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If a gentleman leaves a snuff box on the ta- So pleas'd at first the tow'ring Alps we try, ble, and goes away, lock it up as part of your Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the skv. vails. Swift.

Pope. Sir Plume, of amber snuffbox justly vain,

As into air the purer spirits flow, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane. Pope. And sep'rate from their kindred dregs below, SNO'FFER, N. s. [from snuff.] He that

Se flew her soul to its congenial place. Pope. snuffs.

2. To such a degree. SNU'FFERS. 1. s. [from snuff.] The in

Why is his chariot so long in coming? Julges, strument with which the candle is

Can nothing great, and at the height,

Remain so long, but its own weight
clipped.

Will ruin it? Or is 't blind chance
When you have snuffed the candle, leave the That still desires new states t'advance?
snuffers open.
Szvift.

Ben Fonson. To SNU'FFLE., v. . [snuffelen, Dutch.] Amoret, my lovely foe,

To speak through the nose; to breathe Tell me where thy strength does lie;
hard through the nose.

Where the pow'r that charms us so,
A water-spaniel came down the river, shew.

In thy soul, or in thy eye?

Waller. ing that he hunted for a duck; and with a snug

I viewed in my mind, so far as I was able, the ling grace, disdaining that his smelling force

beginning and progress of a rising world. Burnet. could not as well prevail through the water as

Since then our Arcite is with honour dead, through the air, waited with his eye to see whe

Why should we mourn that he so soon is freed. ther he could espy the duck's getting up again.

Dryder, Sidney.

Upon our first going into a company of strang. Bagpipes of the loudest drones,

ers, our benevolence or aversion rises towards With snuffling broken-winded tones,

several particular persons, before we have heard Whose blasts of air, in pockets shut,

them speak, or so much as know who they are. Sound filthier than from the gut. Hudibras.

Spectator. It came to the ape to deliver his opinion, who

We think our fathers fools, so wise we 're smelt and snuffled, and considered on't.

growin: L'Estrange.

Our wiser sons, no doubt, will think us so. Pupe. One clad in purple,

3. In such a manner. Eats and recites some lamentable rhyme;

There 's no such thing as that we beauty call, Some senseless Phillis in a broken note,

It is mere cosenage all; Snuffling at nose, and croaking in his throat. For though some long ago

Dryden.

Lik'd certain colours mingled so and so, SNU'FFLER. n. s. [from snufle.] He that

That doch not tie me now from chusing new. speaks through the nose.

Suckling.

We may be certain that man is not a creature To SNUG, v. n. [sniger, Dutch.] To lie that hath wings; because this only concerns the close ; to snudge.

manner of his existence; and we, seeing what he There snugging well, he well appear'd content, is, may certainly know that he is not so or so. So to have done amiss, so to be shent. Sidney.

Locke, As the loving couple lay, snugging together, I shall minutely tell him the steps by which I Venus, to try if the cat had changed her man- was brought into this way; that he may judge ners with her shape, turned a mouse loose into whether I proceeded rationally, if so be any thing the chamber.

L'Estrange. in my example is worth his notice. Lock: SNUG, adj. (from the verb.)

This gentleman is a person of good sense, and 1. Close ; free from any inconvenience,

knows that he is very much in sir Roger's esteem,

so that he lives in the family rather as a relation yet not splendid.

than dependent.

Addison. They spied a country farm, Where all was snug, and clean, and warm; 4. It is regularly answered by as or that, For woods before, and hills behind,

but they are sometimes omitted. Secur'd it both from rain and wind. Prior.

So frown’d the mighty combatants, that hell 2. Close ; out of notice.

Grew darker at their frown.

Milton. At Will's

There is something equivalent in France and Lie snug, and hear what criticks say. Sevift. Scotland; so as 't is a very hard calumny upon 3. Slily or insidiously close.

our soil to affirm that so excellent a fruit will Did I not see you, rascal! did I not,

not grow here.

Temple. When you lay snug, to snap young Damon's 5. In the same manner. goat?

Dryden. Of such examples add me to the roll; To SNU'GGLE. v. n. (from snug.] To lie Me easily indeed mine may neglect, close ; to lie warm.

But God's propos'd deliverance not so. Milton.

To keep up the tutor's authority, use him So. adv. (rpa, Saxon ; soo, Dutch; so,

with great respect yourself, and cause all your German.)

family to do so too.

