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A soft, effeminate person; a voluptuary. [R.] Bp. Woolton. .

In a soft manner.

See Softener.

The quality or state of being soft; -- opposed to Ant: hardness, and used in the various specific senses of the adjective.

Same as Sufi, Sufism.

Proof against the splinters, or fragments, of bursting shells.

Earnest and active in matters of no moment; bustling. [Colloq. Eng.] Dickens.

Any one of a series of double fluorides of tin (stannum) and some other element.

Impervious to the light of the stars; as, a starproof elm. [Poetic] Milton.

An under or subordinate officer.

Impervious to the rays of the sun. "Darksome yew, sunproof." Marston.

An imitation, especially in the way of caricature.

Removal; murder. See To take off (c), under Take, v. t. The deep damnation of his taking-off. Shak.

Of or pertaining to both the temple and the face.

Of that or this. In the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die. Gen. ii. 17.

Up to that time; before then; -- correlative with heretofore.

Any system of rudders by which the pilot can exert a turning moment about each of the three rectangular axes of an aëroplane or airship.

A start in a hunt or a race. [Eng.]

Secure against the effects of thunder or lightning.

A fop; a beau; a swell. [Slang, Eng.] Kipling.