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nd of false birth, fabled to be produced by Dutch women from sitting over their stoves; also, an abortion, in a figurative sense; an abortive scheme. Fruits of dull heat, and sooterkins of wit. Pope.

True; faithful; trustworthy. [Obs. or Scot.] The sentence [meaning] of it sooth is, out of doubt. Chaucer. That shall I sooth (said he) to you declare. Spensser.

t to; to comply with; to gratify; to humor by compliance; to please with blandishments or soft words; to flatter. Good, my lord, soothe him, let him take the fellow. Shak. I've tried the force of every reason on him, Soothed and caressed, been angry, soothed again. Addison.

One who, or that which, soothes.

Firmly fixed in, or founded upon, the thruth; true; genuine; real; also, truthful; faithful. [Archaic] -- Sooth"fast`ness, n. [Archaic] "In very soothfastness." Chaucer. Why do not you . . . bear leal and soothfast evidence in her behalf, as ye may with a clear conscience! Sir W. Scott.

from Soothe, v.

In a soothing manner.

In truth; truly; really; verily. [Obs.] "Soothly for to say." Chaucer.

Truth; reality. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To foretell; to predict. "You can not soothsay." Shak. "Old soothsaying Glaucus' spell." Milton.

One who foretells events by the art of soothsaying; a prognosticator.

The act of one who soothsays; the foretelling of events; the art or practice of making predictions. A damsel, possessed with a spirit of divination . . . which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying. Acts xvi. 16.

The quality or state of being sooty; fuliginousness. Johnson.

Sooty. Sir T. Browne.

Of or pertaining to soot; producing soot; soiled by soot. "Fire of sooty coal." Milton.

Anything steeped, or dipped and softened, in any liquid; especially, something dipped in broth or liquid food, and intended to be eaten. He it is to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it. John xiii. 26. Sops in wine, quantity, inebriate more than wine itself. Bacon. The bounded waters Should lift their bosoms…

See Soap. [Obs.]

A contraction of Soph ister. [Colloq.]

See Sufi.

Teaching wisdom. [Obs.] S. Harris.