Locke. 1. In like manner. It answers to as either According to the multifariousness of this im.

preceding or following. Noting com- mutability, so are the possibilities of being. parison.

Norris. As whom the fables feign of monstrous size,

6. Thus; in this manner.

: Titanian or earthborn, that warr'd on Jove,

Not far from thence the mournful fields apo So stretch'd out huge in length the arch fiend

pear, lay.

Milton.

So call's from lovers that inhabit there. Dryden. Thick as autumnal leaves that strewthe brooks Does this deserve to be rewarded so? In Valombrosa, where th' Etrurian shades Did you come here a stranger or a foe? Dryd. High over-arch'd embow'r, so thick bestrewn It concerns every man, with the greatest seAbject and lost lay these.

Milton. riousness, to enquire into those matters, whether Fir'd at first sight with what the muse imparts, they be so or not.

Tillitson. In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts; No nation ever complained they had too broad, VOL. IV.

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was so.

Pope.

too deep, or too many rivers; they understand

more so; that is, more valiant. The better than so how to value those inestimable

French article le is often used in the gifts of nature.

Bentley
S, when the first bold vessel dar'd the seas,

same manner.

This mode of expresHigh on the stern the Thracian rais'd his strain. sion is not to be used but in familiar

Pope. language, nor even in that to be com. Whether this be from an habitual motion of mended. the animal spirits, or from the alteration of the The fat with plenty fills my heart, Constitution by some more unaccountable way, The lean with love makes me too so. Cowley. this is certain, that so it is.

Locke.

Who thinks his wife is virtuous, tho' not so, 7. Therefore ; for this reason; in conse

Is pleas'd and patient till the truth he know.

Denban, quence of this.

Not to admire is all the art I know
The god, though loth, yet was constrain'd

To make men happy, and to keep them so. t' obey;

Creecb. For longer time than that no living wight

One
Below the earth might suffer'd be to stay:

may as well say, that the confiagration So back again him brought to living light.

shall be only national, as to say that the deluge

Burnet. Spenser.

However soft within themselves they are, Trafficke, or rove ye, and like theeves op

Το. you they will be valiant by despair; presse

For having once been guilty, well they know, Poore, strange adventurers; exposing so

To a revengeful prince they still are . Dryd. Your soules to danger, and your lives to wo?

He was great ere fortune made him so. Dryd.

Chapman.
If he set industriously and sincerely to per-

I laugh at every one, said an old cynick, who

laughs at me. Do you so ? replied the philosoform the commands of Christ, he can have no ground of doubting but it shall prove successful

pher; then you live the merriest life of any man in Athens.

Addison. to him; and so all that he hath to do is, to en

They are beautiful in themselves, and much deavour by prayer, and use of the means, to

more so in the noble language peculiar to that qualify himself for this blessed condition.

Himmond.
great poet.

Addison.

Common-place books have been long used by It leaves instruction, and so instructors, to the

industrious young divines, and still continue se. sobriety of the settled articles and rule of the

Swift. church.

Holyday. As to his using ludicrous expressions, my opiSome are fall’n, to disobedience fall’n;

nion is, that they are not so.

Pope. And so from heav'n to deepest bell. Milton.

The blest to-day is as completely so God makes him in his own image an intellee- As who began a thousand years ago. tual creature, and so capable of dominion. Locke.

12. Thus it is; this is the state. 8. On these terms : noting a conditional

How sorrow shakes him! petition ; answered by as.

So, now the tempest tears him up by th' roots, O goddess! tell what I would say,

And on the ground extends the noble ruin. Thou know'st it, and I feel too much to pray;

Dryden. So grant my suit, as I enforce my might, In love to be thy champion.

13. At this point ; at this time.
Dryden.

When
Here then exchange we mutually forgiveness:

With wild wood-leaves and weeds I ha' strew'd So may the guilt of all my broken vows,

his grave, My perjuries to thee be all forgotten;

And on it said a century of prayers, As here my soul acquits thee of my death,

Such as I can, twice o'er, I'll weep and sigh; ds here I part without an angry thought. Rowe. So may kied rains their vital moisture yield,

And, leaving so his service, follow you. Sbaksg. And swell the future harvest of thy field. Pope. 14. It notes a kind of abrupt beginning; 9. Provided that; on condition that:

well.

