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Genesis.

Jacob sod pottage. I. Any hollow pipe ; generally the hollow of a candlestick.

SOD A’LITY. n. s. [sodalitas, Latin.) A Two goodly beacons, set in watches stead, fellowship ; a fraternity. : Therein gave light, and filam'd continually ; A new confraternity was instituted in Spain, For they of living fire most subtilly

of the slaves of the Blessed Virgin, and this soWere made, and set in silver sockets bright. dality established with large indulgencies. Fuiry Queen.

Stilling fleet. She at your flames would soon take fire, So'dden. (part. pass. of seethe.) Boiled ; And like a candle in the socket

seethed. Dissolve.

Hudibras.

Can sodden water, their barley broth,
The nightly virgin sees

Decoct their cold blood to such valiant heat ? When sparkling lamps their sputt'ring light ad

Shakspeare. vance,

Sodden business! there's a stew'd phrase inAnd in the sockets oily bubbles dance. Dryden.

deed!

Sbakspeare. The stars amaz'd ran backward from the sight, Thou sodden-witted lord, thou hast no more And, shrunk within their sockets, lost their light.

brain than I have in my elbows. Shakspeare. Dryden.

Try it with milk sodden, and with cream.
Two dire comets

Bacon. In their own plague and fire have breath'd their

Mix it with sodden wines and raisins. Dryders. last,

To SO'der, v.a. [souder, French ; soudeOr dimly in their sinking sockets frown. Dryd. To nurse up the vital flame as long as the

Dutch. ren,

It is generally written matter will last, is not always good husbandry;

solder, from soldare, Italian ; solidare, it is much better to cover it with an excin- Latin.] To cement with some metallick guisher of honour, than let it consume till it burns matter. blue, and lies agonizing within the socket, and at He that smootheth with the hammer encoulength goes out in no perfume. Collier.

r2geth him that smote the anvil, saying, It is 2. The receptacle of the eye.

ready for sodering:

Isaiah. His eye-balls in their hollow sockets sink; SO'DER. n. s. Metallick cement. Berest of sleep, he loaths his meat and drink;

Still the difficulty returns, how these hooks He withers at his heart, and looks as wan

were made : what is it that fastens this sodir, As the pale spectre of a murder'd man. Dryden. and links these first principles of bodies into a 3. Any hollow that receives something chain?

Collier. inserted.

Soe. n. s. [sae, Scottish.] A large wooden The sockets and supporters of flowers are fi- vessel with hoops, for holding water; a gured; as in the five brethren of the rose, and

cowl. sockets of gillyflowers.

Bacon. Gomphosis is the connection of a tooth to its

A pump grown dry will yield no water ; but socket.

Wiseman,
pouring a little into it first, for one bason-full

More.

jou may fetch up as many sor-fulls. As the weight leans wholly upon the axis, the grating and rubbing of these axes against the SOE'VER. adv. (so and ever.] A word sockets wherein they are placed, will cause some properly joined with a pronoun or ad. inaptitude and resistency to that rotation of the verb, as whosoever, whatsoever, howsocylinder which would otherwise ensue. Wilkins. On either side the head produce an ear,

What great thing soever a man proposed to And sink a sockci for the shining share. Dryden. do in his life, he should think of achieving it by SO'CKETCHISEL, n. s. A stronger sort fifty.

Torpie. of chisel.

What love soever by an heir is shown, Carpenters, for their rougher work, use a Or you could ne'er suspect my loyal love. Dryd. stronger sort of chisels, and distinguish them by So'ra. 1. s. [I believe an eastern word.) the name of sceketchisels ; their shank made with A splendid seat covered with carpets. a hollow socket a-top, to receive a strong wooden The king leaped off from the sofa on which sprig made to fit into the socket. Moxon.

he sat, and cried out, 'T is my Abdallah! SO'CLE. 1. s. [with architects.] A fiat

Guardian square member under the bases of pe- Soft. adj. [roft, Saxon; safi, Dutch.] destals of statues and vases: it serves as 1. Not hard. a foot or stand.

