4. Part. a 2. More or less ; not nothing He is somewhat arrogant at his first entrance; Something yet of doubt remains. Milton. and is too inquisitive through the whole; yet Years following years steal something ev'ry these imperfections hinder not our compassion. day, Dryden. Still from his little he could something spare, one place or other; not nowhere. Harte. Hopeless and forlorn 3. A thing wanting a fixed denomination. They are return’d, and somewbere live obscurely. Denbam. Compressing two prisms hard together, that their sides, which by chance were a very little dwell Harte. convex, might somewhere touch one another, I found the place in which they touched to be. Something of it arises from our infant state. come absolutely transparent, as if they had there Watts. been one continued piece of glass. Newton. 5. Distance not great. Does something still, and somewbere yet reI will acquaint you with the perfect spý o'th' main, time; for 't must be done to-night, and some- Reward or punishment ? Prict. thing from the palace. Shakspeare. Of the dead we must speak gently; and there SO'METHING. adv. In some degree. fore, as Mr. Dryden says somewbere, peace be The pain went away upon it; but he was to its manes. Popć. something discouraged by a new pain falling some SO'MEWHILE, n. s. (some and while.] days after upon his elbow on the other side. Temple. Once ; for a time. Out of use. SOʻMETIME, adv. [some and time.] Though under colour of the sheplerds someo wobile, 1. Once ; formerly. There crept in wolves full of fraud and guile, What art thou that usurp'st this time of night, That often devoured their own sheep, Together with that fair and warlike form, And often the shepherd that did 'em keep. In which the majesty of buried Denmark Speriet. Did sometime march? Shakspeare. SOMNI'FEROUS. adj. [somnifere, French ; Sbakspeare. somnifer, Latin.) Causing sleep; pro3. At one time or other hereafter. curing sleep ; soporiferous ; dormitive. SO'METIMES. adv. (some and times.] I wish for some somniferous potion, that might force me to sleep away the intermediate time, 1. Not never; now and then ; at one time as it does with men in sorrow. Walton. or other. It is good that we sometimes be contradicted, SOMNIFICK. adj. [somnus and facio, Lat.] and that we always bear it well; for perfect peace Causing sleep. cannot be had in this world. Taylor. SO'MNOLENCY. n. s. [somnolentia, Latin.) 2. At one time : opposed to sometimes, or Sleepiness; inclination to sleep. to another time. The body passive is better wrought upon at SON. n. s. (sunus, Gothick; runa, Saxon; sometimes than at others. Bacon. sohn, German ; son, Swedish ; sone, Sometimes the one, and sometimes the other, Dutch ; syn, Sclavonian.] may be glanced upon in these scripture de- 1. A malé born of one or begotten by one ; scriptions. Burnet. correlative to father or mother. He writes not always of a piece, but some- She had a son for her cradle, ere she had a times mixes trivial things with those of greater husband for her bed. Sbakspeare. moment: sometimes also, though not often, he Cast out this bondwoman and her son. Genesis. runs riot, and knows not when he has said He compares the affection of the Divine Being enough. Dryden. to the indulgence of a wise father, who would SO'MEWHAT. n. s. [some and what.) have his sons exercised with labour and pain, that 1. Something ; not nothing, though it be they may gather strength. Addison. uncertain what. 2. Descendant, however distant : as, the Upon the sea somewhat methought did rise sons of Adam. Like blueish mists. Dryden. I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient He that shuts his eyes against a small light, kings. Isaiab. on purpose to avoid the sight of somervbat that 3. Compellation of an old to a young man, displeases him, would, for the same reason, shut or of a confessor to his penitent. them against the sun. Atterbury Be plain, good son, and homely in thy drift ; 2. More or less. Riddling contession finds but riddling shrift. Concerning every of these, somewhat Christ Shekspeare. hath commanded, which must be kept till the world's end : on the contrary side, in every of 4. Native of a country. Britain then them somewhat there may be added, as the church judges it expedient. Hooker. Sees arts her savage sons controul. These salts have somewhat of a nitrous taste; 5. The second person of the Trinity. but mixt with a smatch of vitriolick. Grow. If thou be the son of God, come down. Matt. 6. Product of any thing. 