sordioust (sordius)

[L. sordes, dirt, + -ous.] Filthy; foul. dus, deaf, mute: see surd.] In music, damped with a mute: as, clarinet to sordo, a damped or muffled clarinet; tromba sorda, a damped or muffled trumpet. sordo no (sôr-dōnō), n.; pl. sordoni (-ni). [ The sordor of civilisation, mix'd With all the savage which man's fall hath fix'd. Byron, The Island, ii. 4.