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An American Dictionary of the English Language

by Noah Webster

Revised and enlarged (Goodrich & Porter)

Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865

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  1. Sŏp'o-rĭf'er-oŭs-ly, adv.p. 1260In a soporiferous manner; so as to produce sleep.
  2. Sŏp/o-rĭf'er-oŭs-ness, n.p. 1260The quality of being soporiferous, or of causing sleep.
  3. Sŏp'/o-rĭf'ic, a.p. 1260Causing sleep; tending to cause sleep; soporiferous; as, the soporific virtues of opium.
  4. Sŏp'o-rif'ic, n.p. 1260A medicine, drug, plant, or other thing that has the quality of inducing sleep.
  5. Sŏp'ō-rōse or Sŏp'o-rōus, a.p. 1260Causing sleep; sleepy.
  6. Sŏp'per, n.p. 1260One who sops or dips in liquor something to be eaten.
  7. Sŏp'py, a.p. 1260Soaked or saturated with liquid or moisture. I was quite tired, and very glad when we saw Yarmouth. It looked rather spongy and soppy, I thought. Dickens.
  8. Sō'prā, n.p. 1260(Mus.) The upper or higher part. Moore.
  9. So-prä'nist, n.p. 1260(Mus.) A treble singer.
  10. So-prā'no, n.p. 1260(Mus.) The treble; the highest female voice.
  11. Sŏr'ance, n.p. 1260Soreness. [Obs. and rare.] Seldom or never complain they of any sorance in other parts of the body. Holland.
  12. Sôrb, n.p. 1260The European mountain-ash, or service-tree, and its fruit. See SERVICE-TREE. Sorb-apple, the fruit of the sorb, or service-tree.
  13. Sôr'bate, n.p. 1260(Chem.) A compound of malic or sorbic acid with a base. [Obs.] Ure.
  14. Sôr'be-fā'cient, n.p. 1260(Med.) A medicine which produces absorption.
  15. Sôr'be-fā'cient, a.p. 1260(Med.) Producing absorption.
  16. Sôrb'ent, n.p. 1260An absorbent. [Rare.] See ABSORBENT.
  17. Sôr'bet, n.p. 1260A kind of beverage; sherbet. Smollett.
  18. Sŏr'bĭe, a.p. 1260(Chem.) Pertaining to the sorbus, or service-tree. Sorbie acid. The same as MALIC ACID.
  19. Sôr'bile, a.p. 1260Fit to be drank or sipped. [Obs.]
  20. Sor-bĭ'tion, n.p. 1260The act of drinking or sipping. [Obs.]
  21. Sor-bŏn'ic-al, a.p. 1260Belonging to a Sorbonist. Bale.
  22. Sôr'bon-ĭst, n.p. 1260A doctor of the Sorbonne, or theological college, in the University of Paris, founded by Robert de Sorbonne, A.D.1250. ☞ Sorbonne is properly the name of the building, from which the theological…
  23. Sôrb'-tree, n.p. 1260The service-tree, or sorb.
  24. Sôr'cer-er, n.p. 1260A conjurer; an enchanter; a magician. The Egyptian sorcerers contended with Moses. Watts.
  25. Sôr'çer-ess, n.p. 1260A female sorcerer.
  26. Sôr'çer-oŭs, a.p. 1260Pertaining to sorcery. Chapman.
  27. Sôr'çer-y, n.p. 1260Divination by the assistance, or supposed assistance, of evil spirits, or the power of commanding evil spirits; magic; enchantment; witchcraft. Adder's wisdom I have learned, To fence my ears against…
  28. Sōrd, n.p. 1260The same as SWARD. [Rare.]
  29. Sôrd'a-wal-ite, n.p. 1260(Min.) A grayish or bluish-black, brittle mineral, consisting chiefly of silica, alumina, protoxide of iron, magnesia, and a small proportion of phosphoric acid and water;— so called from Sordawaala…
  30. Sôr'dē,, n.p. 1260Foul matter; excretions; dregs; filthy, useless, or rejected matter of any kind. Coxe.
  31. Sôr'det, n.p. 1260(Mus.) A sordine.
