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h is symbolized by the buskin. Great Fletcher never treads in buskin here, Nor greater Jonson dares in socks appear. Dryden.

A combination of two hooks which close upon each other, by means of a spring, as soon as the fish bites. [U. S.]

opening into which anything is fitted; any hollow thing or place which receives and holds something else; as, the sockets of the teeth. His eyeballs in their hollow sockets sink. Dryden.

Having a socket. Dawkins.

Destitute of socks or shoes. B. & Fl.

Wet; soaky. [Prov. Eng.]

A plain block or plinth forming a low pedestal; any base; especially, the base of a statue, column, or the like. See Plinth.

One who holds lands or tenements by socage; a socager. Cowell.

Tenure by socage.

A custom of tenants to grind corn at the lord's mill. Cowell.

Of or pertaining to Socotra, an island in the Indian Ocean, on the east coast of Africa. -- n.

Of or pertaining to Socrates, the Grecian sage and teacher. (b. c. 469-399), or to his manner of teaching and philosophizing.

In the Socratic method.

The philosophy or the method of Socrates.

A disciple or follower of Socrates.

That stratum of the surface of the soil which is filled with the roots of grass, or any portion of that surface; turf; sward. She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. Collins.

Sodium oxide or hydroxide.

Pertaining to, or containing, soda. "Sodaic powder." Ure.

A mineral of a white to blue or gray color, occuring commonly in dodecahedrons, also massive. It is a silicate of alumina and soda with some chlorine.

Specifically, a lay association for devotion or for charitable purposes.