Filthy; foul; dirty.
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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.
To tipple to stupidity.
Sotadic.
Pertaining to, or resembling, the lascivious compositions of the Greek poet Sotades. A Sotadic verse or poem.
Sweet.
A discourse on health, or the science of promoting and preserving health.
Sooth.
Of or pertaining to Sothis, the Egyptian name for the Dog Star; taking its name from the Dog Star; canicular.
Subtile.
Subtlety.
a. p. p. of Sot. Befooled; deluded; besotted.
Folly.
Like a sot; doltish; very foolish; drunken.
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.
See Subah.
See Subahdar.
A sauce made of white onions and melted butter mixed with velout/ sauce.
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.
See Sobriquet.
See Souse.
A kind of black tea of a fine quality.
A sultan.
United; consolidated; made firm; strengthened.
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.
Decorated with very small drops or sprinkles of color, as if blown from a bellows.
To whistle or sigh, as the wind.
imp. p. p. of Seek.
To suck.
To indue with a soul; to furnish with a soul or mind.
By or for African-Americans, or characteristic of their culture; as, soul music; soul newspapers; soul food.
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.
Furnished with a soul; possessing soul and feeling; -- used chiefly in composition; as, great-souled Hector.
A long-tailed, crested Javan monkey (Semnopithecus mitratus). The head, the crest, and the upper surface of the tail, are black.
Being without a soul, or without greatness or nobleness of mind; mean; spiritless.
In a soulless manner.
Sound.
To cause to make a noise; to play on; as, to sound a trumpet or a horn; to sound an alarm.
A sounding-board.
Capable of being sounded.
Dues for soundings.
A herd of wild hogs.
The act of one who, or that which, sounds (in any of the senses of the several verbs).
A thin board which propagates the sound in a piano, in a violin, and in some other musical instruments.
Having no sound; noiseless; silent.
In a sound manner.
The quality or state of being sound; as, the soundness of timber, of fruit, of the teeth, etc.; the soundness of reasoning or argument; soundness of faith.
To sound.
Soused. See Souse.
To sweep. See Sweep, and Swoop.
A suspicion; a suggestion; hence, a very small portion; a taste; as, coffee with a soup/on of brandy; a soup/on of coquetry.
Soup made chiefly from vegetables or fish with a little butter and a few condiments.
That part of a flail which strikes the grain.
Resembling soup; souplike.
To become sour; to turn from sweet to sour; as, milk soon sours in hot weather; a kind temper sometimes sours in adversity.
The act of rising; a rise; an ascent.
See Sauerkraut.
To have origin or source; to rise; to spring.
Any sour apple.
Somewhat sour; moderately acid; as, sourish fruit; a sourish taste.
Same as Sauerkraut.
In a sour manner; with sourness.
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