Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SOP'PER, n. [from sop.]

One that sops or dips in liquor something to be eaten. – Johnson.

SOP'PING, ppr.

Steeping in liquid food.

SO-PRA'NIST, n.

A treble singer.

SO-PRA'NO, n.

In music, the treble; the highest female voice.

SORB, n. [Fr. sorbe; It. sorba, sorbo; L. sorbum, sorbus.]

The service tree or its fruit.

SOR'BATE, n.

A compound of malic or sorbic acid with a base. – Ure.

SOR-BE-FA'CIENT, a.

In medicine, producing absorption.

SOR-BE-FA'CIENT, n. [L. sorbeo, to absorb, and facio, to make.]

In medicine, that which produces absorption.

SORB'ENT, a. [or n. See ABSORBENT.]

SORB'IC, a.

Pertaining to the sorbus or service tree; as, sorbic acid. Sorbic acid is only another name for the malic acid, or a name not at all in use.

SORB'ILE, a. [L. sorbeo.]

That may be drank or sipped. [Not in use.]

SORB-I'TION, n. [L. sorbitio.]

The act of drinking or sipping. [Not in use.]

SOR-BON'IC-AL, a.

Belonging to a sorbonist. – Bale.

SOR'BON-IST, n.

A doctor of the Sorbonne in the university of Paris. Sorbonne is the place of meeting; and hence is used for the whole faculty of theology.

SOR'CER-ER, n. [Fr. sorcier; Arm. sorca; supposed to be from L. sors, lot. But see Class Sr, No. 24, Eth.]

A conjurer; an enchanter; a magician. The Egyptian sorcerers contended with Moses. – Watts.

SOR'CER-ESS, n.

A female magician or enchantress. Milton. – Shak.

SOR'CER-OUS, a.

Containing enchantments. – Chapman.

SOR'CER-Y, n.

Magic; enchantment; witchcraft; divination by the assistance or supposed assistance of evil spirits or the power of commanding evil spirits. – Encyc. Adder's wisdom I have learn'd, / To fence my ears against thy sorcerers. – Milton.

SORD, n. [or v.]

for Sward, is now vulgar. [See Sward.]

SORD'A-WAL-ITE, n.

A mineral so named from Sordawald, in Wibourg. It is nearly black, rarely gray or green. – Phillips.

SOR'DES, n. [L.]

Foul matter; excretions; dregs; filthy useless or rejected matter of any kind. – Coxe. Woodward.

SOR'DET, or SOR'DINE, n. [Fr. sourdine; It. sordina; from Fr. sourd; L. surdus, deaf.]

A little pipe in the mouth of a trumpet to make it sound lower or shriller. – Bailey.

SOR'DID, a. [Fr. sordide; It. sordido; L. sordidus, from sordes, filth.]

1. Filthy; foul; dirty; gross. There Charon stands / A sordid god. – Dryden. [This literal sense is nearly obsolete.]
2. Vile; base; mean; as, vulgar, sordid mortals. – Cowley.
3. Meanly avaricious; covetous; niggardly. He may be old / And yet not sordid, who refuses god. – Denham.

SOR'DID-LY, adv.

Meanly; basely; covetously.

SOR'DID-NESS, n.

1. Filthiness; dirtiness. – Ray.
2. Meanness; baseness; as, the execrable sordidness of if delight of Tiberius. – Cowley.
3. Niggardliness.