3. Part, greater or less. Somerubat of his good sense will suffer in this Our imperfections prompt our corruption, and transfusion, and much of the beauty of his loudly tell us we are sons of earth. Brown thoughts will be lost. Dryden. Earth's tall sons, the cedar, oak, and pine, SO'MEWHAT. adv. In some degree. Their parents' undecaying strength declare. Blackmore. The flowre of armes, Lycymnius, that somewbat aged grew, Chapman. 7. In scripture, sons of pride, and sons of Holding of the breath doth help somewbat to light, denoting some quality. It is a sease the hiccough. Bacon. hebraism. Pope. specimen. sonata. on : This new fav'rite Either sergster holding out their throats, Of heav'n, this man of clay, son of despite. And folding up their wings, renew'd their notes, Milton. Dryden. SON-IN-LAW. n. s. One married to one's SO'NGSTRESS. n. s. [from song.) A fuimale daughter. sincer. If virtue no benighred beauty lack, Through the soft silence of the listening night Your son-in-law is far more fair than black. The sober-suited songstress crills her la Shakspeare. Í umson. A foreign son-in-law shall come from far, SO'NNET. n. s. sonnet, French; sonnetio, Whose race shall bear aloft the Latian name. Italian.) Dryden. 1. A short poem consisting of fourteen SO'NSHIP. n. s. [from son.] Filiation ; the lines, of which the rhymes are aujused character of a son. by a particular rule. It is not very suitThe apostle to the Hebrews makes afflictions able to the English language ; any has not only incident but necessary to christianity, not been used by any man of eminence the badge and cognizance of sonship. Decay of Piety. since Milton, of whose sonncts this is a SON A'T A. n. s. (Italian.] A tune. He whistled a Scorch tune, and an Italian A book was writ of late call’a Tetrachordon, Addison, And woven close, both matter, form, and stie; Could Pedro, think you, make no trial The subject new : it walk’d the town a-while, Of a sonata on his viol, Numb'ring good intellects, now seldom por'd Unless he had the total gut Whence every string at first was cut? Prior. Cries the stall-reader, Bless us, what a word on A title-page is this! and some in file SONG. n. s. [from sesungen, Saxon.] Stand spelling false, while one might walk to 1. Any thing modulated in the utterance. MileNoise other than the sound of dance and song. End-green. Why is it harder, sirs, than Gore Milton. don, He first thinks fit no sonnetter advance Colkitto, or Macdonnel, or Galasp? His censure farther than the song or dance. Those rugged names to our like mouths Dryden. grow sleek, 2. A poem to be modulated by the voice; That would have made Quintilian stare and a ballad. gasp: Pardon, goddess of the night, Thy age, like ours, soul of sir John Cheek, Tlose that slew thy virgin knight ; Hated not learning worse than toad or asp, For the which, with songs of woe, When thou taught'st Cambridge and king Round about his tomb they go! Sbakspeare. Milton, 2. A small poem. The merry songs of peace to all his neighbours. Let us into the city presently, Sbakspeare. To sort some gentlemen well skill'd in musick; 3. A poem ; lay ; strain. I have a sonnet that will serve the turn. Shaksp. The bard that first adorn’d our native tongue, SONNETTE'ER. M. s. [sonnetier, Fr. from Tun'd to his British lyre this ancient song. Dryd. There we a while will rest; sonnet.] A small poet, in contempt. Assist me, some extemporal god of rhime; for Our next ensuing song to wond'rous things ad I am sure I shall turn sonnetteer. Sbakspears. There are as many kinds of gardening as of 4. Poetry ; poesy, poetry : your makers of parterres and flowerThis subject for heroick song pleased me. gardens are epigrammatists and connetteers in this Milton. Spectator. Names memorable long, What woful stuff this madrigal would be, If there be force in virtue or in song. In some starv'd hackney sonnetteer or me! 3. Notes of birds. But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines ! Saluted in her song the morning grey. Dryden. Pope. 6. Old SONG. A trifle. SONI'FEROUS. adj. [sonus and fero, Lat.] I do not intend to be thus put off with an old Giving or bringing sound. song: More. This will appear, let the subject