Lie drown'd and soak'd in mercenary blood: Isa. xxxiv. 7. There deep Galesus soaks the yellow sands. Dryden. you soak your Mortimer. Wormwood, put into the brine corn in, prevents the birds eating it. 2. To draw in through the pores. Thou, whose life 's a dream of lazy pleasure: 'Tis all thy bus'ness, business how to shun; To bask thy naked body in the sun, Suppling thy stiffen'd joints with fragrant oil; Then in thy spacious garden walk a while, To suck the moisture up and soak it in. Dryden. 3. To drain; to exhaust. This seems to be a cant term, perhaps used erroneously for suck. Plants that draw much nourishment from the earth, and soak and exhaust it, hurt all things that grow by them. Bacon. A greater sparer than a saver; for though he had such means to accumulate, yet his forts, and his garrisons, and his feastings, wherein he was only sumptuous, could not but soak his exchequer. SO'AKER. n. s. [from soak.] Wotton. 1. He that macerates in any moisture. 2. A great drinker. In low language. SOAP. n. s. [rape, Sax. sapo, Lat.] A substance used in washing, made of a lixivium of vegetable alkaline ashes and any unctuous substance. Soap is a mixture of a fixed alkaline salt and oil; its virtues are cleansing, penetrating, attenuating, and resolving; and any mixture of any oily substance with salt may be called a soap. Arbuthnot on Aliment. He is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers soap. Malachi. How high a pitch his resolution soars. Shakesp. Valour soars above What the world calls misfortune and afflictions. Addison. To rise high. Who aspires must down as low As high he sour'd. Milton. Flames rise and sink by fits; at last they soar In one bright blaze, and then descend no more. Dryden. When swallows fleet soar high, and sport in air, He told us that the welkin would be clear. Gay. SOAR. n. s. [from the verb.] Towering flight. Milton. Within soar Of tow'ring eagles, to all the fowls he seems A phoenix. To SOB. v. n. [reob complaining, Sax. Perhaps it is a mere onomatopœia copied from the sound.] To heave audibly with convulsive sorrow; to sigh with convulsion. When thy warlike father, like a child, Told the sad story of my father's death, He twenty times made pause to sob and weep. Shakesp. As if her life and death lay on his saying, Some tears she shed, with sighs and sobbings mixt, As if her hopes were dead through his delaying. Fairfax. She sigh'd, she sobb'd, and furious with despair She rent her garments, and she tore her hair. Dryden. When children have not the power to obtain their desire, they will, by their clamour and sobbing, maintain their title to it. Locke on Education. I sobb'd; and with faint eyes Look'd upwards to the Ruler of the skies. Harte. This same young sober blooded boy a man ca not make him laugh. Shakery, Cieca travelled all over Peru, and is a grave id sober writer. Abbot's Description of the Worl Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded Tit. i. 6. The governour of Scotland being of great courage and sober judgment, amply performed his day both before the battle and in the field. Hayward These confusions disposed men of any sober un derstanding to wish for peace. Clarenden Among them some sober men confessed, that a his majesty's affairs then stood, he could not grant it. Clarendon, To these that sober race of men, whose lives Of these fair atheists. Milton SOB. n. s. [from the verb.] A convul- Break, heart, or choak with sobs my hated breath; Pope. A wond'rous bag with both her hands she binds: There she collects the force of female lungs, Sighs, sobs, and passions, and the war of tongues. Pope To SOB. v. a. To soak. A cant word. The tree being sobbed and wet, swells. Mortimer. drunken. SOBER. adj. [sobrius, Lat. sobre, Fr. A bubble blown with water, first made tenaci-1. Temperate, particularly in liquors; not eus by dissolving a little soap in it, after a while will appear tinged with a great variety of colours. Newton's Opticks. Soap-earth is found in great quantity on the land near the banks of the river Hermus, seven miles from Smyrna. Woodward. Soap-ashes are much commended, after the soappoilers have done with them, for cold or sour lands. Mortimer. As rain-water diminishes their salt, so the moist-2. ening of them with chamber-lee or soap-suds adds thereto. Mortimer. SO'APBOILER. n. s. [soap and boil.] One whose trade is to make soap. A soapboiler condoles with me on the duties on castle-soap. Addison's Spectator. SOAPWORT. n. s. [japonaria, Lat.] Is a species of campion. Live a sober, righteous, and godly