Sound (v. i.) To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound.
Sound (v. i.) To make or convey a certain impression, or to have a certain import, when heard; hence, to seem; to appear; as, this reproof sounds harsh; the story sounds like an invention.
Sound (v. t.) To causse to make a noise; to play on; as, to sound a trumpet or a horn.
Sound (v. t.) To cause to exit as a sound; as, to sound a note with the voice, or on an instrument.
Sound (v. t.) To order, direct, indicate, or proclain by a sound, or sounds; to give a signal for by a certain sound; as, to sound a retreat; to sound a parley.
Sound (v. t.) To celebrate or honor by sounds; to cause to be reported; to publish or proclaim; as, to sound the praises of fame of a great man or a great exploit.
Sound (v. t.) To examine the condition of (anything) by causing the same to emit sounds and noting their character; as, to sound a piece of timber; to sound a vase; to sound the lungs of a patient.
Sound (v. t.) To signify; to import; to denote.
Soundable (a.) Capable of being sounded.
Soundage (n.) Dues for soundings.
Sound-board (n.) A sounding-board.
Sounder (n.) One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
Sounder (n.) A herd of wild hogs.
Sounding (a.) Making or emitting sound; hence, sonorous; as, sounding words.
Sounding (n.) The act of one who, or that which, sounds (in any of the senses of the several verbs).
Sounding (n.) measurement by sounding; also, the depth so ascertained.
Sounding (n.) Any place or part of the ocean, or other water, where a sounding line will reach the bottom; -- usually in the plural.
Sounding (n.) The sand, shells, or the like, that are brought up by the sounding lead when it has touched bottom.
Sounding-board (n.) A thin board which propagates the sound in a piano, in a violin, and in some other musical instruments.
Sounding-board (n.) A board or structure placed behind or over a pulpit or rostrum to give distinctness to a speaker's voice.
Sounding-board (n.) See Sound boarding, under Sound, a noise.
Soundless (a.) Not capable of being sounded or fathomed; unfathomable.
Soundless (a.) Having no sound; noiseless; silent.
Soundly (adv.) In a sound manner.
Soundness (n.) The quality or state of being sound; as, the soundness of timber, of fruit, of the teeth, etc.; the soundness of reasoning or argument; soundness of faith.
Soune (v. t. & i.) To sound.
Sounst (a.) Soused. See Souse.
Soup (n.) A liquid food of many kinds, usually made by boiling meat and vegetables, or either of them, in water, -- commonly seasoned or flavored; strong broth.
Soup (v. t.) To sup or swallow.
Soup (v. t.) To breathe out.
Soup (v. t.) To sweep. See Sweep, and Swoop.
Soupe-maigre (n.) Soup made chiefly from vegetables or fish with a little butter and a few condiments.
Souple (n.) That part of a flail which strikes the grain.
Soupy (a.) Resembling soup; souplike.
Sour (superl.) Having an acid or sharp, biting taste, like vinegar, and the juices of most unripe fruits; acid; tart.
Sour (superl.) Changed, as by keeping, so as to be acid, rancid, or musty, turned.
Sour (superl.) Disagreeable; unpleasant; hence; cross; crabbed; peevish; morose; as, a man of a sour temper; a sour reply.
Sour (superl.) Afflictive; painful.
Sour (superl.) Cold and unproductive; as, sour land; a sour marsh.
Sour (n.) A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.
Sour (v. t.) To cause to become sour; to cause to turn from sweet to sour; as, exposure to the air sours many substances.
Sour (v. t.) To make cold and unproductive, as soil.
Sour (v. t.) To make unhappy, uneasy, or less agreeable.
Sour (v. t.) To cause or permit to become harsh or unkindly.
Sour (v. t.) To macerate, and render fit for plaster or mortar; as, to sour lime for business purposes.
Soured (imp. & p. p.) of Sour
Souring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sour
Sour (v. i.) To become sour; to turn from sweet to sour; as, milk soon sours in hot weather; a kind temper sometimes sours in adversity.