Bailey. Hard and soft are names we give things, only SO'CMAN or Soccager. n. s. (rocasman,

in relation to the constitutions of our own boSaxon.] A sort of tenant that holds

dies; that being called hard, which will put us

to pain sooner than change figure, by the preslands and tenements by soccage tenure, sure of any part of our bodies; and that segt, of which there are three kinds. See which changes the situation of its parts upon an SOCCAGE.

Cowell.
easy touch.

Locke. SO'COME. n. s. [In the old law, and in Some bodies are hard, and some soft: the Scotland.] A custom of tenants obliged

hardness is caused by the jejuneness of the spirits,

which, if in a greater degree, make not only to grind corn at their lord's mill.

hard, but fragil.

Bacon Bailey. Hot and cold were in one body fixt, SOD. n. s. [sood, Dutch.] A turf; a And soft with hard, and light with heavy mixt. clod.

Dryden. The sexton shall green sods on thee bestow; 2. Not rugged ; not rough. Alas! the sexton is thy banker now. Swift. What went ye out for to see? a man clothed in Here fame shall dress a sweeter sod

soft raiment ? behold, they that wear soft raiThan fancy's feet have ever trod. Collins. ment are in kings houses.

Maribe. SOD. The preterit of seethe.

3. Ductile; not unchangeable of form. Never caldron sod

Spirits can either sex assume ; so soft With so much fervour, ted with all the store And uncompounded is their essence pure. That could enrage it. Chapman,

M:iten.

ever.

Pope.

vere.

4. Facile ; fexible ; not resolute; yield. wool, and made the softest sweetest lights imaing.

ginable.

Brown, A few divines of so soft and servile tempers Soft. interj. Hold; stop; not so fast. as disposed them to so sudden acting and com- But soft, I pray you; did king Richard then pliance.

King Charles.
Proclaim my brother?

Shakspeare One king is too soft and easy; another too

Oh! come in, Emilia; fiery.

L'Estrange. Soft, by and by, let me the curtains draw, Sbaks. s. Tender ; timorous.

But soft, my muse; the world is wide, What he hath done famously, he did it to that And all at once was not descry'd. Suckling. end; though soft conscienced men can be content to say, it was for his country. Sbakspeare.

To So'ften, v.a. [from soft.] However soft within themselves they are,

1. To make soft ; to make less bard. To you they will be valiant by despair. Dryd.

Bodies, into which the water will enter, long Curst be the verse, how weil soe'er ic flow,

seething will rather soften than indurate. Bacon. That tends to make one worthy man my foe;

Their anow's point they soften in the fame, Give virtue scandal, innocence a fear,

And sounding hammers break its barbed frame. O: from the sofi-ey'd virgin steal a fear.

Gag. 6. Mild; gentle; kind ; not severe.

2. To intenerate ; to make less fierce or

: Would my heart were fiint, like Edward's;

obstinate ; to mo!lify. Or Edward's soft and pitiful, like mine. Shués. I will sofien stony hearts.

Milton. Our torments may become as soft as now se

Our fiiends sec not our faults, or conceal

Milton. them, or soften them by their representation. Yet soft his nature, though severe his lay;

Addison. His anger moral, and his wisdom gay. Pope.

I would correct the harsh expressions of ope 7. Meek ; civil; complaisant.

party, by softening and reconciling methods. Thou art their soldier, and, being bred in

Watts, broils,

3. To make easy ; to compose; to make Hast not the soft way, which thou dost confess placid ; to mitigate; to palliate ; to alleWere fit for thee to use, as they to claim,

viate. In asking their good loves. Sbakspeare. Call round her tomb each object of desire; 8. Placid ; still ; easy.

Bid her be all that cheers or softens life, On her soft axle while she paces even,

The tender sister, daughter, friend, and wife. She bears thee soft with the smooth air along.

