Soapsuds
(Soap"suds`) n. pl. Suds made with soap.
Soapwort
(Soap"wort`) n. (Bot.) A common plant (Saponaria officinalis) of the Pink family; — so called
because its bruised leaves, when agitated in water, produce a lather like that from soap. Called also
Bouncing Bet.
Soapy
(Soap"y) a. [Compar. Soapier ; superl. Soapiest.]
1. Resembling soap; having the qualities of, or feeling like, soap; soft and smooth.
2. Smeared with soap; covered with soap.
Soar
(Soar) v. i. [imp. & p. p. Soared (#); p. pr. & vb. n. Soaring.] [F. s'essorer to soar, essorer to
dry fr. L. ex out + aura the air, a breeze; akin to Gr. .]
1. To fly aloft, as a bird; to mount upward on wings, or as on wings. Chaucer.
When soars Gaul's vulture with his wings unfurled.
Byron. 2. Fig.: To rise in thought, spirits, or imagination; to be exalted in mood.
Where the deep transported mind may soar.
Milton.
Valor soars above
What the world calls misfortune.
Addison. Soar
(Soar), n. The act of soaring; upward flight.
This apparent soar of the hooded falcon.
Coleridge. Soar
(Soar), a. See 3d Sore. [Obs.]
Soar
(Soar), a. See Sore, reddish brown.
Soar falcon. (Zoöl.) See Sore falcon, under Sore.
Soaring
(Soar"ing), a. & n. from Soar. — Soar"ing*ly, adv.
Soave
(||So*a"ve) a. [It.] (Mus.) Sweet.
Soavemente
(||So*a`ve*men"te) adv. [It.] (Mus.) Sweetly.
Sob
(Sob) v. t. [See Sop.] To soak. [Obs.] Mortimer.
Sob
(Sob), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sobbed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Sobbing.] [OE. sobben; akin to AS. seófian,
siófian, to complain, bewail, seófung, siófung, sobbing, lamentation; cf. OHG. sftön, sftn, to sigh, MHG.
siuften, siufzen, G. seufzen, MHG. sft a sigh, properly, a drawing in of breath, from sfen to drink,
OHG. sfan. Cf. Sup.] To sigh with a sudden heaving of the breast, or with a kind of convulsive motion; to
sigh with tears, and with a convulsive drawing in of the breath.
Sobbing is the same thing [as sighing], stronger.
Bacon.
She sighed, she sobbed, and, furious with despair.
She rent her garments, and she tore her hair.
Dryden. Sob
(Sob), n.