life. Com. Pr. The vines give wine to the drunkard as well as to the sober man. Taylor's Worthy Communicant. No sober temperate person, whatsoever other sins he may be guilty of, can look with complacency upon the drunkenness and sottishness of his neighbour. South's Sermons. Not overpowered by drink. A law there is among the Grecians, whereof Pittacus is author; that he which being overcome with drink did then strike any man, should suffer punishment double as much as if he had done the same being sober. Hooker. Not mad; right in the understanding. Another, who had a great genius for tragedy, following the fury of his natural temper, made every man and woman in his plays stark raging mad; there was not a sober person to be had; all was tempestuous and blustering, Dryden. No sober man would put himself into danger, for the applause of escaping without breaking his neck. Dryden 4. Regular; calm; free from inordinate passion, 4. Temperately; moderately. Pope. Let any prince think soberly of his forces, except his militia of natives be valiant soldiers Bacon. Coolly; calmly. Whenever children are chastised, let it be done without passion, and soberly, laying on the blows slowly. Locke SO'BERNESS. n. s. [from sober.] 1. Temperance in drink. 2. Keep my body in temperance, soberness, and chastity. Common Prayer. Calmness; freedom from enthusiasm ; coolness. is Mirth makes them not mad; rest; relating to society. To love our neighbour as ourselves, is such a fundamental truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the Locke. cases in social morality. True self-love and social are the same. Pope. 2. Easy to mix in friendly gaiety; companionable. Waterland. 3. Denham. Nor sobriety sad. SO'CCAGE. n. s. [soc, Fr. a ploughshare; soccagium, barbarous Lat. In law, is a tenure of lands for certain inferiour or husbandly services to be performed to the lord of the see; all services due for land being knight's service, or soccage: so that whatever is not knight's service, This soccage soccage. is of three kinds; a soccage is of free tenure, where a man holdeth by free service of twelve pence a-year for all manner of services. Soccage of ancient tenure is of land of ancient demesne, where no writ original shall be used, but the writ secundum consuetudinem manerii. Soccage of base tenure is where those who hold it may have none other writ but the monstraverunt, and such sockmen hold not by @ certain service. Cowell. The lands are not holden at all of her majesty, or not holden in chief, but by a mean tenure in soccage, or by knight's service." Bacon. SO'CCAGER. n. s. [from soccage.] A tenant by soccage. SO'CIABLE. adj. [sociable, Fr. sociabilis, Lat.] 1. Fit to be conjoined. Another law toucheth them, as they are sociable parts united into one body; a law which bindeth them each to serve unto other's good, and all to prefer the good of the whole before whatsoever their own particular. Hooker 2. Ready to unite in a general interest. Addison's Cato. 3. Friendly; familiar; conversible. Them thus employ'd beheld With pity heav'n's high King, and to him call'd 4. Inclined to company. Milton. In children much solitude and silence I like not, nor any thing born before his time, as this must needs be in that sociable and exposed age. Wotton. SO'CIABLENESS. [from sociable ] J. Inclination to company and converse. Such as would call her friendship love, and feigu To sociableness a name profane. Donne. The two main properties of man are contemplation, and sociableness, or love of converse. More. 1. Pope. Withers, adieu! yet not with thee remove Thy martial spirit of thy social love. Consisting in union or converse with another. SOCIALNESS. n. s. [from social.] The quality of being social. SOCIETY. n. s. [societé, Fr. societas, Lat.] Union of many in one general interest. If the power of one society extend likewise to the making of laws for another society, as if the church could make laws for the state in temporals, or the state make laws binding the church relating to spirituals, then is that society entirely subject to Lesley. the other. Numbers united in one interest; community. 2. As the practice of piety and virtue is agreeable to our reason, so is it for the interest of private Tillotson. persons and publick societies. 3. Company; converse. To make society The sweeter welcome, we will keep ourself Till supper-time alone. Shakesp. Macbeth. Whilst I was big in clamour, there came a man, Who, having seen me in my worser state, Shunn'd my abhorr'd society. Shakesp. K. Lear. Solitude sometimes is best society, And short retirement urges sweet return. Milton. 