sorel (sor)

[Sc. sair, sare; Than waxes his gast seke and sare . Hampole , Pricke of Conscience, 1. 772 (Morris and Skeat). He maketh sore , and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole. Job v. 18. Why art thou then exasperate, thou idle immaterial skein of sleave-silk, thou green sarcenet flap for a sore eye? Shak., T. and C., v. 1. 36. 2. Inflicting physical suffering; giving bodily pain. Merlin frusht a-monge hem with his banere, and his companye with hym, and leyde on sore strokes. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 207. There's a sair pain in my head, father, There's a sair pain in my side. Fair Janet (Child's Ballads, II. 89). 3. Suffering mental pain; distre ed; painfully sensitive; touchy. Peace is my dear delight-not Fleury's more; But touch me, and no minister so sore . Pope, Imit. of Horace, II. i. 76. Why speak I vain words to a heart still sore With sudden death of happine ? William Morris, Earthly Paradise, III. 94. 4. Bringing sorrow, misery, or regret; distre ing; grievous; oppre ive. A sore word for them that are negligent in discharging their office. Latimer , Sermon of the Plough. He laid a Tax full hard and sore, Tho' many Men were sick. Prior, The Viceroy, st. 12. Sore task to hearts worn out by many wars. Tennyson, Lotos-Eaters, Choric Song. 5. A ociated with painful ideas or feelings; accompanied by grief, anger, mortification, regret, discomfort, or the like; serving as an occasion of bitterne : as, a sore subject. The sore terms we stand upon with the gods will be strong with us for giving over. Shak ., Pericles, iv. 2. 37. I wish he were a wee bairn lying in my arms again. It were a sore day when I weaned him. Mrs. Gaskell, The Crooked Branch. IMG:content-1557.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1558.png:[blocks in formation] saure , or simply saure , a sorrel horse) = It. soro , sauro , a sorrel horse, formerly also a sore-fal- con: see the adj. Cf. sorrel2 .] I. a. Reddish- Ther was sobbing, siking, and sor , Handes wringing, and drawing bi hor. 2. A wounded or diseased spot on an animal body; a painful or painfully tender place, with or without solution of continuity, on or near the surface of the body. There is no medcyn on mold, sane the maiden one, That my sors might salue, ne me sound make. What should we speak more on 't?... I love no rip- Brome , Northern La , iii. 1. age, sore- eagle , sore - falcon , sore - hawk . Stedis stabillede in stall is, Lyarde and sore. MS . Lincoln A. 1. 17, f. 130. ( Hall i well .) II. n. 1. A hawk of the first year.-2. A buck of the fourth year. See sorrel2 , 3. Of founes, sowres , bukkes, does Was ful the wode, and many roes. sorest, v. i. An obsolete spelling of soar1 . sore a get, n. Same as sorage . Sorecidæ (sō-res'i-dē), n. pl . [NL.] An erro- IMG:content-1559.png:[blocks in formation] soredial (sō-rē'di-al), a. [ -al .] In lichenol ., of the nature or appearance of a soredium.Soredial branch, in lichenol ., a branch sorediate (sō-re'di-āt), a. [ soredium + -ate1.] In lichenol ., bearing or producing soredia. sorediferous (sor-e-dif'e-rus), a . [ sore- dium + L. ferre = E. bear1.] In lichenol ., sore- diate; bearing soredia. exposed to pre ure by lying in bed. It may be very deep and extensive. Also called decubitus . - Delhi sore, Ori-soredium (sō-re'di-um), n.; pl. soredia (-a). ental sore. Same as Aleppo ulcer (which see, under ulcer). Fun gating sore, a soft chancre with abundant granulations.-Hunter i an sore, in pathol ., a true or hard chancre. - Venereal sore. Same as chancroid. sorel (sor), adv . [Sc. sair , sare ; sare , sorely, painfully, = OS. sēro = MD. sere , D. zeer = MLG. sēre = OHG. sēro, MHG. sēre , sēr , painfully, sorely, strongly, very, G. sehr , extremely, very, = Dan. saare , extremely, very; from the adj.] 1. With phys- ical suffering; so as to cause bodily pain; pain- fully. He rode ouer hym that was fallen and vn-horsed, so that he brosed hym sore . Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 696. Ps. xxxviii. 2. Her brother struck her wondrous sore , With cruel strokes and many. The dame sell ansuerde in baas voyce sore syghinge. Merlin (E. E. T. §.), iii. 611. But sore it ached, and fast it beat, When that ill news was told. Thei sought hym sore vp and down on euery side. Merlin (E. E. T. Š.), iii. 407. IMG:content-1560.png:[blocks in formation] [NL., σωρός , a heap, + -edium , for Gr. -ίδιον , a dim. suffix.] In lichenol ., a single algal cell or a group of algal cells wrapped in more or le hyphal ti ue, which serves the purpose of ve- getative propagation: commonly in the plural. Such cells form little heaps or cushion-like ma es breaking through the surface of the thallus, and when set free from the thallus are able to grow at once into new thalli. Usually one species of alga furnishes all the algal cells of a lichen; more rarely two, and then one prevails in abundance over the other. The same species of alga, however, may be found in consortism with different species of fungus, and taking part in the composition, therefore, of differently formed thalli-that is, different lichens. See Lichenes. Also sorede and brood - bud . Milton, On Def. of Humb. Remonst. sore-eyed (sor'id), a . 1. Having sore eyes.- 2. Having orbital caruncles, as if sores: as, the sore- eyed pigeon. See cut under sheathbill . sore-falcon (sor'fa kn), n. [Formerly also soar- falcon , soare faulcon ; sore2 + falcon , tr. OF. faucon sor .] A falcon of the first year; a young falcon. See sore2 , 1. That flags awhile her fluttering wings beneath, Till she her selfe for stronger flight can breath. Spenser, Hymn of Heavenly Beauty, 1. 26. sore-hawkt (sōr'hak), n. Same as sore - falcon . sorehead (sor'hed), n. 1. One whose head is sore. Hence-2. An irritable, discontented person; one who has a real or fancied griev- ance; in political use, a person who is di at is- fied through lack of recognition or reward for party services. [Slang, U. S.] Every sore- head and bolter in the Majority voted with his party. The American , X. 35. The public don't care for a few soreheads and impracti- cables in an operation that is going to open up the whole Southwest. C. D. Warner, Little Journey in the World, xv. soreheaded (sor'hed"ed), a. Having the char- acter of a sorehead; discontented; having a grievance. [Slang, sorehon sorehont (sor'hon), n. rupted form equiv. to Sc. sorn, a contracted form of ME. sojorne , a sojourn, sojourn, as a verb so- journ: see sojour sojourn, sorn .] In Ireland, a tax for- merly imposed upon tenants for the mainten- ance of their lord or his men: a custom which required a tenant to maintain his chieftain gra- tuitously. See the second quotation. Yea, and the ver ye wilde Irish exactions, as Coignye, Liverye, Sorehon , and such like, by which they pole and utterly undoe the poore tennants and free-houlders. sorelt. An old spelling of sorrell , sorrel2. sorelyt (sor'li), a . [ME. sarlie , sārlic , sār , sore, + -lic , E. -ly2.] Sore; sorrowful. Layamon, 1. 28457. 