O, so, and had vou a council modo: Be not sad:

Of ladies too? Who was your speaker,

Madam ? Evil into the mind of God or man

Ben Jonsdu. May come and go, so unapprov'd, and leave 15. It sometimes is little more than an exNo spot or blame behind.

Milton.

pletive, though it implies some latent or Sothe doctrine be but wholesome and edifying,

surd comparison. In French, si. though there should be a want of exactness in the manner of speaking or reasoning, it may be

An astringent is not quite so proper, where

relaxing the urinary passages is necessary. overlooked. Atterbury.

Arbutbnet. Too much of love thy hapless friend has prov'd,

16. A word of assumption ; thus be it. Too many giddy foolish hours are gone;

There is Percy; if your father will do me any May the remaining few know only friendship: honour, so; if not, let him kill the next Percy So thou, my dearest, truest, best Alicia,

himself.

Sbakspeare. Vouchsafe to lodge me in thy gentle heart,

I will never bear a base mind : if A partner there; I will give up mankind. Rowe. destiny,so; if it be not, ro. No man is too good 10. In like manner : noting concession of

to serve his prince.

Sbakspeare. one proposition and assumption of an.

17. A form of petition.

Ready are th' appellant and defendant, other; answering to as.

The armourer and his man, to enter the lists, As a war should be undertaken upon a just

So please your highness to behold the tight. motive, so a prince ought to consider the condition he is in when he enters on it. Swijt18. So much as. However much.

Sbakspeare. II. So sometimes returns the sense of a

This

is, I think, an irregular expression. word or sentence going before, and is

So much as you admire the beauty of his used to avoid repetition; as, the two verse, his prose is full as good.

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chequer.

Wetton, Shakspeare,

So'a KER. n. s. [from soak.] it works : now, mistress, sit you fast.

1. He that macerates in any

moisture. Dryden. 2. A great drinker. In low language. 20. So so. [cosi cosi, Italian.] Indiffer- SOAP. n. s. [rape, Saxon ; sapo, Lat.) A ently; not much amiss nor well.

substance used in washing, made of a He's not very tall; yet for his years he's tall;

lixivium of vegetable alkaline ashes and His leg is but so so, and yet 't is well. Sbaksp. Deliver us from the nauseous repetition of As

any unctuous substance. and So, which some so se writers, I may call

Soap is a mixture of a fixed alkalinc salt and chem so, are continually sounding in our ears.

oil; its virtues are cleansing, penetrating, atteFelton.

nuating, and resolving; and any mixture of any 21. So then. Thus then it is that; there.

oily substance with salt may be called a soap.

Arbuthnot, fore.

He is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers soap. So tben the Volscians stand but as at first,

Malachi. Ready, when time shall prompt them, to make A bubble blown with water, first made tenaroad

cious by dissolving a little soap in it, after a Upon's again.

Sbakspeare. while will appear tinged with a great variety of To a war are required a just quarrel, suffi- colours.

Newton. cient forces, and a prudent choice of the de- Soap-earth is found in great quantity on the signs : soiben, I will first justify the quarrel, ba- land near the banks of the river Hermus, seven lance the forces, and propound designs. Bacon. miles from Smyrna.

Woodward. To SOAK. v. n. [rocian, Saxon.]

Soap-ashes are much commended, after the 1. To lie steeped in moisture.

soap-boilers have done with them, for cold or For thy conceit in soaking will draw in

sour lands.

Mortimer. More than the common blocks. Sbakspeare.

As rain-water diminishes their salt, so the 2. To enter by degrees into pores.

moistening of them with chamber-lee or soepe suds adds thereto.

Mortimer. Lay a heap of earth in great frosts upon a hollow vessel, putting a canvass between, and

SOAPBOI'LER. n. s. [sonp and boil.] One pour water upon it, so as to soak through : it

whose trade is to make soap. will make a harder ice in the vessel, and less apt A soapboiler condoles with me on the duties to dissolve than ordinarily. Bacon. on castle-soap.

Addison. Rain, soaking into the strata which lie near So'APWORT. n. s. [japonaria, Lat.) A the surface, bears with it all such moveable mat

species of campion.

Miller, Woodward.