  32. Sôr'did, a.p. 1260Filthy; foul; dirty; gross. [Obs.] There Charon stands, A sordid god. Dryden. 2. Vile; base; mean; as, vulgar, sordid mortals. “To scorn the sordid world.” Shak. 3. Meanly avaricious; covetous…
  33. Sor-did'i-ty, n.p. 1260Sordidness. [Obs.]
  34. Sôr'did-ly, adv.p. 1260In a sordid manner; meanly; basely; covetously.
  35. Sôr'did-ness, n.p. 1260The state of being sordid; filthiness; baseness; meanness; niggardliness.
  36. Sôr'dine, n.p. 1260(Mus.) A small instrument or damper in the mouth of a trumpet, or on the bridge of a violin, violoncello, or similar instrument, to make the sound fainter.
  37. Sōre, n.p. 1260A place in an animal body where the skin and flesh are ruptured or bruised, so as to be tender or painful. The glutton's dogs licked his sores. Shak. 2. An ulcer, a boil. 3. Hence, grief; affliction…
  38. Sōre, a.p. 1260Tender and susceptible of pain from pressure; inflamed; painful. 2. Tender, as the mind; easily pained, grieved, or vexed; very susceptible of irritation. Malice and hatred are very fretting, and apt…
  39. Sōre, adv.p. 1260In a sore manner; with pain; grievously. Thy hand presseth me sore. Com. Prayer. 2. Greatly; violently; deeply. Sore sighed the knight, who this long sermon heard. Dryden.
  40. Sōre, v. t.p. 1260To make sore; to wound. [Obs.] “As it had not been sored.” Spenser.
  41. Sōre, n.p. 1260A hawk of the first year. Spenser. 2. A buck of the fourth year. Shak.
  42. Sôr'e-dif'er-oûs, a.p. 1260(Bot.) Bearing soredia.
  43. So-rē'di-ūm, n.p. 1260(Bot.) A patch of granular bodies on
  44. Sōre'hon, n.p. 1260Formerly, in Ireland, a kind of servile tenure which subjected the tenant to maintain his chieftain gratuitously, whenever he wished to indulge himself in a debauch;—called, in Scotland, sorn.…
  45. Sŏr'el, n.p. 1260A buck of the third year. [Rare.] Shak. 2. A yellowish or reddish-brown color; sorrel.
  46. Sôre'ly, adv.p. 1260In a sore manner; grievously; greatly; as, to be sorely pained or afflicted.
  47. Sôre'ness, n.p. 1260The state of being sore; tenderness; painfulness; as, the soreness of a boil, an abscess, or wound.
  48. Sôr'ghum, n.p. 1260(Bot.) A genus of tall grasses or canes, of which some species, especially the Sorghum (or Holcus) saccharatum, are largely used in the East as fodder, and have a sweetish juice, which has been used…
  49. Sōr'gō, n.p. 1261(Bot.) A plant of the genus Sorghum.
  50. Sōr'ī, n. pl.p. 1261See SORUS.
  51. Sō-rī'tēs, n.p. 1261(Logic.) An abridged form of stating a series 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…
  52. Sōrn, n.p. 1261See SORENON.
  53. Sōrn, v. i.p. 1261To obtrude one's self on another for bed and board. [Scot.] W. Scott.
  54. Sōrn’er, n.p. 1261One who obtrudes himself on another for bed and board. [Scot.] De Quincey.
  55. Sō-rŏr'i-cīde, n.p. 1261The murder, or murderer, of a sister.
  56. Sōr'rage, n.p. 1261The blades of green wheat or barley. [Obs.] Bailey.
  57. Sŏr'rance, n.p. 1261The same as SORANCE. [Obs.]
  58. Sŏr'rel, a.p. 1261Of a yellowish or reddish brown color; as, a sorrel horse.
  59. Sōr'rel, n.p. 1261A yellowish or reddish brown color.
  60. Sŏr'rel, n.p. 1261(Bot.) One of various plants having a sour juice;—especially applied to plants of the genus Rumex, as Rumex acetosa, Rumex acetosella, &c. Mountain sorrel, a plant of the genus Oxyria.—Red sorrel, a…