Pupe. Milton. Musick the fiercest griefs can charm; There, soft extended to the murmuring sound Musick can soften pain to ease, Of the high porch, Ulysses sleeps profound. And make despair and madness please.

Pope. Pope. 4. To make less harsh, less vehement, less 9. Effemipate; vitiously nice.

violent. This sense is also mistress of an art

He bore his great commission in his look, Which to soft people sweet perfumes doth sell;

But sweetly temper'd awe, and softon'd all he Though this dcar art dotli little good impart,

spoke.

Dryden. Since they smell best, that do of nothing smell.

Davies.

s. To make less glaring. An idle and soft course of life is the source of 6. To make tender; to enervate. criminal pleasures.

Broome. To So'ften. V. n. 10. Delicate ; elegantly tender.

1. To grow less hard. Her form more soft and feminine. Milton. Many bodies, that will hardly melt, will soften; Less winning soft, less ainiably mild. Milton. as iron in the forge.

Bacon. II. Weak ; simple.

2. To grow less obdurate, cruel, or obstiThe deceiver soon found this soft place of nate. Adam's, and innocency itself did not secure him. He may soften at the sight of the child;

Glanville. The silence often of pure innocence 12. Gentle ; not loud ; not rough.

Persuades, when speaking fails. Sbakspeare. Her voice was ever soft,

So'rtly. adv. [from soft.] Gentle, and low; an excellent thing in women. I. Without hardness.

Sbakspeare. The Dorian mood of flutes and soft recorders.

2. Not violently ; not forcibly.

Solid bodies, if very softly percussed, give no

Milton. When some great and gracious monarch dies,

sound; as when a man treadeth very softly upon boards.

Bacon. Soft whispers first, and mournful murmurs, rise Among the sad arter.dants; then the sound

3. Not loudly. Soon gathers voice.

Dryden.

Ahab rent his clothes, and went softly, 1 Kir. Soft whispering thus to Nestor's son,

In this dark silence softly leave the town, His head reclin'd, young Ithacus begun. Pope.

And to the general's tent direct your steps. Dryd. 13. Smooth; flowing ; not vehcment; 4. Gently; placidly.

Death will dismiss me,
not rapid.
The solemn nightingale tun'd her soft lays.

And lay me softly in my native dust,
Milton.

To pay the forfeit of ill-manag’d_truši. Dryden.

She with a wreath of myrtle crowns his head, Soft were my numbers; who could take offence,

And softly lays him on a tiow'ry bed. Dryden. When smooth description held the place of 5. Mildly ; tenderly. sense?

Poje.

The king must die; Hark! the numbers soft and clear

Though pity softly plead within my soul, Gently steal upon the ear,

Yet he must die, that I may make you great. 14. Not forcible; not violent.

Dryden. Sleep falls with soft slumb'rous weight, Mit. So'FTNER. n. s. [from soft.] 15. Mid; not glaring,

1. That which makes soft. The sun shining upon the upper part of the

2. One who palliates. clouds, mace them appear like fine duwn or

Those sofistiers and expedient-mongers shake

Pope.

court.

their heads so strongly, that we can hear their Licks the soild earth, pockets jingle.

Swift. While reeking with a mangled Ombit's blood. SO'FTNESS. n. s. [from soft.]

Tate.

If the eye-glass be tincted faintly with the 1. The quality of being soft; quality con

smoke of a lamp or torch, to obscure the light trary to hardness.

of the star, the fainter light in the circumfeSoftress cometh by the greater quantity of rence of the star ceases to be visible, and the spirits, which ever induce yielding and cession; star, if the glass be sufficiently soiled with smoke, and by the more equal spreading of the tangible

appears something more like a mathematical parts, which thereby are more sliding and fol

point.

Newton. lowing; as in gold.

Bacon.

An absent hero's bed they sought to soil, 2. Mildness; kindness.

