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The act or practice of drawing lots; divination by drawing lots. A woman infamous for sortileges and witcheries. Sir W. Scott.

Pertaining to sortilege.

Sortilege. [R.] De Quincey.

The air sung by any of the principal characters in an opera on entering.

Selection or appointment by lot. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Assortiment. [Obs.]

One of the fruit dots, or small clusters of sporangia, on the back of the fronds of ferns.

Sorrow. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Sorrowful. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Green vitriol, or some earth imregnated with it.

The letters signified by the signal ( . . . ---. . . ) prescribed by the International Radiotelegraphic Convention of 1912 for use by ships in distress.

To fall at once into a chair or seat; to sit lazily. [Obs.] Swift.

Sustained; -- applied to a movement or passage the sounds of which are to sustained to the utmost of the nominal value of the time; also, to a passage the tones of which are to be somewhat prolonged or protacted.

A stupid person; a blockhead; a dull fellow; a dolt. [Obs.] outh. In Egypt oft has seen the sot bow down, And reverence some dOldham.

Sotadic.

Pertaining to, or resembling, the lascivious compositions of the Greek poet Sotades. -- n.

Sweet. [Obs.] Chaucer. Fairfax.

Subtile. [Obs.]

A discourse on health, or the science of promoting and preserving health.

Sooth. [Obs.] Chaucer.