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To cover or dress with soot; to smut with, or as with, soot; as, to soot land. Mortimer.

Sweet. [Obs.] "The soote savour of the vine." Chaucer.

s; also, an abortion, in a figurative sense; an abortive scheme. Fruits of dull heat, and sooterkins of wit. Pope.

True; faithful; trustworthy. [Obs. or Scot.] The sentence [meaning] of it sooth is, out of doubt. Chaucer. That shall I sooth (said he) to you declare. Spensser.

mor by compliance; to please with blandishments or soft words; to flatter. Good, my lord, soothe him, let him take the fellow. Shak. I've tried the force of every reason on him, Soothed and caressed, been angry, soothed again. Addison.

One who, or that which, soothes.

or founded upon, the thruth; true; genuine; real; also, truthful; faithful. [Archaic] -- Sooth"fast`ness, n. [Archaic] "In very soothfastness." Chaucer. Why do not you . . . bear leal and soothfast evidence in her behalf, as ye may with a clear conscience! Sir W. Scott.

from Soothe, v.

In a soothing manner.

In truth; truly; really; verily. [Obs.] "Soothly for to say." Chaucer.

Truth; reality. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To foretell; to predict. "You can not soothsay." Shak. "Old soothsaying Glaucus' spell." Milton.

One who foretells events by the art of soothsaying; a prognosticator.

The act of one who soothsays; the foretelling of events; the art or practice of making predictions. A damsel, possessed with a spirit of divination . . . which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying. Acts xvi. 16.

The quality or state of being sooty; fuliginousness. Johnson.

Sooty. Sir T. Browne.

Of or pertaining to soot; producing soot; soiled by soot. "Fire of sooty coal." Milton.

nce or respect, especially to woman; now used ironically or contemptuously. A fit man, forsooth, to govern a realm! Hayward. Our old English word forsooth has been changed for the French madam. Guardian.

In sooth; truly. [Archaic]

Not sweet. [Obs.] Spenser.