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ts 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.

color, occuring commonly in dodecahedrons, also massive. It is a silicate of alumina and soda with some chlorine.

A fellowship or fraternity; a brotherhood.

greenish or reddish crystalline substance, NaNH2, obtained by passing ammonia over heated sodium.

Boiled; seethed; also, soaked; heavy with moisture; saturated; as, sodden beef; sodden bread; sodden fields.

Heavy; dull. Shak.

Consisting of sod; covered with sod; turfy. Cotgrave.

See Solder.

Var. of Soldier. [Dial. or Slang]

Of or pertaining to sodium; containing sodium.

A combining form (also used adjectively) denoting the presence of sodium or one of its compounds.

ntly with water, and to be preserved must be kept under petroleum or some similar liquid. Sodium is used combined in many salts, in the free state as a reducer, and as a means of obtaining other metals (as magnesium and aluminium) is an important commercial product. Symbol Na (Natrium). Atomic weight 23. Specific gravi…

A salt well known as a catharic under the name of Glauber's salt, which term is properly applied to the hydrate, Na2SO4.10H2O.

An inhabitant of Sodom.

Pertaining to, or of the nature of, sodomy. -- Sod`om*it"ic*al*ly, adv.

Carnal copulation in a manner against nature; buggery. Gen. xix. 5.

Conveying sensory or afferent impulses; -- said of nerves.

A group of perching birds which are anisodactylous.