matter of A hopeful youth, newly advanced to great sounds be what it will; either the atinosphere, or honour, was forced by a cobler to resign all for the etherial part thereof, or soniferous particles Addison. of bodies. Derban. SO'NGISH. adj. [from song.] Containing SONORI'Fick, adj. [sonorus and facio, songs ; consisting of songs. A low Lat.] Producing sound. word. If he should ask me why a clock strikes, and The songish part must abound in the softness points to the hour; and I should say, it is by an and variety of numbers, its intention being to indicating form and sonorifick quality, this would please the hearing Dryden. Watts. SO'NGSTER. n. s. [from song.) A singer. SONOROUS. adj. [sonore, Fr. sonorus, Used of human singers, it is a word of Latv.) slight contempt. 1. Loud sounding ; giving loud or shrill The pretty songsters of the spring, with their solind. Bodies are distinguished as sovarious notes, did seem to welcome him as he norous or unsonorows. passed. Howel. All the while Some songsters can no more sing in any cham- Sonorous metal blowing martial sounds; ber but their own, chao soine clerks read in any At which the universal host up sent book but their own, L'Estrange Miltor. VOL. IV. o art. Pope. an old song sooner. 2. High sounding ; magnificent of sound. the chimney, and some appointed to sweep down The Italian opera, amidst all the meanness the sout, the house will be in danger of burning. Howel. and familiarity of the thoughts, has something beautiful and sonorous in the expression. Addison. Oft they assay'd, The vowels are sonorous. Dryden. Hunger and thirst constraining; drugg'd as oft SONO'ROUSLY. adv. [from sonorous.] With hatefullest disrelish, writh'd their jaus, Milton. With high sound ; with magnificence of Our household gods, that droop upon our sound. hearths, SONO'ROUSNESS. n. s. [from sonorous. ] Each from his venerable face shall brush 1. The quality of giving sound. The Macedonian soot, and shine again. Dryden. Fnquiring of a maker of viols and lutes of So'OTED. adj. (from soot. Smeared, ma. what age he thought lutes ought to be, to attain nured, or covered with soot. their full and best seasoning for sonororisness, he The land was sooted before. Mortimer. replicd, That in some twenty years would be re- So'oTERKIN. 1. s. A kind of false birth quisite, and in others foriy, Boyle. fabled to be produced by the Dutch 2. Magnificence of sound. women from sitting over their stoves. SOON. ada. [suns, Gothick; sona, Sax. When Jove was, from his teeming head, saen, Dutch.] Of wit's fair goddess brought to bed, 1. Before long time be past ; shortly after There follow'd at his lying-in, any time assigned or supposed. For after-birth, a soctcrkin. Swift. Nor did they not perceive their evil plight, SooTH. n. s. (ros, Sax.] Truth; reality. Yet to their general's voice they soon obevid. Obsolete. Milion. Sir, understand you this of me in soolb, The youngest daughter, whom you hearken for, Why should you vajniy struggle with your fa-e? Her father keeps from all access of suitors, Dryen. Until the clder sister first be wed. Sbakspeare. 2. Early ; before any time supposed: op- He looks like sooth : he says he loves my posed to late. daughter; O boy! thy father gave the life too soon, I think so too; for never gaz'd the moon And hath bertft thee if thy life too late. $215. Upon the water, as he 'li stand and read Do this, that I may be restored to you the Niy daughter's cyes. Sbakspeare, Hebrows. If I have any skill in soothsaying, as in seath How is it that you are come so soon to-day? I have none, it doth prognosticate that I shall Exod's. Camdoo. The earlier stareth for the later, and unt the The very sootb of it is, that an ill habit has later cometh sooner. Dicon. L'Estrange I did not mean to chide vou; 3. Readily ; willingly. I would as soon see a river winding through For, senth to say, I hold it nehle in you woods and meadows, 35 when it is possed up in To cherish the distress'd. Roge. so many whimsical figures at Versailles. alisom. SOOTH. adj. (rod, Sax.] Pleasing; de4. It has in Sicney the signification oi an lightful. adjective, whether licentiously or Some other means I have, Which once of Melibaus odd I learn'd, cording to the custom of his time. He hath preserved Arsalus alive, under pre The sootbest shepherd thai c'er pip'd on plains. Milton. tence