Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Sorriness

Sor″ri‐ness, n. The quality or state of being sorry.

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Sorrow

Sor″row (?), n. [OE. sorwe, sorewe, sor�e, AS. sorg, sorh; akin to D. zorg care, anxiety, OS. sorga, OHG. sorga, soraga, suorga, G. sorge, Icel., Sw., & Dan. sorg, Goth. saúrga;...

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Sorrow (2)

Sor″row, v. i. [imp. & p. p.Sorrowed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Sorrowing.] [OE. sorowen, sorwen, sorhen, AS. sorgian; akin to Goth. saúrgan. See Sorrow, n.] To feel pain of mind in co...

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Sorrowed

Sor″rowed (?) (�), a. Accompanied with sorrow; sorrowful. Shak.

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Sorrowful

Sor″row‐ful (?), a. [OE. sorweful, AS. sorgful.] 1. Full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; dejected; distressed. “This sorrowful prisoner.” Chaucer.My soul is exceeding sorrowf...

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Sorrowless

Sor″row‐less, a. Free from sorrow.

7351

Sorry

Sor″ry (?), a. [Compar.Sorrier (?); superl.Sorriest.] [OE. sory, sary, AS. sārig, fr. sār, n., sore. SeeSore, n. & a. The original sense was, painful; hence, miserable, sad.] 1....

7352

Sors

‖Sors (?), n.; pl.Sortes (#). A lot; also, a kind of divination by means of lots.Sortes HomericæorVirgilianæ, a form of divination anciently practiced, which consisted in taking...

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Sort

Sort (?), n. [F. sorl, L. sors, sortis. See Sort kind.] Chance; lot; destiny.By aventure, or sort, or cas. Chaucer.Let blockish Ajax drawThe sort to fight with Hector. Shak.

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Sort (2)

Sort, n. [F. sorie (cf. It. sorta, sorte), from L. sors, sorti, a lot, part, probably akin to serere to connect. See Series, and cf. Assort, Consort, Resort, Sorcery, Sort lot.]...

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Sort (3)

Sort (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Sorted; p. pr. & vb. n.Sorting.] 1. To separate, and place in distinct classes or divisions, as things having different qualities; as, to sort cloth...

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Sort (4)

Sort, v. i. 1. To join or associate with others, esp. with others of the same kind or species; to agree.Nor do metals only sort and herd with metals in the earth, and minerals w...

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Sortable

Sort″a‐ble (?), a. [Cf. F. sortable suitable.] 1. Capable of being sorted.2. Suitable; befitting; proper. con.

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Sortably

Sort″a‐bly, adv. Suitable. otgrave.

7359

Sortal

Sort″al (?), a. Pertaining to a sort. Locke.

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Sortance

Sort″ance (?), n. [From Sort, v. i.] Suitableness; agreement. hak.

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Sorter

Sort″er (?), n. One who, or that which, sorts.

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Sortes

‖Sor″tes (?), n., pl. of Sors.

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Sortie

Sor″tie (?; 277), n. [F., fr. sortir to go out, to issue, probably fr. L. sortus, for surrectus, p. p. of surgere to raise up, to rise up. See Source.] (Mil.) The sudden issuing...

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Sortilege

Sor″ti‐lege (?), n. [F. sortilège, fr. L. sors, sortis, a lot + legere to gather, to select.] The act or practice of drawing lots; divination by drawing lots.A woman infamous fo...

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Sortilegious

Sor′ti‐le″gious (?), a. Pertaining to sortilege.

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Sortilegy

Sor″til″e‐gy (?), n. Sortilege. De Quincey.

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Sortita

‖Sor‐ti″ta (?), n. 1. The air sung by any of the principal characters in an opera on entering.2. A closing voluntary; a postlude.

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Sortition

Sor‐ti″tion (?), n. [L. sortitio, from sortiri to draw or cast lots, fr. sors, sortis, a lot.] Selection or appointment by lot. Bp. Hall.

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Sortment

Sort″ment (?), n. Assortiment.

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Sorus

‖So″rus (?), n.; pl.Sori (#). (Bot.) One of the fruit dots, or small clusters of sporangia, on the back of the fronds of ferns.

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Sorus (2)

So″rus (?), n. (a) In parasitic fungi, any mass of spores bursting through the epidermis of a host plant. (b) In lichens, a heap of soredia on the thallus.