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2. (Phonetics) Uttered, as an element of speech, with tone or proper vocal sound, as distinguished from mere breath sound; intonated; voiced; vocal; tonic; the opposite of nonvocal, or surd; -- said of the vowels, semivowels, liquids, and nasals, and particularly of the consonants b, d, g hard, v, etc., as compared with their cognates p, t, k, f, etc., which are called nonvocal, surd, or aspirate. -- n. A sonant letter.
So*na"ta (?), n. [It., fr. It. & L. sonare to sound. See Sound a noise.] (Mus.) An extended composition for one or two instruments, consisting usually of three or four movements; as, Beethoven's sonatas for the piano, for the violin and piano, etc.
The same general structure prevails in symphonies, instrumental trios, quartets, etc., and even in classical concertos. The sonata form, distinctively, characterizes the quick opening movement, which may have a short, slow introduction; the second, or slow, movement is either in the song or variation form; third comes the playful minuet or the more modern scherzo; then the quick finale in the rondo form. But both form and order are sometimes exceptional.
||So`na*ti"na (?), n. [It.] (Mus.) A short and simple sonata.
{ Son"cy, Son"sy (?) }, a. [Scot. sonce, sons, prosperity, happiness, fr. Gael. & Ir. sonas.] Lucky; fortunate; thriving; plump. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
{ Sond (?), Sonde }, n. [AS. sand. See Send, v. t.] That which is sent; a message or messenger; hence, also, a visitation of providence; an affliction or trial. [Obs.]
Ye have enough, parde, of Goddes sond.
Chaucer.
||Son"de*li (?), n. (Zoöl.) The musk shrew. See under Musk.
Song (sng; 115), n. [AS. song, sang, fr. singan to sing; akin to D. zang, G. sang, Icel. söngr, Goth. saggws. See Sing.] 1. That which is sung or uttered with musical modulations of the voice, whether of a human being or of a bird, insect, etc. "That most ethereal of all sounds, the song of crickets." Hawthorne.
2. A lyrical poem adapted to vocal music; a ballad.
3. More generally, any poetical strain; a poem.
The bard that first adorned our native tongue Tuned to his British lyre this ancient song.
Dryden.
4. Poetical composition; poetry; verse.
This subject for heroic song.
Milton.
5. An object of derision; a laughingstock.
And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
Job xxx. 9.
6. A trifle. "The soldier's pay is a song." Silliman.
Old song, a trifle; nothing of value. "I do not intend to be thus put off with an old song." Dr. H. More. -- Song bird (Zoöl.), any singing bird; one of the Oscines. -- Song sparrow (Zoöl.), a very common North American sparrow (Melospiza fasciata, or M. melodia) noted for the sweetness of its song in early spring. Its breast is covered with dusky brown streaks which form a blotch in the center. -- Song thrush (Zoöl.), a common European thrush (Turdus musicus), noted for its melodius song; -- called also mavis, throstle, and thrasher.
Syn. -- Sonnet; ballad; canticle; carol; canzonet; ditty; hymn; descant; lay; strain; poesy; verse.
Song"craft` (sng"krft`), n. The art of making songs or verses; metrical composition; versification.
A half-effaced inscription, Written with little skill of songcraft.
Longfellow.
Song"ful (-fl), a. Disposed to sing; full of song.
Song"ish, a. Consisting of songs. [R.] Dryden.
Song"less, a. Destitute of the power of song; without song; as, songless birds; songless woods.
Song"ster (-str), n. [AS. sangestre a female singer.] 1. One who sings; one skilled in singing; -- not often applied to human beings.
2. (Zoöl.) A singing bird.
Song"stress (?), n. [See Songster, and -ess.] A woman who sings; also, a female singing bird. Thomson.
Son"i*fer (?), n. [NL. See Soniferous.] A kind of ear trumpet for the deaf, or the partially deaf.
So*nif"er*ous (?), a. [L. sonus sound + -ferous.] Sounding; producing sound; conveying sound.
Son`i*fi*ca"tion (?), n. [L. sonus sound + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See - fy.] The act of producing sound, as the stridulation of insects.
