SOAPWORT
SOAPWORT, noun A plant of the genus Saponaria.
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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SOAPWORT, noun A plant of the genus Saponaria.
SOAPY, adjective1. Resembling soap; having the qualities of soap; soft and smooth.2. Smeared with soap.
SOAR, verb intransitive1. To fly aloft; to mount upon the wing; as an eagle. Hence,2. To rise high; to mount; to tower in thought or imagination; to be sublime; as the poet or o...
SOARING, participle present tense Mounting on the wing; rising aloft; towering in thought or mind.SOARING, noun The act of mounting on the wing, or of towering in thought or min...
SOB, verb intransitive To sigh with a sudden heaving of the breast, or a kind of convulsive motion; to sigh with deep sorrow or with tears. She sigh'd, she sobb'd, and furious w...
SOB'BING, participle present tense sighing with a heaving of the breast.
SO'BER, adjective [Latin sobrius.]1. Temperate in the use of spiritous liquors; habitually temperate; as a sober man. Live a sober righteous and godly life.2. Not intoxicated or...
SO'BERED, participle passive Make sober.
SO'BERLY, adverb1. Without intemperance.2. Without enthusiasm.3. Without intemperate passion; coolly; calmly; moderately.4. Gravely; seriously.
SO'BERMINDED, adjective Having a disposition or tempter habitually sober, calm and temperate.
SO'BERMINEDNESS, n, Calmness; freedon from inordinate passions; habitual sobriety.
SO'BERNESS, noun1. Freedom from intoxication; temperance.2. Gravity; seriousness.3. Freedom from heat and passion; calmness; coolness. The soberness of Virgil might have shown h...
SOBRI'ETY, noun [Latin sobrietas, from sobrius.]1. Habitual soberness or temperance in the use of spirituous liquors; as when we say. a man of sobriety2. Freedom from intoxicati...
SOC, noun [Latin sequor.]1. Properly, the sequela, secta or suit, or the body of suitors; hence, the power or privilege of holding a court in a district, as in a manor; jurisdic...
SOC'AGE, noun [from soc, supra, a privilege.] In English law, a tenure of lands and tenements by a cetain or determinate service; a tenure distinct from chivalry or knight's ser...
SOC'AGER, noun A tenant by socage; a socman.
SOCIABIL'ITY, noun Sociableness; disposition to associate and converse with others; or the practive of familiar converse.
SO'CIABLE, adjective [Latin sociabilis, from socius, a companion, probably from sequor, to follow. See Seek.]1. That may be conjoined; fit to be united in one body or company; a...
SO'CIABLENESS, noun Disposition to associate; inclination to company and converse; or actual frequent union in society or free converse. This word may signify either the disposi...
SO'CIABLY, adverb In a sociable manner; with free intercourse; conversibly; familiarly; as a companion.
SO'CIAL, adjective [Latin socialis, from socius, companion.]1. Pertaining to society; relating to men living in society. or to the publice as an aggregate body; as social intere...
SOCIAL'ITY, noun Socialness; the quality of being social.
SOCIALLY, adverb In a social manner or way.
SOCIALNESS, noun The quality of being social.
SOCI'ETY, noun [Latin societas, from socius, a companion. See Sociable.]1. The union of a number of rational beings; or a number of persons united, either for a temporary or per...
SOCIN'IAN, adjective [from Socinus, a native of Sienna, in Tuscany, the founder of the sect of Socinians in the 16th century.] Pertaning to Socinus, or his religious creed.SOCIN...
SOCINIANISM, noun The tenets or doctrines of Socinus, who held Christ to be a mere man inspired, denied his divinity and atonement, and the doctrine of original depravity.