sowther

Same as souther2. Hall i well. sow-thistle (sou'this"l), n. [ Chaucer. riants of sultane . IMG:content-1616.png:[blocks in formation] Sow-thistle ( Sonchus oleraceus). I have been told that soy is made with 1, upper part of the stem with the heads; a fishy composition, 2, one of the basal leaves; a , a flower; b, and it seems most the achene with the pappus. likely by the Taste; tho' a Gentleman of my Acquaintance who was very intimate with one that sailed often from Tonquin to Japan, from whence true Soy comes, told me that it was made only with Wheat and a sort of Beans mixt with Water and Dampier, Voyages, II. 28. Salt. From travellers accustom'd from a boy To eat their salmon, at the least, with soy . Byron, Beppo, vii. 2. The soy-bean or-pea, Glycine Soja ( Soja his pida, etc.). It is an annual leguminous plant with stout nearly erect or somewhat climbing stems covered with rusty hairs, bearing trifoliate leaves and from their axils two or three pods 1 or 2 inches long. The seeds are made into the above sauce and variously used in cookery; an oil is also expre ed from them, and the residue is extensively used in China for feeding cattle and as a fertilizer. The plant is native from northern India to Japan. The cultivated plant differs somewhat from the wild, and by some autfors is distinguished as Glycine hispid a. Also Sahuca bean .