep; to put to sleep; to quiet.
The act of putting to sleep, or the state of being put to sleep; sleep.
Profound sleep from which a person can be roused only with difficulty.
To lay or put to sleep; to stupefy.
Causing sleep; somniferous; soporific.
A medicine, drug, plant, or other agent that has the quality of inducing sleep; a narcotic.
Causing sleep; sleepy.
One who sops.
Soaked or saturated with liquid or moisture; very wet or sloppy.
Above; before; over; upon.
A treble singer.
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.
See Sops of wine, under Sop.
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.
Soreness.
The wild service tree (Pyrus torminalis) of Europe; also, the rowan tree. The fruit of these trees.
A salt of sorbic acid.
Producing absorption. A medicine or substance which produces absorption.
An absorbent.
A kind of beverage; sherbet.
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.
Fit to be drunk or sipped.
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.
A sugarlike substance, isomeric with mannite and dulcite, found with sorbin in the ripe berries of the sorb, and extracted as a sirup or a white crystalline substance.
The act of drinking or sipping.
Belonging to the Sorbonne or to a Sorbonist.
A doctor of the Sorbonne, or theological college, in the University of Paris, founded by Robert de Sorbon, a. d. 1252. It was suppressed in the Revolution of 1789.
A conjurer; an enchanter; a magician.
A female sorcerer.
Act or practice of using sorcery.
Of or pertaining to sorcery.
Divination by the assistance, or supposed assistance, of evil spirits, or the power of commanding evil spirits; magic; necromancy; witchcraft; enchantment.
See Sward.
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.
A sordine.
Filthy; foul; dirty.
In a sordid manner.
The quality or state of being sordid.
See Damper, and 5th Mute.
In a sore manner; with pain; grievously.
pl. of Soredium.
Sorediiferous.
Bearing soredia; sorediate.
A patch of granular bodies on the surface of the thallus of lichens.
Same as Sora.
One who is disgruntled by a failure in politics, or the like.
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