2. (Zoöl.) A singing bird.
Songstress
(Song"stress) n. [See Songster, and -ess.] A woman who sings; also, a female singing
bird. Thomson.
Sonifer
(Son"i*fer) n. [NL. See Soniferous.] A kind of ear trumpet for the deaf, or the partially deaf.
Soniferous
(So*nif"er*ous) a. [L. sonus sound + -ferous.] Sounding; producing sound; conveying sound.
Sonification
(Son`i*fi*ca"tion) n. [L. sonus sound + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See - fy.] The act of
producing sound, as the stridulation of insects.
Son-in-law
(Son"-in-law`) n.; pl. Sons-in-law The husband of one's daughter; a man in his relationship
to his wife's parents.
To take me as for thy son in lawe.
Chaucer. Sonless
(Son"less), a. Being without a son. Marston.
As no baron who was sonless could give a husband to his daughter, save with his lord's consent.
J. R.
Green. Sonnet
(Son"net) n. [F., fr. It. sonetto, fr. suono a sound, a song, fr. L. sonus a sound. See Sound
noise.]
1. A short poem, — usually amatory. [Obs.] Shak.
He had a wonderful desire to chant a sonnet or hymn unto Apollo Pythius.
Holland. 2. A poem of fourteen lines, — two stanzas, called the octave, being of four verses each, and two stanzas,
called the sestet, of three verses each, the rhymes being adjusted by a particular rule.
In the proper sonnet each line has five accents, and the octave has but two rhymes, the second, third,
sixth, and seventh lines being of one rhyme, and the first, fourth, fifth, and eighth being of another. In
the sestet there are sometimes two and sometimes three rhymes; but in some way its two stazas rhyme
together. Often the three lines of the first stanza rhyme severally with the three lines of the second. In
Shakespeare's sonnets, the first twelve lines are rhymed alternately, and the last two rhyme together.
Sonnet
(Son"net), v. i. To compose sonnets. "Strains that come almost to sonneting." Milton.
Sonneteer
(Son`net*eer") n. A composer of sonnets, or small poems; a small poet; — usually in contempt.
What woful stuff this madrigal would be
In some starved hackney sonneteer or me!
Pope. Sonneteer
(Son`net*eer"), v. i. To compose sonnets. Lowell.
Sonneter
(Son"net*er) n. A composer of sonnets.
Sonnetist
(Son"net*ist), n. A sonneter, or sonneteer. Bp. Hall.
Sonnetize
(Son"net*ize) v. i. To compose sonnets.
Sonnish
(Son"nish) a. Like the sun; sunny; golden. [Obs.] "Her sonnish hairs." Chaucer.
Sonnite
(Son"nite) n. See Sunnite.
Sonometer
(So*nom"e*ter) n. [L. sonus a sound + -meter.]
