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stupid person; a blockhead; a dull fellow; a dolt. [Obs.] outh. In Egypt oft has seen the sot bow down, And reverence some dOldham.

Sotadic.

Pertaining to, or resembling, the lascivious compositions of the Greek poet Sotades. -- n.

Sweet. [Obs.] Chaucer. Fairfax.

Subtile. [Obs.]

A discourse on health, or the science of promoting and preserving health.

Sooth. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Of or pertaining to Sothis, the Egyptian name for the Dog Star; taking its name from the Dog Star; canicular. Sothiac, or Sothic, year (Chronol.), the Egyptian year of 365 days and 6 hours, as distinguished from the Egyptian vague year, which contained 365 days. The Sothic period consists of 1,460 Sothic years, being e…

Subtlety. [Obs.] Chaucer.

a. & p. p. of Sot. Befooled; deluded; besotted. [Obs.] "This sotted priest." Chaucer.

Folly. [Obs.] Gauden.

Like a sot; doltish; very foolish; drunken. How ignorant are sottish pretenders to astrology! Swift.

With a restrained voice or moderate force; in an undertone.

Not isotropic; having different properties in different directions; thus, crystals of the isometric system are optically isotropic, but all other crystals are anisotropic.

Anisotropic.

Good against an inflammatory fever. -- n.

To besot; to befool; to beguile; to infatuate. [Obs.] Some ecstasy assotted had his sense. Spenser.

To make sottish; to make dull or stupid; to stupefy; to infatuate. Fools besotted with their crimes. Hudibras.

Made sottish, senseless, or infatuated; characterized by drunken stupidity, or by infatuation; stupefied. "Besotted devotion." Sir W. Scott. -- Be*sot"ted*ly, adv. -- Be*sot"ted*ness, n. Milton.

In a besotting manner.