Son"-in-law` (?), n.; pl. Sons-in-law (&?;). The husband of one's daughter; a man in his relationship to his wife's parents.
To take me as for thy son in lawe.
Chaucer.
Son"less, a. Being without a son. Marston.
As no baron who was sonless could give a husband to his daughter, save with his lord's consent.
J. R. Green.
Son"net (?), n. [F., fr. It. sonetto, fr. suono a sound, a song, fr. L. sonus a sound. See Sound noise.] 1. A short poem, -- usually amatory. [Obs.] Shak.
He had a wonderful desire to chant a sonnet or hymn unto Apollo Pythius.
Holland.
2. A poem of fourteen lines, -- two stanzas, called the octave, being of four verses each, and two stanzas, called the sestet, of three verses each, the rhymes being adjusted by a particular rule.
In the proper sonnet each line has five accents, and the octave has but two rhymes, the second, third, sixth, and seventh lines being of one rhyme, and the first, fourth, fifth, and eighth being of another. In the sestet there are sometimes two and sometimes three rhymes; but in some way its two stazas rhyme together. Often the three lines of the first stanza rhyme severally with the three lines of the second. In Shakespeare's sonnets, the first twelve lines are rhymed alternately, and the last two rhyme together.
Son"net, v. i. To compose sonnets. "Strains that come almost to sonneting." Milton.
Son`net*eer" (?), n. A composer of sonnets, or small poems; a small poet; -- usually in contempt.
What woful stuff this madrigal would be In some starved hackney sonneteer or me!
Pope.
Son`net*eer", v. i. To compose sonnets. Lowell.
Son"net*er (?), n. A composer of sonnets.
Son"net*ist, n. A sonneter, or sonneteer. Bp. Hall.
Son"net*ize (?), v. i. To compose sonnets.
Son"nish (?), a. Like the sun; sunny; golden. [Obs.] "Her sonnish hairs." Chaucer.
Son"nite (?), n. See Sunnite.
So*nom"e*ter (?), n. [L. sonus a sound + -meter.] 1. (Physiol.) An instrument for exhibiting the transverse vibrations of cords, and ascertaining the relations between musical notes. It consists of a cord stretched by weight along a box, and divided into different lengths at pleasure by a bridge, the place of which is determined by a scale on the face of the box.
2. An instrument for testing the hearing capacity.
Son`o*rif"ic (?), a. [L. sonor, -oris, a sound + facere to make. See Sonorous.] Producing sound; as, the sonorific quality of a body. [R.] I. Watts.
So*nor"i*ty (?), n. [L. sonoritas.] The quality or state of being sonorous; sonorousness.
So*no"rous (?), a. [L. sonorus, fr. sonor, -oris, a sound, akin to sonus a sound. See Sound.] 1. Giving sound when struck; resonant; as, sonorous metals.
2. Loud-sounding; giving a clear or loud sound; as, a sonorous voice.
3. Yielding sound; characterized by sound; vocal; sonant; as, the vowels are sonorous.
4. Impressive in sound; high- sounding.
The Italian opera, amidst all the meanness and familiarty of the thoughts, has something beautiful and sonorous in the expression.
Addison.
There is nothing of the artificial Johnsonian balance in his style. It is as often marked by a pregnant brevity as by a sonorous amplitude.
E. Everett.
5. (Med.) Sonant; vibrant; hence, of sounds produced in a cavity, deep-toned; as, sonorous rhonchi.
Sonorous figures (Physics), figures formed by the vibrations of a substance capable of emitting a musical tone, as when the bow of a violin is drawn along the edge of a piece of glass or metal on which sand is strewed, and the sand arranges itself in figures according to the musical tone. Called also acoustic figures. -- Sonorous tumor (Med.), a tumor which emits a clear, resonant sound on percussion.
-- So*no"rous*ly, adv. -- So*no"rous*ness, n.
Son"ship (?), n. The state of being a son, or of bearing the relation of a son; filiation. Dr. H. More.