An absent hero's wealth they made their spoil. A wise man, when there is a necessity of ex

Pope. pressing any evil actions, should do it by a word 2. To dụng ; to manure. that has a secondary idea of kindness or softness; Men now present, just as they soil their or a word that carries in it rebuke and severity.

ground, not that they love the dirt, but that they Watts. expect a crop.

South, 3. Civility ; gentleness.

3. To soil a horse ; to purge him by givThey turn the softness of the tongue into the

ing him grass in the spring. It is in hardness of the teeth.

Holyday. Improve these virtues, with a softness of man

Shakspeare to glut. (saouller, French.) ners, and a sweetness of conversation. Dryden. Soil, n. s. [from the verb.)

The soiled horse.

Sbakspearea 4. Effeminacy; vitious delicacy.

So long as idleness is quite shut out from our 1. Dirt ; spot; pollution ; foulness. lives, all the sins of wantonness, softness, and

By indirect ways effeminacy, are prevented; and there is but I met this crown; and I myself know well little room for temptation.

Taylor.

How troublesome it sat upon my head : He was not delighted with the softnesses of the

To thee it shall descend with better quiet; Clarendon.

For all the soil of the achicvement goes

With me into the earth. 5. Timorousness ; pusillanimity.

Sbakspeare. This virtue could not proceed out of fear or

That would be a great soil in the new gloss of softness; for he was valiant and active. Bacon.

your marriage.

Sbakspeare,

Vexed I am with passions, Saving a man's self, or suffering, if with reason, is virtue: if without it, is sofiness or obsti

Which give some soil perhaps to my behaviour. nary: Grow.

Sbakspeare.

A lady's honour must be touch'd, 6. Quality contrary to harshness.

Which, nice as ermines, will not bear a soil. Dryd. Fofiness of sounds is distinct from the exility of sounds.

Bacon.

2. [sol, French ; solum, Latin.] Ground; 7. Facility; gentleness; candour; easi

earth, considered with relation to its ness to be affected.

vegetative qualities. Such was the ancient simplicity and softness of

Judgment may be made of waters by the soil spirit which sometimes prevailed in the world,

whereupon they run.

Bacon. that they, whose words were even as oracles

Her spots thou see'st amongst men, seemed evermore loth to give

As clouds, and clouds may rain, and rain pro

duce
sentence against any thing publickly received in
the church of God.

Hooker,
Fruits in her soften'd soil.

Milton.

The first cause of a kingdom's thriving is the 8. Contrariety to energetick vehemence.

fruitfulness of the soil, to produce the necessaWho but thyself the mind and ear can please

ries and conveniencies of life; not only for the With strength and softness, energy and ease ? inhabitants, but for exportation. Swift.

Harte. 9. Mildness; meekness.

3. Land; country.

Dorset, that with fearful soul
For contemplation he and valour formd,

Leads discontented steps in foreign soil,
For softness she and sweet attractive grace. Milt.
Her stubborn look

This fair alliance shall call home
To high promotions.

Sbakspeare. This softness from thy finger took. Waller.

O unexpected stroke, worse than of death! Scho. interj. A form of calling from a Must I thus leave thee, Paradise! thus leave distant place.

Thee, native soil! these happy walks and shades,
Fit haunts of gods.

Milton. To Soil. v. a. [rilian, Saxon ; soelen, old

4. Dung; compost. German; souiller, French.]

The haven has been stopped up by the great 1. To foul; to dirt; to pollute; to stain; heaps of dirt that the sea has thrown into it; for to sully:

all the soil on that side of Ravenna has been left A silly man in simple weeds forlorn,

there insensibly by the sca.

Addison. And soild with dust of the long dried way.

Improve land by dung, and other sort of soils. Fairy Queen.

