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SOUTHWESTERN a.
Of or pertaining to the southwest; southwesterly; as, to sail a southwestern course.
SOUTHWESTWARD; SOUTHWESTWARDLY adv.
Toward the southwest.
SOUVENANCE; SOVENAUNCE n.
Remembrance. [Obs.] Of his way he had no sovenance. Spenser.
SOUVENIR n.
That which serves as a reminder; a remembrancer; a memento; a keepsake.
SOVEREIGN a. 8 definitions
Supreme or highest in power; superior to all others; chief; as, our sovereign prince.
SOVEREIGNIZE v.
To exercise supreme authority. [Obs.] Sir T. Herbert.
SOVEREIGNLY adv.
In a sovereign manner; in the highest degree; supremely. Chaucer.
SOVEREIGNTY n.
The quality or state of being sovereign, or of being a sovereign; the exercise of, or right to exercise, supreme power; dominion; sway; supremacy; independence; also, that which is sovereign; a sovereign state; as, Italy was formerly divided into many sovereignties. Woman desiren to have sovereignty As well over their…
SOVRAN a.
A variant of Sovereign. [Poetic] On thy bald, awful head, O sovran Blanc. Coleridge.
SOW n. 10 definitions
A sow bug.
SOWANS n.
See Sowens.
SOWAR n.
In India, a mounted soldier.
SOWBANE n.
The red goosefoot (Chenopodium rubrum), -- said to be fatal to swine.
SOWCE n.
See Souse. [Obs.]
SOWDAN n.
Sultan. [Obs.] Chaucer.
SOWDANESSE n.
A sultaness. [Obs.] Chaucer.
SOWENS n.
not unlike that by which common starch is made; -- called flummery in England. [Written also sowans, and sowins.]
SOWER n.
One who, or that which, sows.
SOWINS n.
See Sowens.
SOWL v.
See Soul, v. i. [Obs.]
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