of having him publickly executed after these wars, of which they hope for a son and Sooth. n. s. Sweetness; kindness. This prosperous issue. Siany. seems to be the meaning here. 5. Soon as. Immediately; at the very That e'er this tongue of mine, time. That laid the sentence of dread banishment On yond proud man, should take it off again As soon as he came high unto the camp, he With words of south! Shakspeare. saw the calf and the dance. Exodus. Nor was his virtue peisun'd, soon as bon, 7. SOOTH. v, a. (zerodian, Saxon.] With the too early tho.ights of being king. 1. To Batter; to please with blandish Dryden. monts. Feasts, and business, and pleasures, and the In soothing them, we nourish’gainst our senate joyments, scem great ihings to us, whilst we The cockle ot rebellion, insolence, sedition. think of nothing Use; but as soon as we add Sbakspeare. death to them, they all sink into an equal little Cau I sooth tyranny ? Laru. Seem peas'd to see my roval master murder'd, So'Only, odz. [from soon.] Quickly ; His clown usurp'd, a distaff in the throne? Dryd. specdily. This word I remember in no By his fair daughter is the chief contin'd, Who souths to dear delight his anxious mind ; othư place; but it soon be, as it seems Successless all her soft caresses prove, once to have been, an adjective, sooney To banish from his breast his country's love. is proper. A mason meets with a stone that wants no Thinks he that Memnon, soldier as he is, cutting, and, soyaby approving of it, places it in Thoughtless and dull, will listen to his soet bing? his work. llore. Rosca So' PEERRY. N. s. [sapindus, Latin.) A I've tried the force of every reason on him, plant. Miller. Sooth'd and caressid, been angry, sootb'd again ; SOOT. n. s. [rot, Saxon; scot, Islandick; Laid safety, life, and interest, in his sight; But ail are vain, he scorns them all for Cato. sait, Dutch.] Condensed or embodied Addison, 2. To calm ; to soften : to mollify. Sni, though thin spread in a field, is a very The beldame good compost. Bacon. Scoths her with bland :hments, and frights with If the fire be not kept within the tunnel of threats, . Pope Dozás. . matter. SOP 3. To gratify; to please. T. SOP. vj. a. To steep in liquor. fame, SOPH. n. s. [from sophista, Lat.]. A young So'OTHER. N. s. [from sooth.] A flatterer; man who has been two years at the unione who gains by blandishments. versity. I cannot flatter: I defy Three Cambridge sophs and three pert temThe tongues of soothers. plars came, Sbakspeare. The sanie their talents, and cheir tastes the same; prompt to query, ansuer, and debate, predict; to foretell. And smit with love of poesy url prate. Pope. A damsel, possessed with a spirit of divination, So'PHI. n. s. [Persian.] The emperour met us, which brought her masters much gain of Persia. by sostbsaying: Acts. By this scimitar Soo’THSAYER. N. s. [from soothsay.] A That slew the sopbi and a Persian prince. Shaks. foreteller; a predicter; a prognosticator. A fig for the sultan and sopbi. Congreve. Scarce was Musidorus made partaker of this oft blinding light, when there were found num SO'PHISM. n. s. [sophisma, Lat.) A fallabers of scoth sayers, who affirmed strange and in- cious argument ; an unsound subtilty; a credible things should be performed by that failacy. child. Sidney, When a false argument puts on the appear. A soothsayer bids you beware the ides of ance of a true one, then it is properly called a March. Sbakspeare. sopbism or fallacy. Watts. He was animated to expect the papacy by the I, who as yet was never known to show prediction of a soothsayer, that one should suc- False pity to premeditated woe, ceed pope Leo, whose name should be Adrian, Will graciously explain great nature's laws, an aged man of mean birth, and of great learn- And hear thy sophisms in so plain a cause. ing and wisdom. Bacon. Harte. Soo'riness. n. s. [from sooty.] The qua- So'rhist. n. s. [sophista, Lat.) A pro lity of being sooty; fuliginousness. fessor of philosophy. Soo'ry. adj. [from soot.] The court of Crasus is said to have been mucli 1. Breeding soot. resorted to by the sophists of Greece, in the hapBy fire of sooty coal th' alchymist turns py beginning of his reign. Tempie. Metals to gold. Milton. SO'PHISTER. n. so (sophiste, Fr. sophista, 2. Consisting of soot ; fuliginous. Latin.] There may be some chymical way so to defe- 1. A disputant fallaciously subtle ; an art. cate this oil, that it shall not spend into a sooty ful but insidious logician. Wilkin.. A subtle traitor needs no sophister. Shukin. 