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27,745 words match “SO”

SOPOROSE; SOPOROUS a.
Causing sleep; sleepy.
SOPPER n.
One who sops. Johnson.
SOPPING n.
more recent version of soppy. Used esp. in phrase sopping wet.
SOPPY a.
Soaked or saturated with liquid or moisture; very wet or sloppy. It [Yarmouth] looked rather spongy and soppy. Dickens.
SOPRA adv.
Above; before; over; upon.
SOPRANIST n.
A treble singer.
SOPRANO n. 2 definitions
The treble; the highest vocal register; the highest kind of female or boy's voice; the upper part in harmony for mixed voices.
SOPSAVINE n.
See Sops of wine, under Sop.
SORA n.
head and throat black, the breast and sides of the head and neck slate-colored. Called also American rail, Carolina rail, Carolina crake, common rail, sora rail, soree, meadow chicken, and orto. King sora, the Florida gallinule.
SORANCE n.
Soreness. [Obs.]
SORB n. 2 definitions
The wild service tree (Pyrus torminalis) of Europe; also, the rowan tree.
SORBATE n.
A salt of sorbic acid.
SORBEFACIENT a. 2 definitions
Producing absorption. -- n.
SORBENT n.
An absorbent. [R.]
SORBET n.
A kind of beverage; sherbet. Smolett.
SORBIC a.
Pertaining to, or obtained from, the rowan tree, or sorb; specifically, designating an acid, C
SORBILE a.
Fit to be drunk or sipped. [Obs.]
SORBIN n.
An unfermentable sugar, isomeric with glucose, found in the ripe berries of the rowan tree, or sorb, and extracted as a sweet white crystalline substance; -- called also mountain-ash sugar.
SORBITE n.
A sugarlike substance, isomeric with mannite and dulcite, found with sorbin in the ripe berries of the sorb, and extracted as a sirup or a white crystalline substance. -- Sor*bit"ic, a.
SORBITION n.
The act of drinking or sipping. [Obs.]
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