snugness

[Eng.snug; -ne .] The quality or state of being snug. IMG:content-1670.png:[blocks in formation] 1. In that manner or degree; in such manner or to such degree as is indicated in any way, or is implied, or is supposed to be known. "Give thanks you have lived so long." Shakesp.: Tempest, i. 1. 2. In like manner or degree; in the way that; for like reason. (Used correlatively with as preceding to denote comparison or resemblance.) " As whom the fables feign a monstrous size, Titanian or earthborn that warred on Jove, So stretched out huge in length the arch-fiend lay." Milton : P. L., i. 197. snŭf-fleş, s. pl . [SNUFFLE.] Obstruction of the nose by mucus, an affection occurring in man and correlatively with as or that following.) 3. In such a manner; to such a degree. (Used IMG:content-1671.png:[blocks in formation] "The shop of a snuffman of the present day."- Savage : R. Medlicott, bk. iii., ch. i. snuff-ỹ, a. [Eng. snuff (1), s.; -y.] 1. Resembling snuff in color. 2. Soiled with snuff; smelling of snuff. 3. Offended, displeased, huffed. ( Scotch .) snŭg, v. i. & t. [SNUG, a.] A. In trans.: To lie close; to snuggle; to make one's self snug. "We snugged up for the night."- Field , Dec. 9. 1885. B. Trans.: To put in a snug position; to place snugly. snug, a . & s. [Icel. snöggr=smooth, said of wool or hair; O. Sw.snygg short-haired, trimmed, neat; Sw. snygg cleanly, neat, genteel; Norw. snögg = short, quick; Dan.snög=neat, smart.] A. As adjective : 1. Lying close; closely pre ed. *2. Close, concealed; not exposed to view. "When you lay snug to snap young Damon's goats." Dryden: Virgil ; Ecl . iii. 24. chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; " So frowned the mighty combatants, that hell Grew darker." Milton: P. L. , ii. 719. It was formerly used with an infinitive, but without as , to denote the effect or result.. " So proud thy service to despise." Shakesp.: Sonnet 149. 4. In such a manner, or to such a degree, as cannot very well be expre ed; in a high degree, very much, extremely; as, You are so good. ( Colloq .) 5. In the same degree; with as . " So soon was she along as he was down." Shakesp.: Venus and Adonis, 43. 6. As has been said or stated; used with reflex reference to something just a erted or implied; used to imply the sense of a preceding word or sentence, and to avoid repetition. "Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear; and it was so."-Genesis i. 9. 7. Likewise, as well, also. You have cause, so have we all, of joy." Shakesp.: Tempest, ii. 1. 8. For this reason; on these terms or conditions; consequently, therefore, on this account, accordingly. "God makes him in his own image an intellectua creature, and so capable of dominion." -Locke . 9. Be it so; so let it be; it is well; it is good; it is all right. Used to supply the place of a sentence, and to expre acquiescence, a ent, or approbation. "If it be my luck, so . "-Shakesp.: Merry Wives, iii. 4. sin, aş; expect, Xenophon, exist. ph = f "Have a score of knaves or so . " Shakesp.: Taming of the Shrew , i. 2. IMG:content-1672.png:[blocks in formation] water or other fluid; one who or that which by soaping it. drenches thoroughly. "In the next place, by a good natur'd man, is usually meant, neither more nor le than a good fellow, a pain- ful, able, and laborious soaker , one who owes all his good nature to the pot and the pipe." -South : Sermons, vol. vi., ser. 3. sōak'-ing, pr . par., a. & s. [SOAK.] A. As pr . par .: (See the verb.) IMG:content-1673.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1674.png:[blocks in formation] "While moist Arcturus soak'd the vales below." Fawkes : A poll on . Rhodius ; Argonautics ii. 3. To draw in by the pores, as the skin. "Suppling thy stiffen'd joints with fragrant oil; Then in thy spacious garden walk awhile, To suck the moisture up and soak it in." 1. Flattery. ( Slang .) 2. Money. ( Slang .) Bot.: Various species of Cesalpinia. soap-suds, s. pl . Water impregnated with soap; IMG:content-1675.png:[blocks in formation] includes all compounds of an organic acid with a metallic or organic base. Commercially, it is a detergent substance, consisting of the pota ium and sodium salts of the fatty acids derived from animal or vegetable oils and fats, and prepared by boiling the neutral fat, such as tallow, palm oil, or olive oil, with caustic soda or potash, until saponi- fication (q. v.) is complete. To separate the soap from the exce of alkali and glycerin, a weak solu- tion of common salt is added, and the boiling con- tinued for a certain time. The soap being thereby rendered insoluble in the lye, rises to the top in the form of a granular ma or curd, and is ladled out or run off into frames, where it cools and solidifies. Hard soaps are compounds of the fatty acids and soda, the best known being curd and yellow soaps, the latter containing a small percentage of rosin. A good hard soap should contain not more than 26 per cent, water, 7 per cent. soda, and 66 per cent. of fatty acids. Soft soap is a combination of potash, or potash and soda, with the fatty acids derived from the drying oils, such as whale-oil, seal-oil, linseed-oil, . It is soft and pasty to the touch, and di olves more readily in water than hard soap. 2. Pharm .: Medicinal soap is an antacid and slightly aperient, but is used chiefly as an adjunct to other drugs, or in the manufacture of pills. [CASTILE-SOAP.] Bot.: The genus Quillaia (q. v.). soap-boiler, s . 1. One whose trade is to manufacture soap. "A soap-boiler condoles with me on the duties on cas- IMG:content-1676.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1677.png:[blocks in formation] soaringly "Their summits to heaven Shoot soaringly forth." Byron: Manfred, i. 1. sō-a-vê, sō-a-vê-men-tê, adv . [Ital.=sweet, sweetly., Music: A direction that the piece to which it is IMG:content-1678.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Calmly, quietly; without exce of enthusi mark of socage is the having its renders or services asm; temperately. IMG:content-1679.png:[blocks in formation] gently.