3. Black; dark; dusky. If a heathen philosopher brings arguments from All the grisly legions that troop reason, which none of our atheistical.plistors Under the sooty flag of Acheron; can confute, for the immortality of the soul, I Harpies and hydras, and all monstrous forms. hope they will so weigh the consequences, as Milton. neither to talk our live as if there svas no such Swift on his sooty pinions flits the thing. Derbun. And in a vapour reach'd the gloomy dome. Pope. Not all the subtie objections of sophisters and To Soo'ty. v. n. (from soot.) To make rabbies, against the gospel, so much prejudiced black with soot. the reception of it, as the reproach of thouse Then (for his own weeds) shirt and coat all crimes with which they aspersed the assemblies of christians. Kugers Tann'd and all sootied with noisome smoke, 2. A professor of philosophy; a sophist. She put him on; and over all a cioke. Chapman. This sense is antiquated. Sop. n. s. [rop, Saxon ; sopa, Spanish ; Alcidimus the sophister hath arguments to prove, that voluntary and extemporal tar excelsoppe, Dutch.] lern premeditated speech. Hlouhsr. 1. Any thing steeped in liquor, commonly SOPHISTICAL. adj. (sophistique, Fr. from to be eaten. sophist.) Fallaciously subtle, logically The bounded waters deceitful. Would lift their bosoms higher than the shores, Neither know I whether I should prefer für And make a sop of all this solid globe. Shaksp. madness, and sophistical couzenage, that the Draw, you rogue! for though it be night, yet same body of Cirrist should be in a thousand the moon shines: I 'll make a sop o'th' moon Sbakspeare. places at once of this sublunary world. Huli When the state of the controversy is well u!lSops in wine, quantity for quantity, inebriate derstood, the difficulty will no be great iin gisine more than wine of itself. Bacon. answers to all his sopbistical cavils. Shilling 1.c!. 2. Any thing given to pacify, from the That may seemn a demonstration for the pie. sop given to Cerberus. sent, which to posterity will appear a mere som The prudent Sibyl had before prepard phistical knot. A sop, in honey steep'd, to charni the guard; Sópul'STICALLY. adv. [from söpnisté Whích, mix'd with powerful drugs, she cast be- ca!.! With fallacious subtity. fore His greedy grinning jaws, just op'd to roar. Boling broke argues most supuistically. Szuifi. T. Supil's TICATE. v. a. (sophistiqa to Dryden. III nature is not cured with a sop; quarrel Fr. from sophist.] To adulteratc ; Do some men, as well as quarrelsome curs, are corrupt wilh something spurious. worse for fair usage. L'Estrang:. If the passions of the mind be strong, they To Cerberus they give a sop, easily saphisticate the understanding; they make His triprle barking moutis iw stop. Solift. it apt to believe upon ev. tyalender parau, ucd gnome, rent, shine of you. Mure, Pope. co imagine infallible truth where scarce any pro- SOPORI'FEROUSNESS. n. s. [from soporibable shew appeareth. Hooker. ferous.] The quality of causing sleep. Here's three of us are sophisticated. Shaksp. SÖPORI'PICK. adj. [sopor and facio.] Divers experiments succeeded not, because they were at one time tried with genuine mate Causing sleep; opiate ; narcotick. riais, and at another time with sophisticated ones. The colour and taste of opium are, as well as Bovle. its soporifick or anodyne virtues, mere powers The only persons amongst the heathens who depending on its primary qualities. Locke, sophisticated nature and philosophy, were the SO'PPER, 1. s. (from sop.] One that stoicks; who athirmed a fatal, unchangeable con- steeps any thing in liquor. catenation of causas, reaching even to the elicite SORB. 1. s. (sorbum, Lat.] The berry acts of man's will. Soutb. of the sorb or service-tree. Yet the rich cullies may their boasting spare; So'r BILE. adj. [from sorbeo, Lat.] That They purchase but saphisticated ware: 'T is prod gality that buys deceit, may be drunk or sipped. Where both the giver and the taker cheat. Dryd. SOKBI'TION. n. s. (sorbitio, Lat.] The The eye hath its coats and humours transpa- act of drinking or sipping, rent and colourless, lest it should tinge and so