4. Partnership; union on equal terms. Among unequals what society cau sort? Milton. Heaven's greatness no society can bear; Servants he made, and those thou want'st not here. Dryden. SOCK. n. s. [soccus,Lat. rocc, Sax. socke, Dut.] 1. Something put between the foot and shoe. Ere I lead this life long, I'll sow nether socks and meud them, and foot them too. Shak. Henry IV. A physician, that would be mystical, prescribeth for the rheum to walk continually upon a camomile alley; meaning he should put camomile Bacon. within his socks. 2. The shoe of the ancient comick actors, taken in poems for comedy, and opposed to buskin or tragedy. Then to the well-trod stage anon, Milton. If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild. Great Fletcher never treads in buskins here, Nor greater Jonson dares in socks appear; But gentle Simpkin just reception finds Amidst the monument of vanish'd minds. Dryden. On two figures of actors in the villa Mathei at Rome, we see the fashion of the old sock and larva. Addison. So'CKET. n. s. [souchette, Fr.] 2. Freedom of conversation; good fellow-1. Any hollow pipe; generally the holship. He always used courtesy and modesty, disliked of none; sometimes sociableness and fellowship, well liked by many. Hayward. So'CIABLY. adv. [from sociable.] Conversibly; as a companion. Yet not terrible, That I should fear; nor sociably mild, VOL. II. low of a candlestick. Two goodly beacons, set in watches stead, Therein gave light, and flam'd continually ; For they of living fire most subtilly Were made, and set in silver sockets bright. Fairy Queen. She at your flames would soon take fire, And like a candle in the socket Dissolve. Hudibras. In their own plague and fire have breath'd their last, Or dimly in their sinking sockets frown. Dryden. To nurse up the vital flame as long as the matter will last, is not always good husbandry; it is much better to cover it with an extinguisher of honour, than let it consume till it burns blue, and lies agonizing within the socket, and at length goes out in no perfume. Collier. 2. The receptacle of the eye. His eye-balls in their hollow sockets sink ; Bereft of sleep, he loaths his meat and drink; He withers at his heart, and looks as wan Dryden. As the pale spectre of a murder'd man. 3. Any hollow that receives something inserted. The sockets and supporters of flowers are figured; as in the five brethren of the rose, and sockets of Bacon. gilly flowers. Gomphosis is the connection of a tooth to its On either side the head produce an ear, Dryden. And sink a socket for the shining share. So'CKETCHISEL. n. s. A stronger sort of chisel. Carpenters, for their rougher work, use a stronger sort of chisels, and distinguish them by the name of socketchisels; their shank made with a hollow socket a-top, to receive a strong wooden Moxon. sprig made to fit into the socket. So'CLE. n. s. [With architects.] A flat square member under the bases of pedestals of statues and vases: it serves as Bailey. a foot or stand. So'CMAN or Soccager. n. s. [rocarman, Sax.] A sort of tenant that holds lands and tenements by soccage tenure, of which there are three kinds. See SocCowell. SODA'LITY. n. s. [sodalitas, Lat.] A fellowship; a fraternity. A new confraternity was instituted in Spain, of the slaves of the blessed Virgin, and this sodality established with large indulgencies. Stillingfleet. SO'DDEN. [The participle passive of seethe.] Boiled; seethed. Can sodden water, their barley broth, Decoct their cold blood to such valiant heat? Shak. Sodden business! there's a stew'd phrase indeed! Shakesp. Thou sodden-witted lord, thou hast no more brain than I have in my elbows. Shak. Troilus and Cress. Try it with milk sodden, and with cream. Bacon. Mix it with sodden wines and raisins. Dryden. To So'DER. v. a. [souder, Fr. souderen, Dut. It is generally written solder, from soldare, Ital. solidare, Lat.] To 9. Effeminate; vitiously nice. cement with some metallick matter. He that smootheth with the hammer encourageth him that smote the anvil, saying, It is ready for sodering. Isaiah, xli. SO'DER. n. s. Metallick cement. Still the difficulty returns, how these hooks were made what is it that fastens this soder, and links these first principles of bodies into a chain? Collier on Pride. SOE. n. s. [sae, Scott] A large wooden vessel with hoops, for holding water; a cowl. What great thing soever a man proposed to do in his life, he should think of achieving it by fifty. Temple. What love soever