Son"sy (?), a. See Soncy. [Scot.] Burns.
Son"tag (?), n. [So called from from Mme. Henriette Sontag, a famous singer.] A knitted worsted jacket, worn over the waist of a woman's dress.
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Son"ties (?), n. Probably from "saintes" saints, or from sanctities; -- used as an oath. [Obs.] Shak.
Soo*chong" (?), n. Same as Souchong.
||Soo"dra (?). Same as Sudra.
{ Soo"fee (?), Soo"fee*ism (?) }. Same as Sufi, Sufism.
Soo"jee (?), n. Same as Suji.
Soon (?), adv. [OE. sone, AS. s&?;na; cf. OFries. s&?;n, OS. sna, sno, OHG. sr, Goth. suns.] 1. In a short time; shortly after any time specified or supposed; as, soon after sunrise. "Sooner said than done." Old Proverb. "As soon as it might be." Chaucer.
She finished, and the subtle fiend his lore Soon learned.
Milton.
2. Without the usual delay; before any time supposed; early.
How is it that ye are come so soon to- day?
Ex. ii. 18.
3. Promptly; quickly; easily.
Small lights are soon blown out, huge fires abide.
Shak.
4. Readily; willingly; -- in this sense used with would, or some other word expressing will.
I would as soon see a river winding through woods or in meadows, as when it is tossed up in so many whimsical figures at Versailles.
Addison.
As soon as, or So soon as, immediately at or after another event. "As soon as he came nigh unto the camp . . . he saw the calf, and the dancing." Ex. xxxii. 19. See So . . . as, under So. -- Soon at, as soon as; or, as soon as the time referred to arrives. [Obs.] "I shall be sent for soon at night." Shak. -- Sooner or later, at some uncertain time in the future; as, he will discover his mistake sooner or later. -- With the soonest, as soon as any; among the earliest; too soon. [Obs.] Holland.
Soon, a. Speedy; quick. [Obs.] Shak.
Soo"nee (?), n. See Sunnite.
Soon"ly (?), adv. Soon. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.
Soord (?), n. Skin of bacon. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
Soor"ma (?), n. [Hind. & Per. surma.] A preparation of antimony with which Mohammedan men anoint their eyelids.
Soo*shong" (?), n. See Souchong.
Soo"soo (?), n. (Zoöl.) A kind of dolphin (Platanista Gangeticus) native of the river Ganges; the Gangetic dolphin. It has a long, slender, somewhat spatulate beak. [Written also susu.]
Soot (? or ?; 277), n. [OE. sot, AS. s&?;t; akin to Icel. s&?;t, Sw. sot, Dan. sod, OD. soet, Lith. s&?;dis; cf. Gael. suith, Ir. suth.] A black substance formed by combustion, or disengaged from fuel in the process of combustion, which rises in fine particles, and adheres to the sides of the chimney or pipe conveying the smoke; strictly, the fine powder, consisting chiefly of carbon, which colors smoke, and which is the result of imperfect combustion. See Smoke.
Soot, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sooted; p. pr. & vb. n. Sooting.] To cover or dress with soot; to smut with, or as with, soot; as, to soot land. Mortimer.
{ Soot (?), Soot"e (?) }, a. [See Sweet.] Sweet. [Obs.] "The soote savour of the vine." Chaucer.
Soot"er*kin (?), n. [Cf. Prov. G. suttern to boil gently.] A kind of false birth, fabled to be produced by Dutch women from sitting over their stoves; also, an abortion, in a figurative sense; an abortive scheme.
Fruits of dull heat, and sooterkins of wit.
Pope.
Sooth (sth), a.; also adv. [Compar. Soother (sth"r); superl. Soothest.] [OE. soth, AS. sð, for sanð; akin to OS. sð, OHG. sand, Icel. sannr, Sw. sann, Dan. sand, Skr. sat, sant, real, genuine, present, being; properly p. pr. from a root meaning, to be, Skr. as, L. esse; also akin to Goth. sunjis true, Gr. 'eteo`s, Skr. satya. √9. Cf. Absent, Am, Essence, Is, Soothe, Sutee.] 1. True; faithful; trustworthy. [Obs. or Scot.]