Mortimer. Although some hereticks have abused this Soi'LINESS, n. s. [from soil.] Stain; foultext, yet the sun is not solied in passage. Bacon. If I soil

Make proof of the incorporation of silver and Myself with sin, I then but vainly toil. Sandys.

tin, whether it yield no soiliness more than silver. I would not soil these pure ambrosial weeds

Bacoa. With the rank vapours of this sin-worn mould.

SOI'LURE. n. s. [from soil.] Stain; polluMilton.

tion. Bad fruit of knowledge, if this be to know, Which leaves us naked thus, of honour void,

He merits well to have her, Of innocence, of faith, of purity,

Not making any scruple of her soilure. Sbaksp. Our wonted ornaments now soild and stain'd. To SoʻJOURN. v. n. (sejourner, Frenci; Milton. seggiornare, Italian.]

To dwell any One, who cou'd n't for a taste o' th’ flesh where for a time; to live as not at

come in,

ness.

Milton.

home ; to inhabit as not in a settled ha

Give me leave to go; bitation. Almost out of use.

Sorrow would solace, and my age would ease. If, eill the expiration of your month,

Shakspeare. You will return, and sojourn with my sister,

Great joy he promis'd to his thoughts,and new

Solace in her return. Dismissing half your train, come then to me,

Milton. Shakspeare.

If I would delight my private hours Th' advantage of his absence took the king,

With musick or with poem, where so soon And in the mean time sojourn'd at my father's.

As in our native language can I find
Sbakspeare.
That solace?

Miltor How comes it he is to sojourn with you? how

Though sight be lost, creeps acquaintance?

Sbakspeare.

Life yet hath many solaces, enjoyd Heredwells he; though he sojourn every where

Where other senses want not their delights,

At home in leisure and domestick ease, in progress, yet his standing house is here.

Donne.

Exempt from many a care and chance, to which The sojourning of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt,

Eye-sight exposes daily men abroad. was four hundred and thirty years. Exodus.

Through waters and through flames I'll go, The soldiers first assembled at Newcastle, and

Suffrer and solace of thy woe.

Prior. there sojourned three days. Hayward. SOLA'NDER. 1. s. (soulandres, French.) To sojourn in that land

A disease in horses.

Dict. He comes invited.

Milton. So'LAR. | adj. (solaire, French ; solaris, He who sojourns in a foreign country, refers SO'LARY.) Latin.] what he sees abroad to the state of things at home.

Atterbury.

1. Being of the sun. SO'JOURN. n. so [sejour, French ; from

The corpuscles that make up the beams of

light be solary efluviums, or minute particles of the verb.) A temporary residence ; a some ethereal substance, thrusting on one ancasual and no settled habitation. This other from the lucid body.

Boyle. word was anciently accented on the last Instead of golden fruits, syllable: Milton accents it indifferently.

By genial show'rs and solar heat supply'd, The princes, France and Burgundy,

Unsufferable winter had defac'd Long in our court have made their am'rous

Earth's blooming charms, and made a barren sojourn.

Sbakspeare.
waste.

Blackmorka
Thee I revisit now,

2. Belonging to the sun. Escap'd the Stygian pool, though long detain'd They denominate some herbs solar, and some In that obscure sojourn. Milton. lunar.

Bacon. Scarce view'd the Galilean towns,

Scripture hath been punctual in other records, And once a-year Jerusalem, few days

concerning solury miracles.

Brown. Short sojourn.

Milton, 3. Born under or in the predominant inSo'JOURNER. N. s. [from sojourn.] A Auence of the sun. temporary dweller.

The cock was pleas'd to hear him speak so We are strangers and sejourners, as were all

fair, our fathers: our days on earth are as a shadow. And proud beside, as solar people are. Drydero

1 Chronicles. 4. Measured by the sun. Waves o'erthrew

The rule to find the moon's age, on any day Busiris, and his Memphian chivalry,

of any solar month, cannot shew precisely an While with perfidious hatred they pursu'd exact account of the moon, because of the ineThe sojourners of Goshen.