2. [ cap .] [NL. (Michel i, 1729).] A former ge- nus of gra es, of the tribe Andropogoncæ , now included as a subgenus in Andropogon (Edou- ard Hackel, 1889). Like the rest of the genus, it has one-flowered spikelets disposed in pairs at the joints of a rachis, one of each pair pedicel led, one se ile. The se ile spikelet is in all the pairs alike; the flower is fertile, and in the pedicel led spike- lets male, neutral, or abortive. The rachis is fragile, or in culture tenacious; its joints IMG:content-1561.png:[blocks in formation] sorgo (sorgō), n. sori, n. Plural of sorus. Soricide (sō-ris'i-dē), n. pl. [NL., Sorex (Soric-) + -idæ.] A family of small insectiv- orous mammals, the shrews. They are of terres- trial, sometimes natatorial, habits, with a long and narrow skull without zygomatic arches or postorbital proce es, annular tympanic bones, no symphysis pubis, the fore limbs not specially modified as in the moles, the tibia and fibula united, and the lower teeth 12 (in one genus 12 IMG:content-1562.png:[blocks in formation] sormountet, v . An obsolete variant of surmount . sorn (sôrn), v . i. [Said to be contr. sojor- nen , sojourn: 1: see sojourn . Cf. sorehon.] To ob- IMG:content-1563.png:[ocr errors][merged small][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed] Soricident Teeth of Common Shrew ( Sorex vul- garis ), enlarged seven times. 11, large two-pronged anterior upper incisor; 12, 13, 14, succeeding upper incisors, to mpx , line of obliterated maxillopremaxillary suture; c, first maxillary tooth, technically a canine, unspecial- ized and resembling the preceding incisor , pm , minute first premolar; pm2 , large sectorial pre- molar. In the lower jaw, 1, very large serrated anterior incisor; 2, 3, 4, following teeth to the one opposite pm2; other teeth omitted. termination of the position of the suture has shown, how- ever, that several other pairs of teeth besides the special- ized median upper pair are inserted in the premaxillary, and are therefore incisors; that the foremost pair of max- illary teeth (technically canines) are never specialized, and always small, and that these are followed by one or two pairs of premolars, constantly succeeded by three pairs of true molars. The constancy in number of the under teeth (twelve, with some anomalous exceptions) is also remark- able, and the total variation is only from twenty-six to thirty-two among all the genera. The eight upper incisors of several genera are a number unique among placental mammals; and the soricident dentition is, on the whole, in proportion to the size of the animals, the most formidable known among mammals, of greater relative power than that of any carnivore. See Soricida . IMG:content-1564.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1565.jpg:[blocks in formation] sornar (sôr'när), n. sorner (sôr'ner), n. [ Scots law , one who takes lodging and food from others by force or menaces without paying for it. This offense was formerly so prevalent in Scotland that the severest penalties were enacted against it, and at one period it was punishable with death. sorophore (so'rō-for), n. [NL. *sorophorum, neut. of * sorophorus : see sorophorous .] In bot . , the mucilaginous cord or cushion which is emit- ted from the germinating sporocarp in Marsi- lea , and which bears the sori arranged in two IMG:content-1566.png:[blocks in formation] sororially (sō-rō'ri-al-i), a. [ sororial for so- roral + -ly2.] In a sisterly manner. [Rare.] "This way then, my dear sister," cried Jane to the new- comer, and, taking her sororially by the hand, she led her forth from the oak parlour. T. Hook , The Sutherlands. (Davies.) so roric i del (sō-ror'i-sīd), n. [L. sororicida , cædere , kill.] One who kills his sister. Blount , Glo ographia. sororicide2 (sō-ror'i-sīd), n. [ sororicidium , soror , sister, + -cidium , Bailey , 1727. sororize (sõ'ror-īz), v . i.; pret. and pp. sororized , ppr. sororizing . [ soror , sister, + -ize : simu- lating fraternize.] To a ociate as sisters; be in communion or sympathy as sisters. [Rare.] The beautiful girls are rustic maidenhoods of their parishes. Mortimer Collins , Thoughts in my Garden, II. 3. ( Encyc . sororyt (so'ror-i), n. [L. soror , sister: see sister.] A sisterhood. [Rare.] While