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[SALICYLATE OF SODA.] ing, Sodom.] Sodom, s. [Gr. Sodoma; Heb. Sedom a burn Script. Geog.: One of the wicked cities of the plain destroyed by fire from heaven. (Gen. xix. 24, 25.) Sodom-apple, s. [APPLE, I. 4.] Sod-om-ite, s. [Eng. Sodom ; -ite .] 1. An inhabitant of Sodom. 2. One given to or guilty of sodomy. sod o-mit-Ic-al, a. [Eng. sodom it (e); -ical.] Pertaining or relating to sodomy. sod-o-mỹ, s . [ Fr.sodomie , from Sodomie =Sodom, from the crime being imputed to the inhabitants of Sodom. An unnatural crime; carnal copulation against nature. sõe, sō, s . [A.S.saa ; Fr. seau : Ger. sau , saw .] A tub with two handles, carried by means of a pole pa ing through the handles; a large wooden ve el for water. "Filde ther a muckel so ." - Hagelok , 932. sõe-fül, s. [Eng. soe; ful(1).] As much as a soe will hold. "Then for one basonful you may fetch up so many soe fuls ." H. More: Antidote against Atheism , pt. i., bk. ii. ch. vi. Soem-mer-ing, s. [Dr. Samuel Thomas So emmer ing. a German anatomist (1755-1830).] (See etym. and compound.) So emmer ing's gazelle, s . Zoology : Antilope so emmer ing i i , from Eastern Aby in i a. It is about thirty inches high, sandy fawn above, with ma ive lyrate horns, which are the Aby in i an Mohr to distinguish it from the more slender in the female. It is sometimes called Mohror Mhorr ( Antilope mohr ), an allied species in Western Africa. So emmer ing's mirror, subst . An instrument for drawing objects under the microscope. It is a plane mirror of polished steel, le in diameter than the pupil of the eye, supported opposite the focus of the eyepiece. It inverts the objects. ( Griffith & Henfrey .) sō ěvěr, adv . [Eng. so , and ever .] A word used in composition with pronouns or adverbs to extend or emphasize the meaning; as, whosoever , whatso ever , wheresoever. It is sometimes separated from its pronoun; as, "What bloody work soever ." (Shakesp.: Othello , iii. 3.) sofa, *sō-phạ, s . [Arab. suffat , suffah =a sofa, a couch, from saffa =to draw up in line, to put a seat to a saddle; Fr. & Sp. sofa . ] A long stuffed couch, with seat, back, and ends upholstered. IMG:content-1687.png:[blocks in formation] sō-fi, s . [Pers. sufi, sófi ; cf. Gr. sophos =wise.] One of a religious order in Persia, also called Dervishes. [SOFISM.] sō-fişm, sû'-fişm, s. [SOFI.] Moham .: The mystical and pantheistic doctrines of the Sofis. They consider that God alone exists; that He is in all nature, and that all nature is in Him, the visible universe being an emanation from His e ence. God is the real author of the deeds of men, and there is therefore no valid distinction between good and evil. The pa ages in the Koran which speak of a paradise and a hell are only allegorical. Man's soul existed before his body, and will transmigrate when he dies into other bodies till sufficiently purified to be absorbed into the Deity. soft, *softe, adj., adv., s. & interj. [A. S. softe = softly; O. Sax. sáfto; Ger. sanft; O. H. Ger. samfto.] A. As adjective: I. Ordinary Language: 1. Easily yielding to pre ure; yielding, impre i ble, easily penetrated; not hard or compact. "Hard and soft are names we give things, only in rela tion to the constitutions of our own bodies; that being called hard, which will put us to pain sooner than change figure, by the pre ure of any part of our bodies; and that soft , which changes the situation of its parts upon an easy touch." -Locke: Human Understanding , bk. ii., ch. iv. 2. Easily a uming or altered to a change of form; hence, easily worked, malleable. "Spirits can either sex a ume: so soft And uncompounded is their e ence pure." Milton : P. L., i. 424. 3. Easily yielding to pre ure, persuasion, or motives; impre ible, facile, weak, impre ionable. "A few divines of so soft and servile tempers as dis posed them to so sudden acting and compliance."- King IMG:content-1688.png:[blocks in formation] 6. Civil, complaisant, courteous; not rough, rude, or irritating. "A soft answer turneth away wrath."- Prov . xv. 1. 7. Mild, gentle, kind; easily moved by pity: lenient, not harsh or severe; susceptible of kindne , mercy, or other tender affections. "His mind was at best of too soft a temper for such work as he had now to do, and had been recently made softer by severe affliction." -Macaulay: Hist. Eng . , ch. xiv. 8. Gentle in action or motion; steady and even; not rough. nice effeminate; 9. Effeminate; not manly or spirited; viciously "And more than all, his blood-red flag aloft, He marvell'd how his heart could seem so soft." Byron: Corsair, i. 16. 10. Gentle, easy, undisturbed. "Her voice was ever soft , Gentle and low." Shakesp.: Lear, v. 3. marine; gō, pot, (2) Smooth to the taste; not sharp or acrid. (3) Not harsh or offensive to the sight; not strong or glaring; not exciting or offensive by intensity of color or violent contrast; as soft colors. (4) Agreeable to perceive or feel. "As sweet as balm, as soft as air. Shakesp.: Antony and Cleopatra , v. 2. (5) Smooth and agreeable to the touch; not rough, rugged, or harsh; delicate, fine. "What went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold they that wear soft clothing are in kings' houses." - Matthew xi. 8. Hence, applied to textile fabrics, as opposed to hardware; as, soft goods. 