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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.

A short poem, -- usually amatory. [Obs.] Shak. He had a wonderful desire to chant a sonnet or hymn unto Apollo Pythius. Holland.

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.

A composer of sonnets.

A sonneter, or sonneteer. Bp. Hall.

To compose sonnets.

Like the sun; sunny; golden. [Obs.] "Her sonnish hairs." Chaucer.

See Sunnite.

An instrument for exhibiting the transverse vibrations of cords, and ascertaining the relations between musical notes. It consists of a cord stretched by weight along a box, and divided into different lengths at pleasure by a bridge, the place of which is determined by a scale on the face of the box.…

armer parts of the western United States and central Mexico. It is divided into the Upper Sonoran, which lies next to the Transition zone, and the Lower Sonoran, next to the Tropical.

Producing sound; as, the sonorific quality of a body. [R.] I. Watts.

The quality or state of being sonorous; sonorousness.

Giving sound when struck; resonant; as, sonorous metals.

The state of being a son, or of bearing the relation of a son; filiation. Dr. H. More.

See Soncy. [Scot.] Burns.

A knitted worsted jacket, worn over the waist of a woman's dress.

Probably from "saintes" saints, or from sanctities; -- used as an oath. [Obs.] Shak.

Discordant; contrary; -- opposed to consonant. "Absonant to nature." Quarles.

Discordant; inharmonious; incongruous. [Obs.] "Absonous to our reason." Glanvill.

A genus of great trees related to the Bombax. There are two species, A. digitata, the baobab or monkey-bread of Africa and India, and A. Gregorii, the sour gourd or cream-of-tartar tree of Australia. Both have a trunk of moderate height, but of enormous diameter, and a wide-spreading head. The fruit is oblong, and fill…