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One who is disgruntled by a failure in politics, or the like. [Slang, U.S.]

Formerly, in Ireland, a kind of servile tenure which subjected the tenant to maintain his chieftain gratuitously whenever he wished to indulge in a revel. Spenser.

A yellowish or reddish brown color; sorrel.

In a sore manner; grievously; painfully; as, to be sorely afflicted.

A heap of carpels belonging to one flower.

The quality or state of being sore; tenderness; painfull; as, the soreness of a wound; the soreness of an affliction.

A genus of small Insectivora, including the common shrews.

The three-beared rocking, or whistlefish. [Prov. Eng.]

A genus of grasses, properly limited to two species, Sorghum Halepense, the Arabian millet, or Johnson grass (see Johnson grass), and S. vulgare, the Indian millet (see Indian millet, under Indian).

Indian millet and its varieties. See Sorghum.

pl. of Sorus.

Of or pertaining to the Shrew family (Soricidæ); like a shrew in form or habits; as, the soricine bat (Glossophaga soricina).

An abridged form of stating of syllogisms in a series of propositions so arranged that the predicate of each one that precedes forms the subject of each one that follows, and the conclusion unites the subject of the first proposition with the predicate of the last proposition, as in following example; -- The soul is a…

Of or pertaining to a sorites; resembling a sorites.

To obtrude one's self on another for bed and board. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

One who obtrudes himself on another for bed and board. [Scot.] De Quncey.

Relating to a sister; sisterly. [R.]

The murder of one's sister; also, one who murders or kills one's own sister. Johnson.

To associate, or hold fellowship, as sisters; to have sisterly feelings; -- analogous to fraternize. [Recent & R.]

A woman's club; an association of women. [U. S.]