Milton. quality of the motions of the sun and moon, and Not for a night, or quick revolving year; the number of days of the solar months. Holder. Welcome an owner, not a sojourner. Dryden. SOLD. The pret. and part. pass. of sell. To SO'LACE. v. a. [solacier, old French; SOLD. n. s. [souldée, old Fr. Trevoux.]

solazzare, Italian; solatium, Latin.] To Military pay ; warlike entertainment. comfort ; to cheer; to amuse.

But were your will her sold to entertain, We will with some strange pastime solace And number'd be 'mongst knights of maidenthem.

Sbakspears.

head, The birds with song

Great guerdon, well I wot, should you reSelai'd the woods.

Milton.

main, To SO'LACE. v. n. To take comfort ; to And in her favour high be reckoned. Fairy Ques, be recreated. Obsolete.

So'ldan. n. s. [for sultan.] The emOne poor and loving child,

perour of the Turks. But one thing to rejoice and solace in,

They at the soldan's chair defied the best. And cruel death hath catch'd it from my sight.

Milton, Sbakspeari. SO'LDANEL. n. s. (soldanella, Latin.) A Were they to be rul'd, and not to rule,

plant.

Miller This sickly land might solace as before. Sbaksp. SO'LACE. n. s. [solatium, Latin. ] Comfort; To SO’LDER. v. a. (soudre, Fr. soldare, pleasure ; alleviation ; that which gives

Italian ; solidare, Latin.] See Soder. comfort or pleasure ; recreation; amuse- 1. To unite or fasten with any kind of ment.

metallick cement. Therein sat a lady fresh and fair,

A concave sphere of gold, filled with water, Making sweet solace to herself alone;

and soldered up, has, upon pressing the sphere Sometimes she sung as loud as lark in air, with great force, let the water squeeze through Sometimes she laugh'd, that nigh her breath it, and stand all over its outside in multitudes of was gone.

Spenser.

small drops like dew, without bursting or crackIf we have that which is meet and right, al

ing the body of the gold.

Newton. though they be glad, we are not to envy them 2. To mend; to unite any thing broken. this their solace; we do not think it a duty of It booteth them not thus to solder up a broken ours to be in every such thing their tormentors. cause, whereof their first and last discourses will Hooker. fall asunder.

Hooker.

men

Sidney.

Wars 'twixryou twain would be

SO'LDIERY. n. s. [from soldier.] As if the world should cleave, and that slain

1. Body of military men ; soldiers col. Should solder up the rift. Sbakspeare.

lectively. Thou visible god,

The Memphian soldiery, That sold"rest close impossibilities,

That swell’d the Erythrean wave, when wallid, And mak'st them kiss!

Shakspeare,

The unfroze waters marvellously stood. Philips. Learn d he was in med'c'nal lore;

I charge not the soldiery with ignorance and For by his side a pouch he wore

contempt of learning, without allowing excep

tions. Replete with strange hermetick powder,

Swift. That wounds nine miles point-blank would solder, 2. Soldiership; military service.

Hudibras.

Offering him, if he would exercise his courage The naked cynick’s jar ne'er flames; if broken,

in soldiery, he would commit some charge unto T'is quickly solder'd, or a new bespoken. Dryd.

him under his lieutenant Philanax. At the Restoration the presbyterians, and SOLE.», s. (solum, Latin.] other sects, did all unite and solder up their se- 1. The bottom of the foot. veral schemeș, to join against the church. Swift.

I will only be bold with Benedict for his comSO'LDER.X. s. [from the verb.] Metallick

pany; for from the crown of his head to the sole cement. A metallick body that will of his foot he is all mirth.

Sbakspeare. melt with less heat than the body to be

Tickling is most in the soles of the feet: the soldered.

cause is, the rareness of being touched there.

Bacon, Goldsmiths say, the coarsest stuff Will serve for selder well enough. Strift.

