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French copper coin, equivalent in value to, and now displaced by, the five-centime piece (sou.

The large edible nutlike seed of a tall tropical American tree (Caryocar nuciferum) of the same natural order with the tea plant; -- also called butternut. [Written also sawarra nut.]

See Subah.

See Subahdar.

[F.] A sauce made of white onions and melted butter mixed with velouté sauce.

A female servant or attendant; specifically, as a term of the theater, a lady's maid, in comedies, who acts the part of an intrigante; a meddlesome, mischievous female servant or young woman.

See Sobriquet.

See 1st Souse.

A kind of black tea of a fine quality.

A sultan. [Obs.]

United; consolidated; made firm; strengthened. [Obs.] O martyr souded for virginity! Chaucer.

A murmuring or blowing sound; as, the uterine souffle heard over the pregnant uterus.

Filled with air by beating, and baked; as, an omelette soufflé.

The sound produced by soughing; a hollow murmur or roaring. The whispering leaves or solemn sough of the forest. W. Howitt.

imp. & p. p. of Seek.

To suck. [Obs.] Chaucer.

sometimes, in distinction from the higher nature, or spirit, of man, the so-called animal soul, that is, the seat of life, the sensitive affections and phantasy, exclusive of the voluntary and rational powers; -- sometimes, in distinction from the mind, the moral and emotional part of man's nature, the seat of feeling,…

Furnished with a soul; possessing soul and feeling; -- used chiefly in composition; as, great-souled Hector. "Grecian chiefs . . . largely souled." Dryden.

A long-tailed, crested Javan monkey (Semnopithecus mitratus). The head, the crest, and the upper surface of the tail, are black.

Being without a soul, or without greatness or nobleness of mind; mean; spiritless. Slave, souless villain, dog! Shak.