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is driven into the boiler by the impulse of a jet of the steam which becomes condensed as soon as it strikes the stream of cold water it impels; - - also called Giffard's injector, from the inventor.

wn, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. Acts vii. 60. As soon as you are dressed, kneel and say the Lord's Prayer. Jer. Taylor.

the gist of a matter. [Obs.] I shoulde to the knotte condescend, And maken of her walking soon an end. Chaucer.

te or involved form, or having a very complicated nature. The serpent . . . fast sleeping soon he found, In labyrinth of many a round self-rolled. Milton. The labyrinth of the mind. Tennyson.

stress. Like her who missed her name in a lampoon, And grieved to find herself decayed so soon. Dryden.

oft woolly hair which covers most parts of the mammal fetus, and in man is shed before or soon after birth.

weariness. The corporeal instruments of action being strained to a high pitch . . . will soon feel a lassitude. Barrow.

The state or quality of being lazy. Laziness travels so slowly, that Poverty soon overtakes him. Franklin.

levy taxes, toll, tribute, or contributions. If they do this . . . my ransom, then, Will soon be levied. Shak.

which was of a soft, pathetic, or voluptuous character. Softly sweet in Lydian measures, Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures. Dryden. Lydian stone, a flint slate used by the ancients to try gold and silver; a touchstone. See Basanite.

ion; as, an aftermath. [Obs.] The first mowing thereof, for the king's use, is wont to be sooner than the common math. Bp. Hall.

Early; soon. [A Latinism, little used] Bentley.

To become mellow; as, ripe fruit soon mellows. "Prosperity begins to mellow." Shak.

The middle bark of a tree; the green layer of bark, usually soon covered by the outer or corky layer, and obliterated.

The quality of being mighty; possession of might; power; greatness; high dignity. How soon this mightiness meets misery. Shak.

Furnished with a moon; bearing a crescent. But soon the miscreant moony host Before the victor cross shall fly. Fenton.

t point; culmination. In the very noon of that brilliant life which was destined to be so soon, and so fatally, overshadowed. Motley. High noon, the exact meridian; midday. -- Noon of night, midnight. [Poetic] Dryden.

Ere; before; sooner than. [Obs.] But natheless, while I have time and space, Or that I forther in this tale pace. Chaucer. Or ever, Or ere. See under Ever, and Ere.

To overtake. [Obs.] So forth he went and soon them overhent. Spenser.

dull, or insipid; to lose strength, life, spirit, or taste; as, the liquor palls. Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in the eye, and palls upon the sense. Addisin.