13. Foolish, simple, silly. 14. Readily forming a lather, and washing well with soap; as soft water. II. Pronun.: Not pronounced with a hard, explosive utterance, but with more or le of a sibilant sound; as the cincinder , and the g in gin , as distinguished from the same letters in candle and gift. IMG:content-1689.png:[blocks in formation] " Soft! no haste!" Shakesp.: Merchant of Venice, iv. 1. To have a soft thing : To have a prospect of certain succe in an undertaking. To tread softly is an art which is acquired from the dancing-master; to go gently is a voluntary act; we may go a gentle or a quick pace at pleasure. Words are either soft or gentle; a soft word falls lightly upon the person to whom it is addre ed; it does not excite any angry sentiment. A censure, an admonition, or a hint is gentle which bears indirectly on the offender, and does not expose the whole of his infirmity to view; a prudent friend will always try to correct our errors by gentle rem on strances. Persons, or their manners, are termed soft and gentle , but still with a similar distinction; a soft addre , a soft air, and the like are becoming or not, according to the sex: in that which is de nominated the softer sex, these qualities of softne are characteristic excellencies: but even in this sex they may degenerate, by their exce , into insipidity; and in the male sex they are compatible only in a small degree with manly firmne of carriage. Gentle manners are becoming in all persons who take a part in social life; gentlene is, in fact, that due medium of softne which is alike suitable to both sexes, and which it is the object of polite education to produce. ( Crabbe .) Soft is largely used in compounds, the meanings being in most cases sufficiently obvious; as, soft breathing. IMG:content-1690.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1691.png:[blocks in formation] soft-tortoises, s. pl. [MUD-TORTOISES.] *soft, v . t . [SOFT, a.] To make soft; to soften. sof-taş, s . pl . [From Pers. soukte =burnt, meaning consumed by the divine love and devoted to a life of meditation.] Mohammedanism: The pupils who study Mu ul. man law and theology in the medri as or secondary schools attached to the mosques. They are boarded in the imarets or free hotels kept up with the revenues of the vakouf property or pious leg a their families, if these are in a position to do so, if cies. Their clothing and bedding are furnished by not by charity. The number of softas is very great, because they are exempt from military service. After long study of the Arabic language, the Koran, and its commentaries, they pa an examination, which is almost always succe ful, and which authorizes them to a ume the title of khodjas (q. v.) The name is also applied to all the cla es Khodjas, and students of theology or of the jurisconnected with the mosques: Ulemas. Imams, prudence of the Koran. Most of them are distinguishable by wearing a white turban around their fez. The Sultan Abdul Medjid (1839-1861) endeavored to induce his subjects to wear a European dre , and succeeded so far that almost every one, except the very lowest in the public service, adopted it. But the softas, to a man, retain the old-fashioned baggy, slouching dre which Abdul Medjid wished to get rid of. This is an indication of the conservatism of the cla . In May, 1876, the softas were the authors of a revolution at Constantinople, their chief seat; they dictated the dismi al of the grand vizier, and were obeyed. Afterward they made a movement against the sultan himself. soft-en ( t silent), v. t. & i. [Eng. soft, a.; -en.] A. Transitive: 1. To make soft or more soft; to make le hard. 2. To make le harsh, severe, rude, or offensive. "The language was much softened."-Macauiay: Hist. Eng ., ch. xv. 3. To make le fierce, cruel, or intractable; to make more susceptible of humane or fine feelings; to mollify. "But though wine at first seemed to soften his heart, the effect a few hours later was very different." - Ма caulay: Hist . Eng ., ch. iv. 4. To palliate; to represent as le enormous; to reduce in degree. C. As substantive: soho 1. Ord. Lang . & Pathol .: The act of making soft or softer; the state of becoming soft or softer, In Pathology there is softening of the bones [MOLLITIES), of the brain [1], of the spinal cord, and of the stomach. 2. Paint.: The blending of colors into each other. Softening of the brain: Pathology : A disease of which there are three forms: (1) The white, or atrophic, softening, occurs in the white substance of the hemispheres. It with other diseases in weakly persons approaching arises from imperfect nutrition, and often occurs old age. (2) Red softening, formerly attributed to prior inflammation, may arise from the abrupt obstruction of an artery; and (3) Yellow softening, an idiopathic disease, local around an inflamed spot, an apoplectic clot, .; it soon runs a fatal course.