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Mitigating; tranquilizing; soothing. [R.] Music her soft assuasive voice applies. Pope.

To soften, mollify, or moderate; to soothe; to temper; as, to attemper rigid justice with clemency.

One who foretells events by omens; a soothsayer; a diviner; a prophet. Augur of ill, whose tongue was never found Without a priestly curse or boding sound. Dryden.

Soothsaying, or prediction of events, from observation of the winds.

To anoint with balm, or with anything medicinal. Hence: To soothe; to mitigate. [Archaic] Shak.

Having the qualities of balm; odoriferous; aromatic; assuaging; soothing; refreshing; mild. "The balmy breeze." Tickell. Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep ! Young.

Anything that heals, soothes, or restores. Was not the people's blessing a balsam to thy blood Tennyson. Balsam apple (Bot.), an East Indian plant ( Momordica balsamina), of the gourd family, with red or orange-yellow cucumber-shaped fruit of the size of a walnut, used as a vulnerary, and in liniments and poultices. -…

Having the qualities of balsam; containing, or resembling, balsam; soft; mitigative; soothing; restorative.

Mild; soft; gentle; smooth and soothing in manner; suave; as, a bland temper; bland persuasion; a bland sycophant. "Exhilarating vapor bland." Milton.

To deliver from agitation or excitement; to still or soothe, as the mind or passions. Passions which seem somewhat calmed.

To engage and attach; to please; to charm. The soothing arts that catch the fair. Dryden.

or friendless, education, religious culture, and public institutions. The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of man like flowers. Wordsworth. Sisters of Charity (R. C. Ch.), a sisterhood of religious women engaged in works of mercy, esp. in nursing the sick; -- a popular designation.…

To subdue or overcome by some secret power, or by that which gives pleasure; to allay; to soothe. Music the fiercest grief can charm. Pope.

ion, as by scratching; to tickle; hence, to flatter; to court. [Obs.] Rich men they claw, soothe up, and flatter; the poor they contemn and despise. Holland.

To persuade by gentle, insinuating courtesy, flattering, or fondling; to wheedle; to soothe.

vent; to originate; as, to coin a word. Some tale, some new pretense, he daily coined, To soothe his sister and delude her mind. Dryden.

To free from agitation or disturbance; to tranquilize; to soothe; to calm; to quiet. Compose thy mind; Nor frauds are here contrived, nor force designed. Dryden.

Tending to compose or soothe.

r depression; to alleviate the grief and raise the spirits of; to relieve; to comfort; to soothe. And empty heads console with empty sound. Pope. I am much consoled by the reflection that the religion of Christ has been attacked in vain by all the wits and philosophers, and its triumph has been complete. P. Henry.…

To soothe by singing softly. The fragment of the childish hymn with which he sung and crooned himself asleep. Dickens.