Soundly Sound"ly adverb In a sound manner.

Soundness Sound"ness noun The quality or state of being sound; as, the soundness of timber, of fruit, of the teeth, etc.; the soundness of reasoning or argument; soundness of faith.

Syn. -- Firmness; strength; solidity; healthiness; truth; rectitude.

Soune Soune transitive verb & i. To sound. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Sounst Sounst adjective Soused. See Souse . [ Obsolete]

Soup Soup noun [ French soupe , Old French sope , supe , soupe , perhaps originally, a piece of bread; probably of Teutonic origin; confer Dutch sop sop, German suppe soup. See Sop something dipped in a liquid, and confer Supper .] A liquid food of many kinds, usually made by boiling meat and vegetables, or either of them, in water, -- commonly seasoned or flavored; strong broth.

Soup kitchen , an establishment for preparing and supplying soup to the poor. -- Soup ticket , a ticket conferring the privilege of receiving soup at a soup kitchen.

Soup Soup transitive verb To sup or swallow. [ Obsolete] Wyclif.

Soup Soup transitive verb To breathe out. [ Obsolete] amden.

Soup Soup transitive verb To sweep. See Sweep , and Swoop . [ Obsolete]

Soupçon Soup`çon" noun [ French] A suspicion; a suggestion; hence, a very small portion; a taste; as, coffee with a soupçon of brandy; a soupçon of coquetry.

Soupe-maigre Soupe`-mai"gre noun [ French] (Cookery) Soup made chiefly from vegetables or fish with a little butter and a few condiments.

Souple Sou"ple noun That part of a flail which strikes the grain. Knight.

Soupy Soup"y adjective Resembling soup; souplike.

Sour Sour adjective [ Compar. Sourer ; superl. Sourest .] [ Middle English sour , sur , Anglo-Saxon s...r ; akin to Dutch zuur , German sauer , Old High German s...r , Icelandic s...rr , Swedish sur , Danish suur , Lithuanian suras salt, Russian surovui harsh, rough. Confer Sorrel , the plant.] 1. Having an acid or sharp, biting taste, like vinegar, and the juices of most unripe fruits; acid; tart.

All sour things, as vinegar, provoke appetite.

Bacon.

2. Changed, as by keeping, so as to be acid, rancid, or musty, turned.

3. Disagreeable; unpleasant; hence; cross; crabbed; peevish; morose; as, a man of a sour temper; a sour reply. "A sour countenance." Swift.

He was a scholar . . .
Lofty and sour to them that loved him not,
But to those men that sought him sweet as summer.

Shak.

4. Afflictive; painful. " Sour adversity." Shak.

5. Cold and unproductive; as, sour land; a sour marsh.

Sour dock (Botany) , sorrel. -- Sour gourd (Botany) , the gourdlike fruit Adansonia Gregorii , and A. digitata ; also, either of the trees bearing this fruit. See Adansonia . -- Sour grapes . See under Grape . -- Sour gum (Botany) See Turelo . -- Sour plum (Botany) , the edible acid fruit of an Australian tree ( Owenia venosa ); also, the tree itself, which furnished a hard reddish wood used by wheelwrights.

Syn. -- Acid; sharp; tart; acetous; acetose; harsh; acrimonious; crabbed; currish; peevish.

Sour Sour noun A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect. Spenser.

Sour Sour transitive verb [ Anglo-Saxon s...rian to sour, to become sour.] 1. To cause to become sour; to cause to turn from sweet to sour; as, exposure to the air sours many substances.

So the sun's heat, with different powers,
Ripens the grape, the liquor sours .

Swift.

2. To make cold and unproductive, as soil. Mortimer.

3. To make unhappy, uneasy, or less agreeable.

To sour your happiness I must report,
The queen is dead.

Shak.

4. To cause or permit to become harsh or unkindly. " Souring his cheeks." Shak.

Pride had not sour'd nor wrath debased my heart.

Harte.

5. To macerate, and render fit for plaster or mortar; as, to sour lime for business purposes.

Sour Sour intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Soured ; present participle & verbal noun Souring .] To become sour; to turn from sweet to sour; as, milk soon sours in hot weather; a kind temper sometimes sours in adversity.

They keep out melancholy from the virtuous, and hinder the hatred of vice from souring into severity.

Addison.

Source Source noun [ Middle English sours , Old French sourse , surse , sorse , French source , from Old French sors , past participle of Old French sordre , surdre , sourdre , to spring forth or up, French sourdre , from Latin surgere to lift or raise up, to spring up. See Surge , and confer Souse to plunge or swoop as a bird upon its prey.] 1. The act of rising; a rise; an ascent. [ Obsolete]

Therefore right as an hawk upon a sours
Up springeth into the air, right so prayers . . .
Maken their sours to Goddes ears two.

Chaucer.

2. The rising from the ground, or beginning, of a stream of water or the like; a spring; a fountain.

Where as the Poo out of a welle small
Taketh his firste springing and his sours .

Chaucer.

Kings that rule
Behind the hidden sources of the Nile.

Addison.

3. That from which anything comes forth, regarded as its cause or origin; the person from whom anything originates; first cause.

This source of ideas every man has wholly in himself.

Locke.

The source of Newton's light, of Bacon's sense.

Pope.

Syn. -- See Origin .

Sourcrout Sour"crout` noun See Sauerkraut .

Sourde Sourde intransitive verb [ French sourdre . See Source .] To have origin or source; to rise; to spring. [ Obsolete]

Now might men ask whereof that pride sourdeth .

Chaucer.

Souring Sour"ing noun (Botany) Any sour apple.

Sourish Sour"ish adjective Somewhat sour; moderately acid; as, sourish fruit; a sourish taste.

