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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.

Sorbite

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.

Sorbonical

Belonging to the Sorbonne or to a Sorbonist.

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.

Sorcerer

A conjurer; an enchanter; a magician.

Sorcery

Divination by the assistance, or supposed assistance, of evil spirits, or the power of commanding evil spirits; magic; necromancy; witchcraft; enchantment.

Sordes

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.

Sore

In a sore manner; with pain; grievously.

Soredium

A patch of granular bodies on the surface of the thallus of lichens.

Sorehead

One who is disgruntled by a failure in politics, or the like.

Sorehon

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.

Sorel

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

Sorely

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

Sorema

A heap of carpels belonging to one flower.

Soreness

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

Sorex

A genus of small Insectivora, including the common shrews.

Sorghe

The three-bearded rockling, or whistlefish.

Sorghum

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.

Sorgo

Indian millet and its varieties. See Sorghum.

Soricine

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

Sorites

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

Soritical

Of or pertaining to a sorites; resembling a sorites.

Sorn

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

Sorner

One who obtrudes himself on another for bed and board.

Sororal

Relating to a sister; sisterly.

Sororicide

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

Sororize

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

Sorosis

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

Sorrage

The blades of green or barley.

Sorrel

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

Sorriness

The quality or state of being sorry.

Sorrow

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

Sorrowed

Accompanied with sorrow; sorrowful.

Sorrowful

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

Sorry

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.

Sors

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

Sort

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

Sorter

One who, or that which, sorts.

Sortie

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

Sortilege

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

Sortita

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

Sorus

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

Sory

Green vitriol, or some earth imregnated with it.

Soss

Anything dirty or muddy; a dirty puddle.

Sostenuto

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.

Sot

To tipple to stupidity.

Sotadic

Pertaining to, or resembling, the lascivious compositions of the Greek poet Sotades. A Sotadic verse or poem.

soteriology

A discourse on health, or the science of promoting and preserving health.

Sothic Sothiac

Of or pertaining to Sothis, the Egyptian name for the Dog Star; taking its name from the Dog Star; canicular.

Sotted

a. p. p. of Sot. Befooled; deluded; besotted.

Sottish

Like a sot; doltish; very foolish; drunken.

Sou

An old French copper coin, equivalent in value to, and now displaced by, the five-centime piece (/ of a franc), which is popularly called a sou.

Soubise

A sauce made of white onions and melted butter mixed with velout/ sauce.

Soubrette

A female servant or attendant; specifically, as a term of the theater, a lady's maid, in comedies, who acts the part of an intrigante; a meddlesome, mischievous female servant or young woman.

Souchong

A kind of black tea of a fine quality.

Souffle

A side dish served hot from the oven at dinner, made of eggs, milk, and flour or other farinaceous substance, beaten till very light, and flavored with fruits, liquors, or essence.

Souffle Soufflee

Decorated with very small drops or sprinkles of color, as if blown from a bellows.

Sough

To whistle or sigh, as the wind.

Soul

To indue with a soul; to furnish with a soul or mind.

soul

By or for African-Americans, or characteristic of their culture; as, soul music; soul newspapers; soul food.

soul kiss

A kiss in which both parties have their mouths open and pressed together, and the tongue of one or both is maneuvered within the mouth of the other.

Souled

Furnished with a soul; possessing soul and feeling; -- used chiefly in composition; as, great-souled Hector.

Soulili

A long-tailed, crested Javan monkey (Semnopithecus mitratus). The head, the crest, and the upper surface of the tail, are black.

Soulless

Being without a soul, or without greatness or nobleness of mind; mean; spiritless.

Sound

To cause to make a noise; to play on; as, to sound a trumpet or a horn; to sound an alarm.

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