To SOAR. v.n. [sorare, Italian.] 3. To drink gluttonously and intemper- 1. To fly aloft; to tower; to mount ; ately. This is a low term.

properly to fly without any visible acLet a drunkard see that his health decays, his tion of the wings. Milton uses it acestate wastes, yet the habitual thirst after his

tively. cups drives him to the cavern, though he has in his view the loss of health and plenty; the least

'Tis but a base ignoble mind

That mounts no higher than a bird can soar. of which he confesses is far greater than the tickling of his palate with a glass of wine, or the

Sbakspeare.

Feather'd soon and fledg'd, idle chat of a soaking club.

Locke. TO SOAK. v. a.

They summ’d their pens, and soaring th' air

sublime, 1. To macerate in any moisture; to steep; With clang despis'd the ground. Milton

to keep wet till moisture is imbibed ; to 2. To mount intellectually; to tower with drench.

the mind. Many of our princes

How high a pitch his resolution soars. Shaks. Lie drown'd and soak'd in mercenary blood :

Valour soars above So do our vulgar drench their peasant limbs What the world calls misfortune and affictions. In blood of princes. Shakspeare.

Addison. Their land shall be soaked with blood. Isaiah.

3. To rise high. There deep Galesus soaks the yellow sands.

Who aspires must down as low
Dryden.
As high he soar'd.

Millon. Wormwood, put into the brine you suak Flames rise and sink by fits; at last they soar your corn in, prevents the birds eating it.

In one bright blaze, and then descend no more. Mortimer,

Dryden. 2. To draw in through the pores.

When swallows fleet soar high, and sport in Thou, whose life's a dream of lazy pleasure :

air, 'Tis all thy bus'ness, bus'ness how to shun; He told us that the welkin would be clear. Gay. To bask thy naked body in the sun, Suppling thy stiffen'd joints with fragrant oil;

SOAR, N. s. [from the verb.] Towering Then in thy spacious garden walk a while, flight. To suck the moisture up and soak it in. Drgd.

Within soar 3. To drain ; to exhaust. This seems to Of tow'ring eagles, to all the fowls he seems be a cant term, perhaps used erroneously

A phanix.

Milton.

To S06. v. n. [reob, complaining, Saxon. for suck.

Perhaps it is a mere onomatopeia copied Plants that draw much nourishment from the earth, and soak and exhaust it, hurt all things

from the sound.] To heave audibly with that grow by them.

Bacon, convulsive sorrow; to sigh with con• A greater sparer than a saver; for though he

vulsion. kad such means to accumulate, yet his forts, and

When thy warlike father, like a child,

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Shall yield up all their virtue, all their fame He twenty times made pause to sob and weep. Ignobly to the trains and to the smiles Sbakspeare. Of these fair atheists.

Milton. As if her life and death lay on his saying,

Be your designs ever so good, your intentions Sone tears she shed, with sighs and sobbings ever so sober, and your searches directed in the mixt,

fear of God.

Walerland, As it her hopes were dead through his delaying. 5. Serious ; solemn ; grave.

Fairfax.

Petruchio
She sigh’d, she sebb’d, and furious with' de-

Shall offer me, disguis'd in sober robes,
spair,

To old Baptista as a schoolmaster. Sbakspesne. She rent her garments, and she tore her hair.

Come, civil night,
Dryden.

Thou sober-suited matron, all in black. Sbaks.
When children have not the power to obtain

Twilight grey their desire, they will, by their clamour and

Had in her sober liv'ry all things clad. Milton. sobbing, maintain their title to it. Locke.

What parts gay France from sober Spain? I sobb'd; and with faint eyes

A little rising rocky chain : Look'd upwards to the Ruler of the skies. Harte.

Of men born south or north o' th' hill, Sos. n. s. (from the verb.) A convulsive Those seldom move, these ne'er stand still.

Prior. sigh; a convulsive act of respiration ob

For Swift and him despis'd the farce of state, structed by sorrow.

The sober follies of the wise and great. Pope. Break, heart, or choak with sobs my hated

See her sober over a sampler, or gay over a breath,

jointed baby

Pope. Do thy own work, admit no foreign death.

TO SO'BER. v. a. (from the adjective.]

Dryden.
There oft are heard the notes of infant woe,

To make sober: to cure of intoxication. The short thick sob, loud scream, and shriller

A little learning is a dangerous thing;. squall.

Pope.

Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; A wond'rous bag with both her hands she

There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, binds :

And drinking largely søbers us again. Pope. There she collects the force of female lungs, So'Berly, adv. (from sober.] Sighs, sobs, and passions, and the war of tongues. 1. Without intemperance.

Popc.

2. Without madness. TO SOB, v. a. To soak. A cant word. The tree being sobbed and wet, swells. Mort.

3. Temperately ; moderately.

Let any prince think soberig of his forces So'BER. adj. (sobrius, Lat. sobre, Fr.]

except his militia of natives be valiant soldiers. 1. Temperate, particularly in liquors; not

Bacon, drunken.

4. Coolly ; calmly. Live a sober, righteous, and godly life. Com. Pr. Whenever children art chastised, let it be done

The vines give wine to the drunkard as well without passion, and soberly, laying on the blows as to the sober man. Taylor. slowly.

Lerke. No sober temperate person, whatsoever other

SO'BERNESS, n. s. [from sober.] sins he may be guilty of, can look with compla

1. Temperance in drink. cency, upon the drunkenness and sottishness of his neighbour.

South,

Keep my body in temperance, soberness, and chastity.

Common Prayer. 2. Not overpowered by drink.

2. Calmness; freedom from enthusiasm ; A law there is among the Grecians, whereof Pittacus is author; that he which being over

coolness. come with drink did then strike any man,

A person noted for his soberness and skill in should suffer punishment double as much as if

-spagyrical preparations, made Helmont's expco he had done the same being sober. Hooker.

riment succeed very well,

Bogies 3. Not mad; right in the understanding.

The soberness of Virgil might have shewn the

difference. Another, who had a great genius for tragedy,

Dryder. following the fury of his natural temper, made SOBRI'ETY. n. s. [from sobrieté, Fr. sar every man and woman in his plays stark raging brius, Latin.) mad: there was not a sober person to be liad;

1. Temperance in drink; soberness. all was tempestuous and blustering.. Dryden.

Drunkenness is more uncharitable to the soul, No saber man would put himself into danger, for the applause of escaping without breaking his

and in scripture is more declaimed against, than neck.

Dryden.

gluttony; and sobriety hath obtained to signify 4. Regular ; calm ; free from inordinate

temperance in drinking.

Tagior.

2. Present freedom from the power of passion. This same young sober blooded boy a man

strong liquor. cannot make him laugh.

Sbakspeare. 3. General temperance. Cieca travelled all over Peru, and is a grave

In setting down the form of common prayer, and sober writer.

Abbot.

there was no need that the book should menYoung men likewise exhort to be sober mind

tion either the learning of a fit, or the unfitness ed.

Titus.

of an ignorant, minister, more than that he which The governour of Scotland being of great

describeth the manner how to pitch a field, courage, and sober judgment, amply performed

should speak of moderation and sobriety in diet. his duty both before the battle and in the field.

Hooket. Hayward. 4. Freedom from inordinate passion. These confusions disposed men of any sober

The libertine could not prevail on men of virunderstanding to wish for peace. Clarendon. tue and sobriety to give up their religion. R gers,

Among them some sober men confessed, that s. Calmness; coolness. as his majesty's affairs then stood, he could not Enquire, with all sebriety and severity, whe

Clarendon, ther there be in the footsteps of nature any such To these that sober race of men, whose lives transmission of immateriate virtues, and what the Religious titled them the sges of God,

force of imagination is.

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Sabriety in our riper years is the effect of a SOCIAL. adj. (socialis, Latin.) veil concocted varmth; but, where the prine

1. Relating to general or publick interest; ciples are only phlegm, what can be expected but an insipid manhood, and old infancy? Dryd.

relating to society: If sometimes Ovid appears too gay, there is a

To love our neighbour as ourselves, is such a secret gracefulness of youth which accompanies

fundamental truth for regulating human society, his writings, though the stayedness and sobriety

that by that alone one might determine all the of age be wanting.

Locke, Dryden.

cases in social morality. 6. Seriousness; gravity:

True self-love and social are the same. Popes A report without truth; and, I had almost 2. Easy to mix in friendly gayety ; coinsaid, without any sobriety or modesty.

panionable.

Waterland. Withers, adieu! yet not with thee remove Mirth makes them not mad;

Thy martial spirit or thy social love. Pope. Nor sebriety sad.

