soul vexed (solvekst)

Disturbed or distre ed in spirit. Shak., W. T., v. 1. 59. soum, sowm (soum), n. [Avar. of sum2, amount, proportion: seesum2.] The proportion of cattle or sheep suitable to any pasture, or vice vers a: as, a soum of sheep, as many sheep as a certain amount of pasturage will support; a soum of gra or land, as much as will pasture one cow or five sheep. [Scotch.] soum, sowm (soum), v. i. [ and rouming, in Scots law, the action whereby the number of cattle to be brought upon a common by the persons respectively having a servitude of pasturage may be ascertained. The criterion is the number of cattle which each of the dominant proprietors is able to fodder during winter. Strictly speaking, to soum a common is to ascertain the several soums it may hold, and to roum it is to portion it out among the dominant proprietors. soun1t, v. An obsolete variant of swoon. soun2t, n. andr. An original spelling of soundő. sound (sound), a. and n. [ Ef horn child is hol and sund, And Athulf bithute [without] wund. King Horn (E. E. T. S.), p. 38. Thaugh he falle, he falleth nat bote as ho fulle in a bote, That ay is saf and sounde that sitteth with-ynne the borde. Piers Plowman (C), xi. 40. Universal distrust is so unnatural, indeed, that it never prevails in a sound mind. Channing , Perfect Life, p. 101. 2. Whole; uninjured; unhurt; unmutilated; not lacerated or bruised: as, a sound limb. Thou dost breathe; Hast heavy substance; bleed'st not; speak'st; art sound. Shak., Lear, iv. 6. 52. 3. Free from special defect, decay, or injury; unimpaired; not deteriorated: as, a sound ship; sound fruit; a sound constitution. The men... give sound strokes with their clubs wherewith they fight. Abp . Abbot . 11. Of financial condition, solvent; strong; not undermined by lo or waste: as, that bank is one of our soundest institutions. As sound as a roach. See roach 2. Sound and disposing mind and memory, in the law of wills . See memory. - Sound mind. See insanity. - Sound on the goose. See goose . =Syn. 1. Hearty, hale, hardy, vigorous.-3. Entire, un- broken, undecayed. - 5 and 7. Sane, rational, sensible. II. n. Safety. [Rare.] Our goddis the gouerne, & soc he grace lene That thou the victorie wyn, thi worship to saue, And to this Citie in sound thi seluyn may come. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 6135. sound1+(sound), v. [ sound1 , a.] I. trans. To heal; make sound. Ferther wol I never founde Non other help, my sores for to sounde . Chaucer, Anelida and Arcite, 1. 242. II. in trans. To become sound; heal. Thro girt with mony a wounde, That lykly ar never for to sounde . Lydgate , Complaint of the Black Knight, 1. 292. sound1 (sound), adr. [ So sound he slept that nought mought him awake. Spenser, F. Q., I. i. 42. Till he tell the truth, Let the supposed fairies pinch him sound . Shak ., M. W. of W., iv. 4. 61. Every soul throughout the town being sound asleep before nine o'clock. Irving , Knickerbocker, p. 175. sound2 (sound), n. [ , sont , zond = MHG.G.sund = Icel. Sw. Dan. sund , a sound), also, in AS. and Icel., swimming; contracted from orig. * swumd , swimman (pp. swummen ) , swim: see swim . Cf. sound3.] A narrow pa age of water not a stream, as a strait between the mainland and an isle, or a strait connecting two seas, or connecting a sea or lake with the ocean: as, Long Island Sound ; the Sound (between Denmark and Sweden). Behold, I come, sent from the Stygian sound , As a dire vapour. B. Jonson, Cat i line, i. 1. And, with my skates fast-bound, Skimmed the half-frozen Sound. IMG:content-1591.png:[blocks in formation] sound