soda cracker (sodakrak" er)

A kind of cracker or biscuit, consisting of flour and water, with a little salt, bicarbonate of soda, and cream of tartar, made into a stiff dough, rolled thin, and cut into squares. [U. S.] The eccentric old telegraph editor... kept a colony of white mice in a squirrel-cage, feeding them upon soda crackers and milk. The Century , XXXVIII. 875. (unor soda-feldspar (sō' (sō'dä-feld spär), n. See feldspar. soda-fountain (sō'da-foun tān), n. 1. A metal or marble structure containing water charged with carbonic-acid gas (or containing materials for its production), with faucets through which the water can be drawn off. Soda-fountains commonly contain tanks for flavoring-syrups and a reservoir for ice.-2. A strong metal ve el lined with gla or other non-corrosible material, used to store and transport water charged with carbonic-acid gas under pre ure. soda-furnace (so'da-fèr nās), n. A furnace for converting into the carbonate, by fusing with chalk and slaked lime or small coal, the sulphate of soda obtained by treating common salt with sulphuric acid. In a usual form the cylinder which receives the charge is heated red-hot before being filled, and is caused to rotate by appropriate mechanism. E. H. Knight. sodaic (so-dā'ik), a. [ IMG:content-1462.png:[blocks in formation] sodden1 (sod'n), p . a. [ salt1 , 1.-Sodium line, the bright-yellow line (strict- AS. soden: see seethe .] 1. Boiled; seethed. And also brede, soddyn egges, and somtyme other vyt aylles. Sir R. Guylforde , Pylgrymage, p. 17. Which diuined by the blade-bones of sheepe, sodde and then burnt to powder. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 414. 2. Soaked and softened, as in water; soaked through and through; soggy; pulpy; pultaceous; of bread, not well baked; doughy. It had ceased to rain, but the earth was sodden , and the pools and rivulets were full. Charlotte Bronte, Shirley, iv. 3. Having the appearance of having been subjected to long boiling; parboiled; bloated; soaked or saturated, as with drink. Double your files! as you were! faces about! Now, you with the sodden face, keep in there! Beau. and Fl ., Knight of Burning Pestle, v. 2. sodden2 (sod'n), v. [ sodden1 , p.a.] I. in trans. 1. To be seethed or soaked; settle down as if by seething or boiling. It [avarice] takes as many shapes as Proteus, and may be called above all the vice of middle life, that soddens into the gangrene of old age, gaining strength by vanMrs. S. C. Hall . quishing all virtues. 2. To become soft, as by rotting. (Unique.) They never fail who die In a great cause: the block may soak their gore; Their heads may sodden in the sun. Byron, Marino Faliero, ii. 2. II. trans. To soak; fill the ti ues of with water, as in the proce of seething; saturate. Clothes... soddened with wet. IMG:content-1463.png:[blocks in formation]