Source (n.) The act of rising; a rise; an ascent.
Source (n.) The rising from the ground, or beginning, of a stream of water or the like; a spring; a fountain.
Source (n.) That from which anything comes forth, regarded as its cause or origin; the person from whom anything originates; first cause.
Sourcrout (n.) See Sauerkraut.
Sourde (v. i.) To have origin or source; to rise; to spring.
Souring (n.) Any sour apple.
Sourish (a.) Somewhat sour; moderately acid; as, sourish fruit; a sourish taste.
Sourkrout (n.) Same as Sauerkraut.
Sourly (adv.) In a sour manner; with sourness.
Sourness (n.) The quality or state of being sour.
Sours (n.) Source. See Source.
Soursop (n.) The large succulent and slightly acid fruit of a small tree (Anona muricata) of the West Indies; also, the tree itself. It is closely allied to the custard apple.
Sourwood (n.) The sorrel tree.
Sous (n.) Alt. of Souse
Souse (n.) A corrupt form of Sou.
Souse (n.) Pickle made with salt.
Souse (n.) Something kept or steeped in pickle; esp., the pickled ears, feet, etc., of swine.
Souse (n.) The ear; especially, a hog's ear.
Souse (n.) The act of sousing; a plunging into water.
Soused (imp. & p. p.) of Souse
Sousing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Souse
Souse (v. t.) To steep in pickle; to pickle.
Souse (v. t.) To plunge or immerse in water or any liquid.
Souse (v. t.) To drench, as by an immersion; to wet throughly.
Souse (v. t.) To swoop or plunge, as a bird upon its prey; to fall suddenly; to rush with speed; to make a sudden attack.
Souse (v. t.) To pounce upon.
Souse (n.) The act of sousing, or swooping.
Souse (adv.) With a sudden swoop; violently.
Souslik (n.) See Suslik.
Sout (n.) Soot.
Soutache (n.) A kind of narrow braid, usually of silk; -- also known as Russian braid.
Soutage (n.) That in which anything is packed; bagging, as for hops.
Soutane (n.) A close garnment with straight sleeves, and skirts reaching to the ankles, and buttoned in front from top to bottom; especially, the black garment of this shape worn by the clergy in France and Italy as their daily dress; a cassock.
Souter (n.) A shoemaker; a cobbler.
Souterly (a.) Of or pertaining to a cobbler or cobblers; like a cobbler; hence, vulgar; low.
Souterrain (n.) A grotto or cavern under ground.
South (n.) That one of the four cardinal points directly opposite to the north; the region or direction to the right or direction to the right of a person who faces the east.
South (n.) A country, region, or place situated farther to the south than another; the southern section of a country.
South (n.) Specifically: That part of the United States which is south of Mason and Dixon's line. See under Line.
South (n.) The wind from the south.
South (a.) Lying toward the south; situated at the south, or in a southern direction from the point of observation or reckoning; proceeding toward the south, or coming from the south; blowing from the south; southern; as, the south pole.
South (adv.) Toward the south; southward.
South (adv.) From the south; as, the wind blows south.
Southed (imp. & p. p.) of South
Southing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of South
South (v. i.) To turn or move toward the south; to veer toward the south.
South (v. i.) To come to the meridian; to cross the north and south line; -- said chiefly of the moon; as, the moon souths at nine.
Southcottian (n.) A follower of Joanna Southcott (1750-1814), an Englishwoman who, professing to have received a miraculous calling, preached and prophesied, and committed many impious absurdities.
Southdown (a.) Of or pertaining to the South Downs, a range of pasture hills south of the Thames, in England.
Southdown (n.) A Southdown sheep.
Southeast (n.) The point of the compass equally distant from the south and the east; the southeast part or region.
Southeast (a.) Of or pertaining to the southeast; proceeding toward, or coming from, the southeast; as, a southeast course; a southeast wind.