by an heir is shown, Or you could ne'er suspect my loyal love. Dryd. SO'FA. n. s. [I believe an eastern word.] A splendid seat covered with carpets. The king leaped off from the sofa on which he sat, and cried out, 'Tis my Abdallah. Guardian. SOFT. adj. [roft, Sax. saft, Dut.] 1. Not hard. Hard and soft are names we give things, only in relation to the constitutions of our own bodies; that being called hard, which will put us to pain sooner than change figure, by the pressure of any part of our bodies, and that soft, which changes the situation of its parts upon an easy touch. Locke. Some bodies are hard, and some soft: the hardness is caused by the jejuneness of the spirits, which, if in a greater degree, make them not only hard, but fragil. Bacon. Hot and cold were in one body fixt, And soft with hard, and light with heavy mixt. Dryden. 2. Not rugged; not rough. What went ye out for to see? a man clothed in soft raiment? behold, they that wear soft_raiment are in kings houses. Matthew. 3. Ductile; not unchangeable of form. Spirits can either sex assume; so soft And uncompounded is their essence pure. Milton. 4. Facile; flexible; not resolute; yielding. A few divines of so soft and servile tempers as disposed them to so sudden acting and compliance. King Charles. One king is too soft and easy; another too fiery. L'Estrange. 5. Tender; timorous. What he hath done famously, he did it to that end; though soft conscienced men can be content to say, it was for his country. Shakesp. Coriolanus. However soft within themselves they are, To you they will be valiant by despair Dryden. Pope. Curst be the verse, how well soe'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe; Give virtue scandal, innocence a fear, Or from the soft-eyed virgin steal a tear. 6. Mild; gentle; kind; not severe. Would my heart were flint, like Edward's: Or Edward's soft and pitiful, like mine. Shakesp. Our torments may become as soft as now severe. Milton. Yet soft his nature, though severe his lay; His anger moral, and his wisdom gay. 7. Meek; civil; complaisant. This sense is also mistress of an art Which to soft people sweet perfumes doth sell; Though this dear art doth little good impart, Since they smell best that do of nothing smell. Davies. An idle and soft course of life is the source of criminal pleasures. Broome. 10. Delicate; elegantly tender. Her form more soft and feminine. Less winning soft, less amiably mild. 11. Weak; simple. Milton. Many bodies that will hardly melt, will sfie as iron in the forge. Bacon's Natural Hi 2. To grow less obdurate, cruel, or o He may soften at the sight of the child; 1. Without hardness. Milton. 2. Not violently; not forcibly. The deceiver soon found this soft place of Adam's, and innocency itself did not secure him. Glanville. 12. Gentle; not loud; not rough. The Dorian mood of flutes and soft recorders. When some great and glorious monarch dies, Soft whispers first, and mournful murmurs, rise, Among the sad attendants; then the sound Soon gathers voice. Dryden Pope. Soft whispering thus to Nestor's son, His head reclin'd, young Ithacus begun. 13. Smooth; flowing; not vehement; not rapid. 3. Shake Solid bodies, if very softly percussed, give s sound; as when a man treadeth very softly pa Beco boards. Not loudly. Ahab rent his clothes, and went softly. 1 Kings, xxi. In this dark silence softly leave the town, And to the general's tent direct your steps. Dryd 4. Gently placidly. 5. Death will dismiss me, And lay me softly in my native dust, Το the forfeit of ill-manag'd trust. pay Druden She with a wreath of myrtle crowns his hear, And softly lays him on a flaw'ry bed. Dryd. Entid Mildly; tenderly. The king must die; Though pity softly plead within my soul, [from soft.] The solemn nightingale tun'd her soft lays. 14. 15. Hark! the numbers soft and clear Gently steal upon the ear. Pope. Not forcible; not violent. Sleep falls with soft slumb'rous weight. Milton. The sun shining upon the upper part of the clouds, made them appear like fine down or wool, and made the softest sweetest lights imaginable. Brown's Travels. SOFT. interj. Hold; stop; not so fast. But soft, I pray you; did king Richard then Proclaim my brother? Shakesp. Henry IV. Oh! come in, Æmilia; Soft, by and by, let me the curtains draw. Shakesp. But soft, my muse; the world is wide, And all at once was not descried. Those softners and expedient-mongers shake their heads so strongly, that we can hear thes pockets jingle. Sutt SOFTNESS. n. s. [from soft.] 1. The quality of being soft; quality contrary to