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Sleepy; drowsy; inclined to sleep. -- Som"no*lent*ly, adv. He had no eye for such phenomens, because he had a somnolent want of interest in them. De Quincey.

The somnolent state induced by animal magnetism. Thomas (Med. Dict.).

Somnipathy.

A summoner; an apparitor; a sompnour. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

A summons; a citation. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A summoner. [Obs.]

To summon; to cite. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A summoner. [Obs.] Chaucer.

e issue, or offspring, of a parent, father or mother. Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son. Gen. xxi. 2.

of one's daughter; a man in his relationship to his wife's parents. To take me as for thy son in lawe. Chaucer.

A sound; a tune; as, to sound the tucket sonance. [Obs.] Shak.

Of or pertaining to sound; sounding.

or one or two instruments, consisting usually of three or four movements; as, Beethoven's sonatas for the piano, for the violin and piano, etc.

A short and simple sonata.

Lucky; fortunate; thriving; plump. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

That which is sent; a message or messenger; hence, also, a visitation of providence; an affliction or trial. [Obs.] Ye have enough, parde, of Goddes sond. Chaucer.

The musk shrew. See under Musk.

eloped in Germany under the patronage of Emperor William and Prince Henry of Prussia, and so called because these yachts do not conform to the restrictions for the regular classes established by the rules of the International Yacht Racing Union. In yachts of the sonderclass, as prescribed for the season of 1911, the a…

the voice, whether of a human being or of a bird, insect, etc. "That most ethereal of all sounds, the song of crickets." Hawthorne.

The art of making songs or verse; metrical composition; versification. A half-effected inscription. Written with little skill of songcraft. Longfellow.