Denbam. 3. Consisting in union or converse with SO'CCAGE. n. s. [soc, Fr. a ploughshare;

another. soccagium, barbarous Latin.] A tenure

Thou in thy secrecy although alone, of lands for certain inferiour or hus.

Best with thyself accompanied, seek'st not
Social communication.

Milton. bandly services to be performed to the SocialNess. n. s. [from social.] The lord of the fee. All services due for land being knight's ser

quality of being social. vice, or seccage; so that whatever is not knight's SOCIETY. n. s. [societé, French ; societas service, is sociage. This soccage is of three kinds;

Latin.] a sciage of free tenure, where a man holdeth 1. Union of many in one general interest. by free service of twelve pence a-year for all If the power of one society extend likewise to manner of services. Soccuge of ancient tenure the making of laws for another society, as if the is of land of ancient demesne, where no writ ori

church could make laws for the state in temginal shall be sued, but the writ secundum consue- porals, or the state make laws binding the church tudinem manerii. Soccage of base tenure is where relating to spirituals, then is that society entirely those that hold it may have none other writ but subject to the other.

Lesley. the monstraverunt, and such socmen hold not by 2. Numbers united in one interest ; comcertain service.

Cowell.

munity. The lands are not holden at all of her majesty, As the practice of piety and virtue is agreeor not holden in chief, but by a mean tenure in able to our reason, so is it for the interest of Sacag", or by knight's service.

Bacon.

private persons and publick societies. Tillotson, SO'CC AGER. n.s. . [from soccage.] A tenant

3. Company; converse. by soccage.

To make society SOCIABLE. adj. [sociable, Fr. sociabilis, The sweeter welcome, we will keep ourself Latin.)

Till supper-time alone.

Shakspeare. 1. Fit to be conjoined.

Whilst I was big in clamour, came there a

man, Another law ioucheth them, as they are som

Who having seen me in my worser state, ciable parts united into one body; a law which

Shunnid my abhorr'd society. bindeth them each to serve unto other's good,

Sbakspeare.

Solitude sometimes is best society, and all to prefer the good of the whole before whatsoever their own particular. Hooker.

And short retirement urges sweet return, Milt. 2. Ready to unite in a general interest.

4. Partnership ; union on equal terms. To make man mild and sociable to man;

Among unequals what society can sort?

Milton. To cultivate the wild licentious savage With wisdom, discipline.

Addison.

Heav'n's greatness no society can bear;

Servants he made, and those thou want'st not 3. Friendly ; familiar; conversible.

here.

Dryden. Them thus employ'd beheld Wih pity heav'n's high King, and to him callid Sock. n. s. [soccus, Latin; socc, Saxon ; Raphael, the sociable spirit, that deign'd

socke, Dutch. ] To travel with Tobias.

Milton.

1. Something put between the foot and 4. Inclined to company,

shoe. In children much solitude and silence I like

Ere I lead this life long, I'll sow nether socks, not, nor any thing born before his time, as this

and mend them, and foot them too. Shakspeare. must beeds be in that sociable and exposed age.

A physician, that would be mystical, preWoiton.

scribeth for the rheum to walk continually upon SO'CIABLENESS. n. s. [from sociable.] a camomile alley; meaning he should put camo1. Inclination to company and converse. mile within his socks.

Bacon. Such as would call her friendship love, and feign 2. The shoe of the ancient comick actors, To sociableness a name profane. Donne.

taken in poems for comedy, and opThe two main properties of man are contemplation, and sociableness, or love of converse.

posed to buskin or tragedy.

Then to the well-trod stage anon,
More.

If Jonson's learned sock be on, 2. Freedom of conversation ; good fel

Or sweetest Shakspeare, fancy's child, lowship

Warble his native wood-notes wild. Milton He always used courtesy and modesty, dis- Great Fletcher never treads in buskin here, liked of none; sometimes sociableness and fellow- Nor greater Jonson dares in socks appear ; ship, well liked by many.

Hayward. But gentle Simkin just reception finds SO'CIABLY. adv. (from sociable. ] Con- Amidst the monument of vanish'd minds. versibly, as a companion.

Dryden. Yet not terrible,

On two figures of actors in the villa Mathei at That I should fear; no sociably mild,

Rome, we see the fashion of the old sock and As Raphael, that I should much contide :

larva.

Addison But solemn and sublime.

Milten. SO'CKET. n. s. [souchette, French.)

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