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.

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.

Formerly, in Ireland, a kind of servile tenure which subjected the tenant to maintain his chieftain gratuitously whenever he wished to indulge in a revel.

A young buck in the third year. See the Note under Buck.

In a sore manner; grievously; painfully; as, to be sorely afflicted.

A heap of carpels belonging to one flower.

The quality or state of being sore; tenderness; painfull; as, the soreness of a wound; the soreness of an affliction.

A genus of small Insectivora, including the common shrews.

The three-bearded rockling, or whistlefish.

A genus of grasses, properly limited to two species, Sorghum Halepense, the Arabian millet, or Johnson grass (see Johnson grass), and Sorghum vulgare, the Indian millet (see Indian millet, under Indian). A variety of Sorghum vulgare, grown for its saccharine juice; the Chinese sugar cane.

Indian millet and its varieties. See Sorghum.

pl. of Sorus.

Of or pertaining to the Shrew family (Soricidae); like a shrew in form or habits; as, the soricine bat (Glossophaga soricina).

An abridged form of stating of syllogisms in a series of propositions so arranged that the predicate of each one that precedes forms the subject of each one that follows, and the conclusion unites the subject of the first proposition with the predicate of the last proposition

Of or pertaining to a sorites; resembling a sorites.

To obtrude one's self on another for bed and board.

One who obtrudes himself on another for bed and board.

Relating to a sister; sisterly.

The murder of one's sister; also, one who murders or kills one's own sister.

To associate, or hold fellowship, as sisters; to have sisterly feelings; -- analogous to fraternize.

A fleshy fruit formed by the consolidation of many flowers with their receptacles, ovaries, etc., as the breadfruit, mulberry, and pineapple.

The blades of green or barley.

Same as Sorance.

One of various plants having a sour juice; especially, a plant of the genus Rumex, as Rumex Acetosa, Rumex Acetosella, etc.

In a sorry manner; poorly.

The quality or state of being sorry.

To feel pain of mind in consequence of evil experienced, feared, or done; to grieve; to be sad; to be sorry.

Accompanied with sorrow; sorrowful.

Full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; dejected; distressed.

Free from sorrow.

Grieved for the loss of some good; pained for some evil; feeling regret; -- now generally used to express light grief or affliction, but formerly often used to express deeper feeling.

A lot; also, a kind of divination by means of lots.

To join or associate with others, esp. with others of the same kind or species; to agree.

Capable of being sorted.

Suitable.

Pertaining to a sort.

Suitableness; agreement.

One who, or that which, sorts.

pl. of Sors.

The sudden issuing of a body of troops, usually small, from a besieged place to attack or harass the besiegers; a sally.

The act or practice of drawing lots; divination by drawing lots.

Pertaining to sortilege.

Sortilege.

The air sung by any of the principal characters in an opera on entering.

Selection or appointment by lot.

Assortiment.

One of the fruit dots, or small clusters of sporangia, on the back of the fronds of ferns.

Sorrow.

Sorrowful.

Green vitriol, or some earth imregnated with it.

Anything dirty or muddy; a dirty puddle.

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.