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(such food having the effect of purging them), to purge by feeding on green food; as, to soil a horse.

A pipe or drain for carrying off night soil.

Stain; foulness. [R.] Bacon.

Destitute of soil or mold.

Stain; pollution. Shak. Then fearing rust or soilure, fashioned for it A case of silk. Tennyson.

Dirty; soiled. [Obs.] Fuller.

An evening party; -- distinguished from levee, and matinée.

An Asiatic leguminous herb (Glycine Soja) the seeds of which are used in preparing the sauce called soy.

Var. of Soldier. [Dial. or Slang]

ng the place as a permanent habitation; to delay; to tarry. Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there. Gen. xii. 30. Home he goeth, he might not longer sojourn. Chaucer. The soldiers first assembled at Newcastle, and there sojourned three days. Hayward.

One who sojourns. We are strangers before thee, and sojourners. 1. Chron. xxix. 15.

The act or state of one who sojourns.

Temporary residence, as that of a stranger or a traveler. [R.]

See Soc.

See Socman.

See Socmanry.

A toll. See Soc, n., 2. [Obs.] Great sooken had this miller, out of doubt. Chaucer.

An African anthropoid ape, supposed to be a variety of the chimpanzee.

Gold; -- so called from its brilliancy, color, and value. Chaucer.

To sing the notes of the gamut, ascending or descending; as, do or ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si, do, or the same in reverse order. Yet can I neither solfe ne sing. Piers Plowman.