SORTAL
SORT'AL, adjective Pertaining to or designating a sort. [Not in use.]
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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SORTANCE
SORT'ANCE, noun Suitableness; agreement. [Not in use.]
SORTILEGE
SORT'ILEGE, noun [Latin sortilegium; sors, lot, and lego, to select.] The act or practice of drawing lots. [Sortilegy is not used.]
SORTILEGIOUS
SORTILEGIOUS, adjective Pertaining to sortilege.SORTI'TION, [Latin sortitio.] Selection or appointment by lot.
SORTMENT
SORT'MENT, noun1. The act of sorting; distribution into classes of kinds.2. A parcel sorted. [This word is superseded by assortment, which see.]
SORY
SORY, noun A fossil substance, firm, but of a spungy, cavernous structure, rugged on the surface, and containing blue vitriol; a sulphate of iron.
SOSS
SOSS, verb intransitive [This word is probably connected with the Armoric souez, surprise, the primary sense of which is to fall. See Souse.] To fall at once into a chair or sea...
SOT
SOT, noun1. A stupid person; a blockhead; a dull fellow; a dolt.2. A person stupefied by excessive drinking; an habitual drunkard. What can ennoble sots?SOT, verb transitive To ...
SOTHERNWOOD
SOTHERNWOOD, noun suth'ernwood, A plant agreeing in most parts with the wormwood. The southernwood is the Artemisia abrotanum, a different species form the wormwood.
SOTTISH
SOT'TISH, adjective1. Dull; stupid; senseless; doltish; very foolish. How ignorant are sottish pretenders to astrology!2. Dull with intemperance.
SOTTISHLY
SOT'TISHLY, adverb Stupidly; senselessly; without reason.
SOTTISHNESS
SOT'TISHNESS, noun1. Dullness in the exercise reason; stupidity. Few consider into what a degree of sottishness and confirmed ignorance men may sin themselves.2. Stupidity from ...
SOU
SOU, nounplural sous. A French money of account, and a copper coin, in value the 20th part of a livre or of a franc.
SOUCHONG
SOOSHONG', SOUCHONG', noun A kind of black tea.
SOUGH
SOUGH, noun suf. A subterraneous drain; a sewer. [Not in use.]
SOUGHT
SOUGHT, pret and participle passive of seek, pron, sawt. I am found of them who sought me not. Isaiah 65:1.
SOUL
SOUL, noun1. The spiritual, rational and immortal substance in man, which distinguishes him from brutes; that part of man which enables him to think and reason, and which render...
SOUL-BELL
SOUL-BELL, noun The passing bell.
SOUL-DESTROYING
SOUL-DESTROY'ING, adjective Pernicious to the soul. Procrastination of repentance and faith is a soul-destroying evil.
SOUL-DISEASED
SOUL-DISE'ASED, adjective Diseased in soul or mind. [Not in use.]
SOUL-SCOT
SOUL-SCOT, SOUL-SHOT, noun [soul and scot.] A funeral duty, or money paid by the Romanists in former times for a requiem for the soul.
SOUL-SELLING
SOUL-SELLING, adjective [soul and sell.] Selling persons; dealing in the purchase and sale of human beings.
SOUL-SHOT
SOUL-SCOT, SOUL-SHOT noun [soul and scot.] A funeral duty, or money paid by the Romanists in former times for a requiem for the soul.
SOUL-SICK
SOUL-SICK, adjective [soul and sick.] Diseased in mind or soul; morally diseased.
SOULED
SOULED, adjective Furnished with a soul or mind; as Grecian chiefs largely souled [Little used.]
SOULLESS
SOUL'LESS, adjective Without a soul, or without greatness or nobleness of mind; mean; spiritless. Slave, soulless villain.
SOUND
SOUND, adjective [Latin sanus.]1. Entire; unbroken; not shaky, split or defective; as sound timber.2. Undecayed; whole; perfect, or not defective; as sound fruit; a sound apple ...