hardness. Softness cometh by the greater quantity of spi rits, which ever induce yielding and cession; and by the more equal spreading of the tangible parts, which thereby are more sliding and following; a in gold. Bacon's Nat. Hi 2. Mildness; kindness. A wise man, when there is a necessity of ex pressing any evil actions, should do it by a werd that has a secondary idea of kindness or softnes or a word that carries in it rebuke and severity. Watts's Logick 3. Civility; gentleness. They turn the softness of the tongue into th hardness of the teeth. Holyday, Improve these virtues with a softness of mas ners, and a sweetness of conversation. Contrariety to energetick vehemence. Who but thyself the mind and ear can please With strength and softness, energy and ease Hurte 19. Mildness; meekness. Waller. This softness from thy finger took. SOHO. interj. A form of calling from a distant place. lo SOIL. v. a. [rilian, Sax. soelen, old Germ. souiller, Fr.] 1. To foul; to dirt; to pollute; to stain; to sully. A silly man in simple weeds forlorn, And soil'd with dust of the long dried way. Fairy Queen. Although some hereticks have abus'd this text, yet the sun is not soil'd in passage. Bacon's H. War. If I soil Myself with sin, I then but vainly toil. Sandys. I would not soil these pure ambrosial weeds With the rank vapours of this sin-worn mould. Milton. I met this crown; and I myself know well Shakesp. Henry IV. Vex'd I am with passions, Which give some soil perhaps to my behaviour. Shakesp. A lady's honour must be touch'd, Which, nice as ermines, will not bear a soil. Dryd. 2. [sol. Fr. solum, Lat.] Ground; earth considered with relation to its vegetative qualities. Judgment may be made of waters by the soil whereupon they run. Bacon's Nat. Hist. Her spots thou see'st As clouds, and clouds may rain, and rain produce Fruits in her soften'd soil. Milton's Par. Lost. The first cause of a kingdom's thriving is the fruitfulness of the soil, to produce the necessaries and conveniencies of life; not only for the inhabitants, but for exportation. 3. Land; country. Dorset, that with fearful soul Leads discontented steps in foreign soil, This fair alliance shall call home To high promotions. Swift. Shakesp. O unexpected stroke, worse than of death! Must I thus leave thee, Paradise! thus leave Thee, native soil! these happy walks and shades, Fit haunts of gods 4. Dung; compost. Milton. The haven has been stopped up by the great heaps of dirt that the sea has thrown into it; for all the soil on that side of Ravenna has been left there insensibly by the sea. Addison. Improve land by dung, and other sort of soils. Mortimer. If, till the expiration of your month, You will return and sojourn with my sister, Dismissing half your train, come then to me. Shak. Th' advantage of his absence took the king, And in the mean time sojourned at my father's. Shak. How comes it he is to sojourn with you? how creeps acquaintance? Shakesp. Cymbeline. Here dwells he; though he sojourn every where In progress, yet his standing house is here. Donne. The sojourning of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years. Exodus, xii. 40. The soldiers first assembled at Newcastle, and there sojourned three days. Hayward. To sojourn in that land He comes invited. Milton's Par. Lost. He who sojourns in a foreign country, refers what he sees abroad to the state of things at home. Atterb. SO'JOURN. n. s. [sejour, Fr. from the verb.] A temporary residence; a casual and no settled habitation. This word was anciently accented on the last syllabie: Milton accents it indifferently. The princes, France and Burgundy, Long in our court have made their am'rous sojourn. Shakesp. Thee I revisit now, Escap'd the Stygian pool, though long detain'd In that obscure sojourn. Milt. Par. Lost. Scarce view'd the Galilean towns, And once a-year Jerusalem, few days Short sojourn. Milt. Par. Regained. SO'JOURNER. n. s. [from sojourn.] temporary dweller. A We are strangers and sojourners, as were all our fathers our days on earth are as a shadow. 