softening machine (sofningmashen")

In leather- manuf., a machine for treating dry hides with water to prepare them for the tan-pits, and also for treating sheepskins, etc., with oil. soft-eyed (soft'id), a. Having soft, gentle, or tender eyes. Give Virtue scandal, Innocence a fear, Or from the soft - eyed virgin steal a tear! Pope , Prol. to Satires, 1. 286. soft-finned (sôft'find), a. In ichth ., having no fin-spines; spinele ; an acanthine; mala copter ous; malacopterygian. See Malacopterygii . soft-gra (sôft grås), n . See Holcus . soft-handed (soft'han ded), a. Having soft hands. Hence, figuratively - (a) Unused and therefore unable to work. (b) Not firm in rule, discipline, or the like: as, a soft - handed kind of justice.