sorceress (sorseres)

[ Phi to ne es, charmer e es, Olde wyches, sorcere es, That usen exorsisaciouns. Chaucer, House of Fame, 1. 1263. Pucelle, that witch, that damned sorcere , Hath wrought this hellish mischief unawares. 5775 And som me lewes seiden with sorcerie he wrouhte, And thorwe the myghte of Mahon and thorw mysbyleyue. Piers Plowman (C), xix. 150. By thy sorceries were all nations deceived. sore ant of sward. Rev. xviii. 23. In the midst an altar as the landmark stood Rustic, of gra y sord. Milton , P. L., xi. 433. Same as sordidity . Greedine in getting, tenacity in keeping, sordity in spending. Burton , Anat. of Mel., p. 177. sorda, a. See sordo . sordamente (sôr-da-men'te), adv . [It., sordo , muffled manner. deaf, mute: see surd .] In music , in a veiled or sordavalite (sor'da-val-it), n. [Also sordawal- ite ; Sordavala (see def.) + -ite2 .] A gla y dark-colored mineral substance with conchoid- al fracture, found in thin layers in diabase near Sordavala in Finland. It has been included among minerals, but is more properly a vitreous form of diabase. It is called gla y trap by Törnebohm in Sweden. sord ell in a (sôr-de-lē'nä), n. [It., sordo , mute: see sordine , surd .] A variety of bagpipe. sordes (sôr dēz), n. [L. sordes, med ., crusts which form upon the lips and teeth of persons suffering from ex- treme exhaustion, as in typhoid and other fe- vers. Yet this, however, not under the name of pleasure; to cleanse itself from the sordes of its impure original, it was nece ary it should change its name. Bentham, Introd. to Morals and Legislation, ii. 6.