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.
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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.
The quality or state of being sour.
Source. See Source.
The large succulent and slightly acid fruit of a small tree (Anona muricata) of the West Indies; also, the tree itself. It is closely allied to the custard apple.
The sorrel tree.
With a sudden swoop; violently.
A corrupt form of Sou.
Thoroughly drunken; inebriated.
See Suslik.
Soot.
A kind of narrow braid, usually of silk; -- also known as Russian braid.
That in which anything is packed; bagging, as for hops.
A close garnment with straight sleeves, and skirts reaching to the ankles, and buttoned in front from top to bottom; especially, the black garment of this shape worn by the clergy in France and Italy as their daily dress; a cassock.
A shoemaker; a cobbler.
Of or pertaining to a cobbler or cobblers; like a cobbler; hence, vulgar; low.
A grotto or cavern under ground.
To turn or move toward the south; to veer toward the south.
A follower of Joanna Southcott (1750-1814), an Englishwoman who, professing to have received a miraculous calling, preached and prophesied, and committed many impious absurdities.
A Southdown sheep.
Of or pertaining to the southeast; proceeding toward, or coming from, the southeast; as, a southeast course; a southeast wind.
Toward the southeast.
Of or pertaining to the southeast; southeasterly.
Toward the southeast.
A strong wind, gale, or storm from the south.
The quality or state of being southerly; direction toward the south.
Southern.
A Southerner.
An inhabitant or native of the south, esp. of the Southern States of North America; opposed to Northerner.
Southerliness.
Somewhat southern. In a southerly manner or course; southward.
Farthest south.
A shrubby species of wormwood (Artemisia Abrotanum) having aromatic foliage. It is sometimes used in making beer.
Tendency or progress southward; as, the southing of the sun.
Southerly.
Farthest toward the south; southernmost.
A tendency in the end of a magnetic needle to point toward the south pole.
A pitcher who pitches with the left hand.
Southern.
An inhabitant of the more southern part of a country; formerly, a name given in Scotland to any Englishman.
See Soothsay.
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