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Of or pertaining to Sothis, the Egyptian name for the Dog Star; taking its name from the Dog Star; canicular. Sothiac, or Sothic, year (Chronol.), the Egyptian year of 365 days and 6 hours, as distinguished from the Egyptian vague year, which contained 365 days. The Sothic period consists of 1,460 Sothic years, being e…

Subtlety. [Obs.] Chaucer.

a. & p. p. of Sot. Befooled; deluded; besotted. [Obs.] "This sotted priest." Chaucer.

Folly. [Obs.] Gauden.

Like a sot; doltish; very foolish; drunken. How ignorant are sottish pretenders to astrology! Swift.

With a restrained voice or moderate force; in an undertone.

French copper coin, equivalent in value to, and now displaced by, the five-centime piece (sou.

cal American tree (Caryocar nuciferum) of the same natural order with the tea plant; -- also called butternut. [Written also sawarra nut.]

See Subah.

See Subahdar.

[F.] A sauce made of white onions and melted butter mixed with velouté sauce.

m of the theater, a lady's maid, in comedies, who acts the part of an intrigante; a meddlesome, mischievous female servant or young woman.

See Sobriquet.

See 1st Souse.

A kind of black tea of a fine quality.

A sultan. [Obs.]

United; consolidated; made firm; strengthened. [Obs.] O martyr souded for virginity! Chaucer.

A murmuring or blowing sound; as, the uterine souffle heard over the pregnant uterus.

Filled with air by beating, and baked; as, an omelette soufflé.

A sow. [Obs.] Chaucer.