Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SOAP, v.t. [Sax. sapan; D. zeepen; G. seifen.]

To rub or wash over with soap.

SOAP-BER-RY-TREE, n.

A tree of the genus Sapindus.

SOAP-BOIL-ER, n. [soap and boiler.]

One whose occupation is to make soap.

SOAP'ED, pp.

Rubbed or washed with soap.

SOAP'ING, ppr.

Rubbing or washing with soap.

SOAP'STONE, n.

Steatite; a magnesian mineral, usually gray, white or yellow; the Lapis ollaris.

SOAP-SUDS, n.

Suds; water well impregnated with soap.

SOAP-WORT, n.

A plant of the genus Saponaria.

SOAP'Y, a.

1. Resembling soap; having the qualities of soap; soft and smooth.
2. Smeared with soap.

SOAR, n.

A towering flight. – Milton.

SOAR, v.i. [Fr. essorer, to soar; essor, flight; It. sorare; Eth. ሠረረ sarar, to fly, to be lofty. Lud. Col. 109. Class Sr, No. 20.]

1. To fly aloft; to mount upon the wing; as an eagle. Hence,
2. To rise high; to mount; to tower in thought or imagination; to be sublime; as the poet or orator.
3. To rise high in ambition or heroism. Valor soars above / What the world calls misfortune. – Addison.
4. In general, to rise aloft; to be lofty.

SOAR'ING, n.

The act of mounting on the wing, or of towering in thought or mind; intellectual flight.

SOAR'ING, ppr.

Mounting on the wing; rising aloft; towering in thought or mind.

SOAVO, a. [Soavo.]

In music, agreeable; pleasing.

SOB, n.

A convulsive sigh or catching of the breath in sorrow; a convulsive act of respiration obstructed by sorrow. Johnson. Break, heart, or choke with sobs my hated breath. – Dryden.

SOB, v.i. [Sax. seobgend, complaining. Qu.]

To sigh with a sudden heaving of the breast, or a kind convulsive motion; to sigh with deep sorrow or with tears. She sigh'd, she sobb'd, and furious with despair, / She rent her garments, and she tore her hair. – Dryden.

SOB, v.t.

To soak. [Not in use.] – Mortimer.

SOB'BING, n.

Lamentation.

SOB'BING, ppr.

Sighing with a heaving of the breast.

SO'BER, a. [Fr. sobre; It. sobrio; L. sobrius; D. sober, poor, mean, spare, sober; Sax. sifer, sober, pure, chaste. See Soft.]

1. Temperate in the use of spiritous liquors; habitually temperate; as, a sober man. Live a sober, righteous and godly life. – Com. Prayer.
2. Not intoxicated or overpowered by spiritous liquors; not drunken. The sot may at times be sober.
3. Not mad or insane; not wild, visionary or heated with passion; having the regular exercise of cool dispassionate reason. There was not a sober person to be had; all was tempestuous and blustering. – Dryden. No sober man would put himself in danger for the applause of escaping without breaking his neck. Dryden.
4. Regular; calm; not under the influence of passion; as, sober judgment; a man in his sober senses.
5. Serious; solemn; grave; as, the sober livery of autumn. What parts gay France from sober Spain? – Prior. See her sober over a sampler, or gay over a jointed baby. – Pope.

SO'BER, v.t.

To make sober; to cure of intoxication. There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, / And drinking largely sobers us again. – Pope.

SO'BER-ED, pp.

Made sober.

SO'BER-LY, adv.

1. Without intemperance.
2. Without enthusiasm.
3. Without intemperate passion; coolly; calmly; moderately. – Bacon. Locke.
4. Gravely; seriously.

SO'BER-MIND-ED, a.

Having a disposition or temper habitually sober, calm and temperate.

SO-BER-MIND-ED-NESS, n.

Calmness; freedom from inordinate passions; habitual sobriety. Porteus.