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Smoldering; suffocating; smothery. [Obs.] A flaming fire ymixt with smoldry smoke. Spenser.

See Smolder.

See Smoldry.

ometimes, in distinction from the higher nature, or spirit, of man, the so-called animal soul, that is, the seat of life, the sensitive affections and phantasy, exclusive of the voluntary and rational powers; -- sometimes, in distinction from the mind, the moral and emotional part of man's nature, the seat of feeling,…

Furnished with a soul; possessing soul and feeling; -- used chiefly in composition; as, great-souled Hector. "Grecian chiefs . . . largely souled." Dryden.

A long-tailed, crested Javan monkey (Semnopithecus mitratus). The head, the crest, and the upper surface of the tail, are black.

Being without a soul, or without greatness or nobleness of mind; mean; spiritless. Slave, souless villain, dog! Shak.

In a soulless manner. Tylor.

See Troll.

To change the form of; to reduce from any form. "Unmolding reason's mintage." Milton.

To deprive of soul, spirit, or principle. [R.] Shelton.

An old French variety of pear, of little value.

Thoroughly imbued with a right spirit; noble-minded; devoted.

To howl. [Obs.] Wyclif.

Commonly used as an auxiliary verb, either in the past tense or in the conditional or optative present. See 2d & 3d Will.

' (as, a would-be poet.

Emotion of desire; inclination; velleity. [Obs.] Hammond.

Willingness; desire. [Obs.]

A kind of wash bottle with two or three necks; -- so called after the inventor, Peter Woulfe, an English chemist.

To yell; to yowl. [Obs.] Chaucer.