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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.

To render quiet; to soothe. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To sweeten; to soothe. [Obs.] Bacon.

Any medicine which allays pain, as an opiate or narcotic; anything that soothes disturbed feelings.

Skillful plan; device. They employed every art to soothe . . . the discontented warriors. Macaulay.

To soften, mollify, or moderate; to soothe; to temper; as, to attemper rigid justice with clemency.

To anoint with balm, or with anything medicinal. Hence: To soothe; to mitigate. [Archaic] Shak.

Anything that heals, soothes, or restores. Was not the people's blessing a balsam to thy blood Tennyson. Balsam apple (Bot.), an East Indian plant ( Momordica balsamina), of the gourd family, with red or orange-yellow cucumber-shaped fruit of the size of a walnut, used as a vulnerary, and in liniments and poultices. -…

To deliver from agitation or excitement; to still or soothe, as the mind or passions. Passions which seem somewhat calmed.

or friendless, education, religious culture, and public institutions. The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of man like flowers. Wordsworth. Sisters of Charity (R. C. Ch.), a sisterhood of religious women engaged in works of mercy, esp. in nursing the sick; -- a popular designation.…

To subdue or overcome by some secret power, or by that which gives pleasure; to allay; to soothe. Music the fiercest grief can charm. Pope.

ion, as by scratching; to tickle; hence, to flatter; to court. [Obs.] Rich men they claw, soothe up, and flatter; the poor they contemn and despise. Holland.

To persuade by gentle, insinuating courtesy, flattering, or fondling; to wheedle; to soothe.

vent; to originate; as, to coin a word. Some tale, some new pretense, he daily coined, To soothe his sister and delude her mind. Dryden.

To free from agitation or disturbance; to tranquilize; to soothe; to calm; to quiet. Compose thy mind; Nor frauds are here contrived, nor force designed. Dryden.

Tending to compose or soothe.

r depression; to alleviate the grief and raise the spirits of; to relieve; to comfort; to soothe. And empty heads console with empty sound. Pope. I am much consoled by the reflection that the religion of Christ has been attacked in vain by all the wits and philosophers, and its triumph has been complete. P. Henry.…

To soothe by singing softly. The fragment of the childish hymn with which he sung and crooned himself asleep. Dickens.

To soothe; to mollify; to pacify; to soften. [R.] Sir T. Elyot.