SO'RCERER, n. s. (sorcier, Fr. sortiarius, phisticate the light that it lets in by a natural jaundice. Beniley. low Lat.] A conjurer; an enchanter ; SOPHISTICATE. part. adj. [from the a magician. They say this town is full of cozenage; verb.] Adulterate; not genuine. As nimble jugglers that deceive the eye, Wine sparkles brighter far than she; Drug-working sorcerers that change the mind, ”T is pure and right, without deceit, Soul-killing witches that deform the body, And that no wornan e'er will be: And many such like libertines of sin. Shaksp. No, they are all smpbisticate. Cozuley. The weakness of the power of witches upon Since then a great part of our scientifical trea kings and magistrates may be ascribed to the sure is most likely to be adulterate, though all weakness of imagination; for it is hard for a bears the image and superscription of truth; the witch or a sorcerer to put on a belief that they only way to know what is sopbisticate, and what can hurt such. Bacon is not so, is to bring all to the examen of the He saw a sable sorcerer arise, touchstone. Glanville. All sudden gorgons hiss, and dragons glare, So truth, when only one supplied the state, And ten horn'd fiends. Grew scarce and dear, and yet sophisticate. The Egyptian sorcerers contended with MoDryden. ses; but the wonders which Moses wrought did SOPHISTICA’TION. n. s. [sophistication, so far transcend the power of magicians, as made Fr. from sophisticate.] Adulteration; them contess it was the finger of God. Watts. not genuineness. SO'RCERESS. n. s. (female of sorcerer.] Å Sophistication is the act of counterfeiting or female magician; an enchantress. adulterating any thing with what is not so good, Bring forth that sorceress condemn’d to burn. for the sake of unlawful gain. Quincy. Sbalspeare The drugs and simples sold in shops generally Divers witches and sorceressos have fed upon are adulterated by the fraudulent avarice of the man’s flesh, to aid their imagination with high sellers, especially if the preciousness may make and foul vapours. Bacon. their sopbistication very beneficial. Boyie. The snaky sorceress that sat Besides easy submission to sophistications of Just by hell-gate, and kept the fatal key, sense, we have inability to prevent the iniscar- Ris'n, and with hideous outcry rushi'd between. riages of our junior reasons. Glanville. Milton. SOPHISTICA'TOR. n. s. [from sophisti How cunningly the sorceress displays cate.] Adulterator; one that makes Her own transgressions, to upbraid me mine! Milica tbings not genuine. SO'RCEROUS. adj. Containing enchaniSO'PHISTRY.n. s. [from sophist.] ments. Not used. 1. Fallacious ratiocination. Th' art entring Circe's house, His sophistry prevailed; his father believed. Where by her med cines, black and sorcerons, Sidney. Thy souldiers all are shut in well-arm'd stics, These men have obscured and confounded the And turn'd to swine. Chapman. natures of things, by their false principles and SOʻRCERY. 1. s. Magick; enchantment; wretched sophistry; though an act be never so sinful, they will strip it of its guilt. South. conjuration : witchcraft; charms. This witch Sycorax, 2. Logical exercise. For mischiefs manifold, and sorceries terrible, The more youthful exercises of sophistry, themes and declamations. Felton. Sbakspeare. Adders wisdom I have learn’d, To SO'PORATE. '. 11. [soporo, Lat.] To To fence my ears against thy sorceries. Milton. lay asleep. Dict. Actzon has long tracts of rich soil; but had SOPORI'FEROUS. adj. [sopor and fero.] the misfortune in his youth to fall under the Productive of sleep; causing sleep; nar- power of sorcery: Tailer. cotick; opiate ; dormitive ; somnifer- Sord. n. n. s. [corrupted from sward.) ous; anodyne ; sleepy. Turf; grassy ground. The particular ingredients of those magical This is the prettiest low-born lass that ever ointments are opiate and soporiferous; for anoint ran on the green sord. $Lakspears. ing of the forehead, neck, feet, and back-bone, An altar of grassy sord. Milton. procures dead sleeps. Bacon. SO'RDFS. n. s. (Lat.] Foulness ; dregs. While the whole operation was performing, I The sea washes off the soil and sordes wherein lay in a profound sleep, by the force of that so- mineral mosses were involved and concealed, puriferous medicine infused into my liquor, and thereby renders them more conspicuous. Swift. Wondvara |