Sourkrout Sour"krout` noun Same as Sauerkraut .

Sourly Sour"ly adverb In a sour manner; with sourness.

Sourness Sour"ness noun The quality or state of being sour.

Sours Sours noun Source. See Source . [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Soursop Sour"sop` noun (Botany) The large succulent and slightly acid fruit of a small tree ( Anona muricata ) of the West Indies; also, the tree itself. It is closely allied to the custard apple.

Sourwood Sour"wood` noun (Botany) The sorrel tree.

Sous, Souse Sous, Souse (F. sō; colloquial Eng . sous) noun A corrupt form of Sou. [ Obsolete] Colman, the Elder.

Souse Souse noun [ Old French sausse . See Sauce .] [ Written also souce , sowce , and sowse .] 1. Pickle made with salt.

2. Something kept or steeped in pickle; esp., the pickled ears, feet, etc., of swine.

And he that can rear up a pig in his house,
Hath cheaper his bacon, and sweeter his souse .

Tusser.

3. The ear; especially, a hog's ear. [ Prov. Eng.]

4. The act of sousing; a plunging into water.

Souse Souse transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Soused ; present participle & verbal noun Sousing .] [ Confer French saucer to wet with sauce. See Souse pickle.] 1. To steep in pickle; to pickle. "A soused gurnet." Shak.

2. To plunge or immerse in water or any liquid.

They soused me over head and ears in water.

Addison.

3. To drench, as by an immersion; to wet throughly.

Although I be well soused in this shower.

Gascoigne.

Souse Souse intransitive verb [ Probably from Old French sors , past participle of sordre to rise, and first used of an upward swood, then of a swoop in general, but also confused with Souse , transitive verb See Source .] To swoop or plunge, as a bird upon its prey; to fall suddenly; to rush with speed; to make a sudden attack.

For then I viewed his plunge and souse
Into the foamy main.

Marston.

Jove's bird will souse upon the timorous hare.

J. Dryden. Jr.

Souse Souse transitive verb To pounce upon. [ R.]

[ The gallant monarch] like eagle o'er his serie towers,
To souse annoyance that comes near his nest.

Shak.

Souse Souse noun The act of sousing, or swooping.

As a falcon fair
That once hath failed or her souse full near.

Spenser.

Souse Souse adverb With a sudden swoop; violently. Young.

Souslik Sous"lik noun [ French] (Zoology) See Suslik .

Sout Sout noun Soot. [ Obsolete] Spenser.

Soutache Sou`tache" noun [ French] A kind of narrow braid, usually of silk; -- also known as Russian braid .

Soutage Sout"age noun [ Etymol. uncertain.] That in which anything is packed; bagging, as for hops. [ Obsolete] Halliwell.

Soutane Sou`tane" noun [ French, from Spanish sotana , or Italian sottana , Late Latin subtana , from Latin subtus below, beneath, from sub under.] (Eccl. Costume) A close garnment with straight sleeves, and skirts reaching to the ankles, and buttoned in front from top to bottom; especially, the black garment of this shape worn by the clergy in France and Italy as their daily dress; a cassock.

Souter Sou"ter noun [ Anglo-Saxon s...t...re , from Italian sutor , from suere to sew.] A shoemaker; a cobbler. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

There is no work better than another to please God: . . . to wash dishes, to be a souter , or an apostle, -- all is one.

Tyndale.

Souterly Sou"ter·ly adjective Of or pertaining to a cobbler or cobblers; like a cobbler; hence, vulgar; low. [ Obsolete]

Souterrain Sou"ter·rain noun [ French See Subterranean .] A grotto or cavern under ground. [ Obsolete] Arbuthnot.

South South noun [ Middle English south , suþ , Anglo-Saxon sūğ for sunğ ; akin to Dutch zuid , Old High German sund , German süd , süden , Icelandic suğr , sunnr , Danish syd , sönden , Swedish syd , söder , sunnan ; all probably akin to English sun , meaning, the side towards the sun. √297. See Sun .] 1. That one of the four cardinal points directly opposite to the north; the region or direction to the right or direction to the right of a person who faces the east.

2. A country, region, or place situated farther to the south than another; the southern section of a country. "The queen of the south ." Matt. xii. 42.

3. Specifically: That part of the United States which is south of Mason and Dixon's line. See under Line .

4. The wind from the south. [ Obsolete] Shak.

South South adjective Lying toward the south; situated at the south, or in a southern direction from the point of observation or reckoning; proceeding toward the south, or coming from the south; blowing from the south; southern; as, the south pole. "At the south entry." Shak.

South-Sea tea (Botany) See Yaupon .

South South adverb 1. Toward the south; southward.

2. From the south; as, the wind blows south . Bacon.

South South intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Southed ; present participle & verbal noun Southing .] 1. To turn or move toward the south; to veer toward the south.

2. (Astron.) To come to the meridian; to cross the north and south line; -- said chiefly of the moon; as, the moon souths at nine.

South southerly South` south"er·ly (Zoology) the old squaw; -- so called in imitation of its cry. Called also southerly , and southerland . See under Old .

Southcottian South·cot"ti·an noun (Eccl. Hist.) A follower of Joanna Southcott (1750-1814), an Englishwoman who, professing to have received a miraculous calling, preached and prophesied, and committed many impious absurdities.

Southdown South"down` adjective Of or pertaining to the South Downs, a range of pasture hills south of the Thames, in England.

Southdown sheep (Zoology) , a celebrated breed of shortwooled, hornless sheep, highly valued on account of the delicacy of their flesh. So called from the South Downs where the breed originated.

Southdown South"down` noun A Southdown sheep.

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