SOOTHER
SOOTH'ER, noun A flatterer; he or that which softens or assuages.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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SOOTHING
SOOTH'ING, participle present tense Flattering; softening; assuaging.
SOOTHINGLY
SOOTH'INGLY, adverb With flattery or soft words.
SOOTHLY
SOOTH'LY, adverb In truth; really.
SOOTHSAY
SOOTH'SAY, verb intransitive [sooth and say.] To foretell; to predict. Acts 16:1. [Little used.]
SOOTHSAYER
SOOTH'SAYER, noun A foreteller; a prognosticator; one who undertakes to foretell future events without inspiration.
SOOTHSAYING
SOOTH'SAYING, noun The foretelling of future events by persons without divine aid or authority, and thus distinguished form prophecy.
SOOTINESS
SOOT'INESS, noun [from sooty.] The quality of being sooty or foul with soot; fuliginousness.
SOOTISH
SOOT'ISH, adjective Partaking of soot; like soot.
SOOTY
SOOT'Y, adjective1. Producing soot; as sooty coal.2. Consisting of soot; fuliginons; as sooty matter.3. Foul with soot.4. Black like soot; dusky; dark; as the sooty flag of Ache...
SOP
SOP, noun1. Anything steeped or dipped and softened in liquor, but chiefly something thus dipped in broth or liquid food, and intended to be eaten. Sops in win, quantity for qua...
SOP-IN-WINE
SOP-IN-WINE, a kind of pink.SOP, verb transitive To steep or dip in liquor.
SOPE
SOPE, [See Soap.]
SOPH
SOPH, noun [Latin sophista.] In colleges and universities, a student in his second year; a sophomore.
SOPHI
SO'PHI, noun A title of the king of Persia.
SOPHICAL
SOPH'ICAL, adjective Teaching wisdom. [Not in use.]
SOPHISM
SOPH'ISM, noun [Latin sophisma.] A specious but fallacious argument; asubtilty in reasoning; an argument that is not supported by sound reasoning, or in which the inference is n...
SOPHIST
SOPH'IST, noun [Latin sophista.]1. A professor of philosophy; as the sophists of Greece.2. A captious or fallacious reasoner.
SOPHISTER
SOPH'ISTER, noun [supra.]1. A disputant fallaciously subtil; an artful but insidious logician; as an atheistical sophister Not all the subtil objection of sophisters and rabbies...
SOPHISTIC
SOPHIST'IC, SOPHIST'ICAL, adjective Fallaciously subtil; not sound; as sophistical reasoning or argument.
SOPHISTICAL
SOPHIST'IC, SOPHIST'ICAL, adjective Fallaciously subtil; not sound; as SOPHISTICAL reasoning or argument.
SOPHISTICALLY
SOPHIST'ICALLY, adverb With fallacious subtilty.
SOPHISTICATE
SOPHIST'ICATE, verb transitive1. To adulterate; to corrupt by something spurious or foreign; to pervert; as, to sophisticate nature, philosophy or the understanding.2. To adulte...
SOPHISTICATION
SOPHISTICA'TION, noun The act of adulterating; a counterfeiting or debasing the purity of some thing be a foreign admixture; adulteration.
SOPHISTICATOR
SOPHIST'ICATOR, noun One that adulterates; one who injures the purity and genuineness of any thing by foreign admixture.
SOPHISTRY
SOPH'ISTRY, noun1. Fallacious reasoning; reasoning sound in appearance only. These men have obscured and confounded the nature of things by their false principles and wretched s...
SOPHOMORE
SOPH'OMORE, noun [See Soph.] A student in a college or university, in his second year.