heauen did daigne the world should him inioy, The ninefold Sorory themselves exiled, Tourneur , Transformed Metamorphosis, st. 68. * sorosus , sorus , q. v.] sorose (sō'rōs), a. [ bot . , bearing sori. sorosis (sō-rō'sis), n.; pl. soroses (-sēz). [NL., σωρός , a heap.] In bot . , a fleshy multiple fruit composed of many flowers, wers, seed-ve els, and receptacles consolidated, as in the pine- IMG:content-1567.png:[graphic] IMG:content-1568.png:[blocks in formation] 3. A buck of the third year. Compare sore2 , n ., 2. A Bucke the first yeare is a Fawne; the second yeare a Pricket; the third yeare a Sorrel . Return from Parna us (1606), ii. 5. The dogs did yell: put L to sore, then sorel jumps from thicket. Shak., L. L. L., iv. 2. 60. sorrel-sopst (sor'el-sops), n. pl. A term used in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries for some sort of drink used in fevers. sorrel-tree (sor'el-trē), n. See Oxydendrum . sorrel-vine (sor'el-vin), n. A shrub, Ci us (Vi- tis ) acid a , found in tropical America, reaching into Florida. It is a low tendril-bearing climber, with acid juice. sorrily (sor'i-li), adv . [ soryly , sorili, sori- liche , sariliche , sarili ; sorry + -ly 2.] In a sorry manner, in any sense of the word; sorrowfully; sadly; wretchedly; poorly; meanly. sorga , soroga = MD. sorg , D. zorg sō-rot'rō-kä), n . pl . [NL. (Ehren pl. of so rot roch us : see sorotrochous .] berg), neut. pl. o An order of Rotifer a , containing those wheel- animalcules whose wheel-organ is divided or compound: distinguished from Monotroch a . so rot roch i an (sō-rō-tro'ki-an), a. and n. [ divided; any member of the Sorotrocha . sorotrochous (sō-rot'rō-kus), a. [ chus , σωρός , a heap, + τροχός , a wheel, τρέχειν , run.] Having the wheel-organ divided or compound, as a rotifer; not monotroch ous. sorra, n. See sorrow , n ., 4. sorites (sō-ri'tēz), n.; pl. sorites. [NL., sorites , σωρείτης , σωρίτης , a logical sophism formed by an accumulation of arguments, lit. 'heaper,' σωρεύειν , heap, σωρός , a heap. In def. 2 first used by Laurentius Valla (died 1457).] 1. A kind of sophism invented by Chrysippus sorra get, n. See sorage . in the third century before Christ, by which a sorrancet, n. Same as sorance . person is led by gradual steps from maintainsorrell (sor'el), n. [Early mod. E. also sor- rell, sorel, sorell; sorel , sorel , F. su- relle (ML. surella ), sorrel, so named from its sour taste; with dim. -el, sur , sour, sharp, sūr , G. sauer , sour: see sour1 . Cf. AS. süre (=MLG. süre = Icel. sūra = (with dim. sorge , care, anxiety, sorge Icel. Sw. Dan. sorg , care, = Goth. saúrga , care, grief; cf. Lith. sirgti , be ill, suf- fer. Not connected etymologically with sorel or sorry .] 1. Distre of mind caused by mis- fortune, injury, lo , disappointment, or the like; grief; misery; sadne ; regret. Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak Whispers the o'er-fraught heart, and bids it break. 2. A cause or occasion of grief; a painful fact, event, or situation; a misfortune; a trouble. And howe he lost that com forth clene, And was putte oute fro paradys, And sithen what sorouse sor warre sene Sente vn-to hym and to al his. York Plays , p. 93. God so willed; Mankind is ignorant, a man am I; Call ignorance my sorrow , not my sin! 1. One of several species of the genus Rumex , ing; lamentation. smaller plants than the docks of the same genus, having the leaves typically halberd- The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary IMG:content-1570.png:[blocks in formation] 4. The devil: used generally as an expletive in imprecation, often implying negation. Com- pare devil , n., 7. Sometimes the muckle sorrow . Also spelled sorra . [Scotch and Irish.] Quhen he had jumlit a full