1 Chron. xxix. 16. Waves o'erthrew Busiris, and his Memphian chivalry, While with perfidious hatred they pursued The sojourners of Goshen. Milton's Paradise Lost. Not for a night, or quick revolving year; Welcome an owner, not a sojourner. Dryden. To SO'LACE. v. a. [solacier, old Fr. solazzare, Ital. solatium, Lat.] To comfort; to cheer; to amuse. We will with some strange pastime solace them. The birds with song Solac'd the woods. To SO'LACE. v. n. To take comfort; to be recreated. The neutral sense is obsolete. One poor and loving child, ment. Sometimes she sung as loud as lark in air, Sometimes she laugh'd, that nigh her breath was gone. Spenser's Fairy Queen. If we have that which is meet and right, although they be glad, we are not to envy them this their solace: we do not think it a duty of ours to be in every such thing their tormentors. Hooker. Give me leave to go; Sorrow would solace, and my age would ease. Shakesp. Henry VI. Great joy he promis'd to his thoughts, and new Solace in her return. Miston's Paradise Lost. If I would delight my private hours Milton's Paradise Regained. They denominate some herbs solar, and some lunar. Bacon. Scripture hath been punctual in other respects, concerning solary miracles. Brown's Vulg. Errours. Born under or in the predominant influence of the sun. The cock was pleas'd to hear him speak so fair, And proud beside, as solar people are. Dryden. 4. Measured by the sun. The rule to find the moon's age, on any day of any solar month, cannot shew precisely an exact account of the moon, because of the inequality of the motions of the sun and moon, and the number of days of the solar months. Holder on Time. SOLD. The preterite and participle passive of sell. SOLD. n. s. [souldée, old Fr. Trevoux.] Military pay; warlike entertainment. But were your will her sold to entertain, And number'd be 'mongst knights of maidenhead, Great guerdon, well I wot, should you remain, And in her favour high be reckon'd. Fairy Queen. SO'LDAN. n. s. [for sultan.] The emperor of the Turks. They at the soldan's chair defied the best. Milton. S'OLDANEL. n. s. [soldanella, Lat.] A Miller plant. To SOLDER. v. a. [souder, Fr. soldare, Ital. solidare, Lat.] See SODER. 1. To unite or fasten with any kind of metallick cement. 2. A concave sphere of gold, filled with water, and soldered up, has, upon pressing the sphere with great force, let the water squeeze through it, and stand all over its outside in multitudes of small drops like dew, without bursting or cracking the body of the gold. Newton's Opticks. To mend; to unite any thing broken. It booteth them not thus to solder up a broken cause, whereof their first and last discourses will fall asunder. Hooker Wars 'twixt you twain would be As if the world should cleave, and that slain men Should solder up the rift Shakesp. Antony and Cleov. Thou visible god, That soli'rest close impossibilities, And mak'st them kiss! Shakesp. Timon. Learn'd he was in med'c'nal lore; For by his side a pouch he wore Replete with strange hermetick powder, That wounds nine miles point-blank would solder. Hudibras. The naked cynick's jar ne'er flames; if broken, Tis quickly solder'd, or a nes bespoken. Dryd. jun. Juvenal. At the restoration the presbyterians, and other sects, did all unite and solder up their several schemes, to join against the church. Swift. SO'LDER. n. s. [from the verb.] Metallick cement; a metallick body that will melt with less heat than the body to be soldered. Goldsmiths say, the coarsest stuff Swift. One SO'LDIER. n. s. [soldat, Fr. from solidarius, low Lat. of solidus a piece of money, the pay of a soldier; souldée, Fr.] 1. A fighting man; a warriour. Origi nally one who served for pay. Your sister is the better soldier. Shak. K. Lear. An older and a better soldier none. Shak. Macbeth. Full of strange oaths, and bearded like a pard, Jealous in honour, suaden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Ev'n in the cannon's mouth. Shakesp. Chapman. A hateful service, that dissolv'd the knees Of many a soldier. I have not yet forgot I am a king: If I have wrong'd thee, charge me face to face; I have not yet forgot I am a soldier. Dryden's Don Sebastian. 2. It is generally used of the common men, as distinct from the commanders. It were meet that any one, before he came to be a captain, should have been a soldier. Spens, on Ire. SO'LDIERLIKE. adj. [soldier and like.] SO'LDIERLY. S Martial; warlike; military; becoming a soldier. Although at the first they had fought with beastly fury rather than any soldierly discipline, practice had now made them comparable to the best Sidney. I will maintain the word with my sword to be a soldierlike word, and a word of good command. Shakesp. Henry IV. They, according to a soldierly custom, in cases of extremity, by interchange of a kiss by every of them upon the swords of others, sealed a resolution to maintain the place. Hayward. Enemies as well as friends confessed, that it was as soldierly an action as had been performed on either side. Clarendon. SO'LDIERSHIP. n. s. [from soldier.] Military character; martial qualities; behaviour becoming a soldier; martial skill. Thy father and myself in friendship First tried our soldiership: he did look far luto the service of the time, and was Discipled of the bravest. Shakesp. All's well that ends well. The absolute soldiership you have by land, SO'LDIERY. n. s. [from soldier.] Shakesp. 