The soles of the feet have great affinity with

the head and the mouth of the stomach; as going SO'LDERER. N. s. [from solder.] One that

wetshod, to those that use it not, affecteth both. solders or mends.

Васол, SOʻLDIER. n. s. (soldat, Fr. from solida- Such resting found the sole of unblest feer. rius, low Lat. of solidus, a piece of mo

Milton,

In the make of the camel's foot, the sole is flat ney, the pay of a soldier; souldée, Fr.] 1. A fighting man; a warriour. Originally

and broad, being very fleshy, and covered only

with a thick, soft, and somewhat callous skin, fit one who served for pay.

to travel in sandy places.

Raya Your sister is the better soldier. Sbakspeare.

2. The foot. Good Sivard,

To redeem thy woful parent's head
An older and a better soldier none. Shakspeare.

From tyrant's rage and ever-dying dread,
A soldier

Hast wander'd through the world now long a Full of strange oaths and bearded like a pard,

day, Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,

Yet ceasest not thy weary sales to lead. F.Queen, Secking the bubble reputation Evin in the cannon's mouth. Sbakspeare. 3. (solea, Lat.] The bottom of the shoe.

A hateful service, that dissolv'd the knees Nay, gentle Romeo, we must have you dance. Of many a soldier.

Cbapman.

Not I, believe me: you have dancing shoes, I have not yet forgot I am a king:

With nimble soles.

Shakspeare, If I have wrongd thee, charge me face to face; On fortune's cap we are not the very button. I have not yet forgot I am a soldier. Dryden.

-Nor the soles of her shoes.

Sbakspeare. 2. It is generally used of the common men,

The caliga was a military shoe, with a very as distinct from the commanders.

thick sole, tied above the inştep with leather It were meet that any one, before he came to

thongs.

Arbuthnot. be a captain, should have been a soldier. Spenser. 4. The part of any thing that touches the SOʻLDIERLIKE. adj. (soldier and like.] ground. SO'LDIERLY. S Martial; warlike; mi.

The strike-block is a plane shorter than the

jointer, having its sole made exactly flat and litary; becoming a soldier.

straight, and is for the shooting of a short Although at the first they had fought with

joint.

Moxon. beastly fury rather than any soldierly discipline,

Elm is proper for mills, soles of wheels, and practice had now made them comparable to the

pipes.

Mortimer. besi.

Sidney. I will maintain the word with my sword to be 5. A kind of sea fish. a soldierlike word, and a word of good command.

Of flat fish, rays, thornbacks, soles, and flowks. Sbakspeare.

Caretu. They, according to a soldierly custom, in cases

TO SOL£. v. a. [from the noun.] To turof extremity, by interchange of a kiss by every

nish with soles : as, to sole a pair of of them upon the swords of others, sealed a re- shoes. solution to maintain the place. Hayrard. His feet were soled with a treble tuft of a clase Enemies as well as friends confessed, that it short tawncy down.

Grow, was as soldierly an action as had been performed SOLE. adj. [sol, old Fr. solus, Lat.] on either side.

.

1. Single ; only. SO'LDIERSHIP. n. s. [from soldier. ] Mili

Take not upon thee to be judge alone: there tary character; martial qualities ; be

is no sole judge but only one : say not to others, haviour becoming a soldier ; martial Receive my sentence, when their authority skill.

above thine,

Hooker. Thy father and myself in friendship

Orpheus everywhere expressed the infinite and First tried our soldiership: he did look far sole power of one God, though he used the name Into the service of the time, and was

of Jupiter.

Ruleigh. Discipled of the bravest.

Sbakspeare. To me shall be the glory sole among
By sea you throw away

'Th' infernal pow'rs.

Milton. The absolute soldiership you have by land, A rattling tempest through the branches went, Distract your army, which doth most consist That stripp'd them bare, and one sole way they Of war-mark'd foutmen.

Sbakspeare.

rent.

Dryden

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