soundness

[ Eng.sound, a.; -ne .] 1. The quality or state of being sound or unimpaired; heal you r ; sound condition or state. "A man would wish in the first place to enjoy vigor of limbs and soundne of constitution."-Search: Light of Nature, vol. i., pt. ii., ch. xxxiv. 2. Freedom from flaw, defect, imperfection, or decay; as, the soundne of timber. 3. Truth, rectitude; freedom from error or fallacy; correctne . "I will not answer for the acutene , much le for the soundne of his distinction."- Water land : Works , viii. 238. 4. Firmne , validity, strength, solidity, truth. "This presupposed, it may stand then very well with strength and soundne of reason, even thus to answer."Hooker: Eccles . Polity . 5. Severity, smartne ; as, the soundne of a thrashing. soup, subst . [ Fr.soupe =asop, pottage, or broth; cogn. with O. Dut.sop , zop =broth; soppe , zoppe =a sop: Sw. soppa =a sop; Ger. suppe ; Dan. suppe . Allied to sup (q. v.).] 1. A kind of broth or food made generally by boiling flesh of some kind in water with various other ingredients. Soups are of numerous varieties; as, gravy- soup , hare- soup , turtle- soup , . "Let the cook daub the back of the footman's new livery; or, when he is going up with a dish of soup , let her follow him softly with a ladle-full."- Swift : Directions to Servants. 2. A sup; a sip or small quantity; also, a considerable quantity of any thin food. ( Scotch .) Portable soup : A sort of cake formed of concentrated soup, freed from fat, and, by long-continued boiling, from all the putrescible parts.