1. Body of military men; soldiers collectively. Offering him, if he would exercise his courage in soldiery, he would commit some charge unto him under his lieutenant Philanax. Sidney. SOLE. n. s. [solum, Lat.] 1. The bottom of the foot. I will only be bold with Benedict for his company; for from the crown of his head to the sole of his foot he is all mirth. Shakesp. Much ado about Nothing. Tickling is most in the soles of the feet: the cause is, the rareness of being touched there. Bacon's Natural History. The soles of the feet have great affinity with the head and the mouth of the stomach; as going wet shod, to those that use it not, affecteth both. Bacon's Natural History. Such resting found the sole of unblest feet. Milt. In the make of the camel's foot, the sole is flat and broad, being very fleshy, and covered only with a thick, soft, and somewhat callous skin, fit to travel in sandy places. Ray. 2. The foot. 3. Left solely heir to all his lands. Shakesp. Taming of the Shores This night's great business Shall to all our nights and days to come Give solely sovereign sway and masterdom, Shak That the intemperate heat of the clime s occasions this complexion, experience admits m Brown's Vulgar Errsen This truth is pointed chi fly, if not solely, upa sinners of the first rate, who have cast off all repert for piety. Atterbur They all chose rather to rest the cause salci logical disputation, than upon the testimonies of the ancients. Waterland SOLEMN. adj. [solemnel, Fr. solemnis, Lat.] 1. Anniversary; observed once a year with religious ceremonies. The worship of this image was advanced, and a solemn supplication observed every year. Stilling), Religiously grave; awful. 2. 3. His holy rites and solemn feasts profan'd. Milan. Formal; ritual; religiously regular. The necessary business of a man's calling, with some, will not afford much time for set and soins prayer. Duty of Man 4. Striking with seriousness; sober; se rious. To redeem thy woeful parent's head From tyrant's rage and ever-dying dread, Hast wander'd through the world now long a day, Yet ceasest not thy weary soles to lead. Fairy Q. [Solea, Lat.] The bottom of the shoe. Nay, gentle Romeo, we must have you dance. -Not I, believe me: you have dancing shoes, With nimble soles. Shakesp. On fortune's cap we are not the very button. -Nor the soles of her shoes. Shakesp. Hamlet. The caliga was a military shoe, with a very thick sole, tied above the instep with leather thongs. Arbuthnot on Coins. 4. The part of any thing that touches the ground. The strike-block is a plane shorter than the 5. jointer, having its sole inade exactly flat and straight, and is used for the shooting of a short joint. Moxon's Mechanical Exercises. Elm is proper for mills, soles of wheels, and pipes. Mortimer. 5. A kind of sea-fish. Of flat fish, rays, thornbacks, soles, and flowks. Some others are such as a man cannot make his wife, though he himself be sole and unmarried. Ayliffe. SO'LECISM n. s. [cios.] Unfitness [σολοικισμός.] of one word to another; impropriety in language. A barbarism may be in one. word, a solecism must be of more. There is scarce a solecism in writing which the best author is not guilty of, if we be at liberty to-5. read bin in the words of some manuscript. Addis. So'LELY. adv. [from sole.] Singly; only. You knew my father well, and in him me, The lady Constance, Some speedy messenger bid repair To our solemnity. Shakesp. King Joks. The moon, like to a silver bow Shakesp There may be greater danger in using such com positions in churches, at arraignments, plays, and solemnities. Bacos What fun'ral pomp shall floating Tiber see, When rising from his bed he views the sad solemnity! Dryden. Though the forms and solemnities of the last judgment may bear some resemblance to those we are acquainted with here, yet the rule of proceeding shall be very different. Atterbury. Manner of acting awfully serious. With much more skilful cruelty, and horrible solemnity, he caused each thing to be prepared for his triumph of tyranny. Sidney. Gravity; steady seriousness. The stateliness and gravity of the Spaniards shews itself in the solemnity of their language. Addison's Spectator |