lang houre, The sorrow crap of butter he gatt. Political Poems , etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 239. Uour thinges.. muwen makien him to seoruwen , and bittren his heorte. Ancren Riwle , p. 308. Fortune had left to both of us alike What to delight in, what to sorrow for. 2. To manifest sorrow; mourn; lament. The emperour thet the bly e of the wordle hedden zomtyme nou ine helle wepeth and gredeth, yelleth and zor zeth. Ayenbite of Inwyt (E. E. T. S.), p. 71. Mourn not, except thou sorrow for my good; Only give order for my funeral. IMG:content-1571.png:[blocks in formation] sorrow-stricken (sor'ō-strik"n), a . Stricken with sorrow; pained; grieved; sorrowful. 4. A number of persons, things, ideas, etc.. sorrowyt (sor'o-i), a . [ME. sorewy ; sorrow + grouped together according to the po e ion -y1.] Sorrowful. of common attributes; a kind, as determined by nature, quality, character, or habits; a spe- cies; a cla . He gadered hym a meynee of his sort , To hoppe and synge and maken swich disport. Chaucer , Cook's Tale, 1. 17. A man feels the calamities of his enemies with one sort of sensibility, and his own with quite a different sort . Macaulay , Sir J. Mackintosh. A sort is composed of things a orted, and a orted be- cause po e ing a quality or qualities in common, and must embrace all the objects po e ing the quality or qualities. McCosh , On Berkeley, p. 59. It's the sort of thing people talk of, but I never thought it would come in our way. Mrs. Oliphant , Poor Gentleman, xxxiv. MHG. sērec, serig = Sw. sårig , sore, full of sores), sār , pain, grief, sore: see sorel . The word is thus sore + -yl. It has become con- fused with sorrow, of which it is now the cus- tomary adj. in the lighter uses: see sorrow .] 1. Feeling sorrow; grieved; sorrowful; unhappy; Specifically - (a) A particular cla or order of people. sad; pained; especially, feeling repentance or regret: noting either deep or slight, prolonged or transient, emotion. Sike with the sory , singe with the glade. Piers Plowman (A), xi. 190. The preacher absolved but such as were sorry and did repent. Latimer , 3d Sermon bef. Edw. VI., 1549. I am sorry for thee, friend; 'tis the duke's pleasure. Shak., Lear, ii. 2. 159. 2. Causing sorrow; painful; grievous; mourn- ful. William of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3696. In sorowe tyme for them all The knyght came to the gate. Others lay about the lawns, Of the older sort , and murmur'd that their May Was pa ing. Tennyson, Prince , ii. (b) In printing , one of the characters or pieces in a font of type, considered with reference to its relative supply or lack: nearly always in the plural: as, to be out of sorts (that is, to lack some of the nece ary types in a case); to order sorts for a font (that is, to order more of the kinds of type of which it is deficient). Crabbe, Works, II. 12. 3. A ociated with sorrow; suggestive of grief or suffering; melancholy; dismal. Al ful of chirkyng was that sory place. Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 1146. The place of death and sorry execution. Shak., C. of E., v. 1. 121. The much-wronged and over-sorrowed state of matri- mony. Milton , Divorce, Pref. sorrower (sor'ō-èr), n. [ sorrow + -er1.] One who sorrows; one who grieves or mourns. sorrowful (sor'ō-ful), a . [ sorouful , sor- weful, soruful, sorful, seoruhful, sorhful , sorhful (= OHG.sorgfol , sworgfol , swore- fol =Icel. sorgfullr = Sw.sorgfull = Dan. sorg- fuld ), sorh , sorrow, + ful , full: see sorrow and -ful.] 1. Feeling sorrow or grief; grieved; un- happy; sad. Than the i smyte vpon the saisnes that be so row full and wroth for the deth of Pignores. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 589. My soul is exceeding sorrowful , even unto death. Mat. xxvi. 38. Tho sori wrecches of yuel blod. Genesis and Exodus (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1074. Notwithstanding his fine tongue, he is but a sorry fel- low. Bunyan , Pilgrim's Progre , p. 145. He had set our men upon an island, in a deep snow, without fire, and only a sorry wigwam for their shelter. Winthrop, Hist. New England, II. 267. = Syn. 1. Vexed, chagrined.-4. Pitiful, shabby. sorryt (sor'i), v. i. [ We mourn his death, and sorry for his sake. Ford, Fame's Memorial. sors (sôrz), n. The singular of sortes . sort (sôrt), n . [ sorte (= D. soort = G. sorte ( sort , sort, kind); sort , F. sorte = Sp. suerte = Pg. sorte It. sorte , sorta , lot, part, sort, kind, sor (t-)s, f., lot, destiny, an oracular re- sponse, in gen. fate, condition, part; prob. al- It was a sorful sizt to se how it ferde. William of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), L. 3540. Oh sorrowful and sad! the streaming tears Channel her cheeks. Corper , Truth, 1. 173. 3. Expre ive or indicative of sorrow, grief, or regret; plaintive; pathetic. I called to minde that, twelue or thirtene yeares past, I had begonne an Elegye or sorrowefull song, called the Complainte of Phylomene. Gas coigne, Philomene, Ded. (Steele Glas, etc., ed. Arber). O most false love! Where be the sacred vials thou shouldst fill With sorrouwful water? Shak., A. and C., i. 3. 64. 4. Affected or accompanied by grief; mel an- choly; doleful; afflicted. The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sor- rowful meat. Job vi. 7. Go into old Titus' sorrowful house, And hither hale that misbelieving Moor. Shak ., Tit. And., v. 3. 142. =Syn. Dismal, disconsolate, rueful, woful. sorrowfully (sor'ō-fül-i), adv . [ fully , seoruhfullice ; sorrowful + -ly2.] In a sorrowful manner; with sorrow. sort, v., sortance, sorcer , sorcerer , sorcery , a ort , consort, resort1, etc.] 1. A lot; that which is awarded or determined by lot; hence, in gen- eral, one's fate, fortune, or destiny. Sone haf thay her sortes sette & serelych deled, & ay the the lote, vpon laste, lymped on Ionas. Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), iii. 194. And the sort of synne fallith vp on him that is with oute rizt-wisne e or mercy. Gesta Romanorum (ed. Herrtage), p. 36. Make a lottery; And, by device, let blockish Ajax draw The sort to fight with Hector. 2t. Allotted station or position; condition; rank; specifically, high rank; social eminence. God save ye! For le I cannot wish to men of sort , And of your seeming; are you of the duke's? The building was a spacious theatre, With seats where all the lords, and each degree Of sort , might sit in order to behold. 3. Characteristic mode of being; nature; qual- ity; character. The fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. 1 Cor. iii. 13. kind or used together; a set; a suit. Sort of Balances (among Tradesmen) is four Dozen in Number. Bailey , 1731. 6. A group; a flock; a troop; a company. [Obsolete or prov. Eng.] Eftsoones the people all to harne e ran, And like a sort of Bees in clusters swarmed. Spenser, F. Q., V. iv. 36. King Agesilaus, hauing a great sort of little children, was one day disposed to solace himself among them in a gallery. Putten ham , Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 234. A sort of Doves were housed too near their hall. Dryden, Hind and Panther, iii. 946. 7. Particular mode of action or procedure; manner; fashion; way. IMG:content-1572.png:[blocks in formation] sort = Syn. 4. Kind, Sort, Kind is by derivation a deeper or more serious word than sort; sort is often used slightingly, while kind is rarely so used. sort (sort), v. [ And forth he wente, shortly for to telle, Ther as Mercurie sorted hym to dwelle.