The sentence [meaning] of it sooth is, out of doubt.
Chaucer.
That shall I sooth (said he) to you declare.
Spensser.
2. Pleasing; delightful; sweet. [R.]
The soothest shepherd that ever piped on plains.
Milton.
With jellies soother than the creamy curd.
Keats.
Sooth, n. [AS. sð. See Sooth, a.] 1. Truth; reality. [Archaic]
The sooth it this, the cut fell to the knight.
Chaucer.
In sooth, I know not why I am so sad.
Shak.
In good sooth, Its mystery is love, its meaninng youth.
Longfellow.
2. Augury; prognostication. [Obs.]
The soothe of birds by beating of their wings.
Spenser.
3. Blandishment; cajolery. [Obs.] Shak.
Soothe (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Soothed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Soothing.] [Originally, to assent to as true; OE. so&?;ien to verify, AS. ges&?;&?;ian to prove the truth of, to bear witness. See Sooth, a.] 1. To assent to as true. [Obs.] Testament of Love.
2. To assent to; to comply with; to gratify; to humor by compliance; to please with blandishments or soft words; to flatter.
Good, my lord, soothe him, let him take the fellow.
Shak.
I've tried the force of every reason on him, Soothed and caressed, been angry, soothed again.
Addison.
3. To assuage; to mollify; to calm; to comfort; as, to soothe a crying child; to soothe one's sorrows.
Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
Congreve.
Though the sound of Fame May for a moment soothe, it can not slake The fever of vain longing.
Byron.
Syn. -- To soften; assuage; allay; compose; mollify; tranquilize; pacify; mitigate.
Sooth"er (?), n. One who, or that which, soothes.
Sooth"fast` (?), a. [Sooth + fast, that is, fast or firm with respect to truth.] Firmly fixed in, or founded upon, the thruth; true; genuine; real; also, truthful; faithful. [Archaic] -- Sooth"fast`ness, n. [Archaic] "In very soothfastness." Chaucer.
Why do not you . . . bear leal and soothfast evidence in her behalf, as ye may with a clear conscience!
Sir W. Scott.
Sooth"fast`, adv. Soothly; really; in fact. [Archaic]
I care not if the pomps you show Be what they soothfast appear.
Emerson.
Sooth"ing (?), a. & n. from Soothe, v.
Sooth"ing*ly, adv. In a soothing manner.
Sooth"ly (?), adv. In truth; truly; really; verily. [Obs.] "Soothly for to say." Chaucer.
Sooth"ness, n. Truth; reality. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Sooth"say` (?), v. i. [Sooth + say; properly to say truth, tell the truth.] To foretell; to predict. "You can not soothsay." Shak. "Old soothsaying Glaucus' spell." Milton.
Sooth"say`, n. 1. A true saying; a proverb; a prophecy. [Obs.] Spenser.
2. Omen; portent. Having
God turn the same to good soothsay.
Spenser.
Sooth"say`er (?), n. 1. One who foretells events by the art of soothsaying; a prognosticator.
2. (Zoöl.) A mantis.
Sooth"say`ing, n. 1. A true saying; truth. [Obs.]
2. The act of one who soothsays; the foretelling of events; the art or practice of making predictions.
A damsel, possessed with a spirit of divination . . . which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying.
Acts xvi. 16.
3. A prediction; a prophecy; a prognostication.
Divinations and soothsayings and dreams are vain.
Eclus. xxxiv. 5.
Soot"i*ness (?), n. The quality or state of being sooty; fuliginousness. Johnson.
Soot"ish, a. Sooty. Sir T. Browne.
Soot"y (?), a. [Compar Sootier (?); superl. Sootiest.] [AS. s&?;tig. See Soot.] 1. Of or pertaining to soot; producing soot; soiled by soot. "Fire of sooty coal." Milton.
2. Having a dark brown or black color like soot; fuliginous; dusky; dark. "The grisly legions that troop under the sooty flag of Acheron." Milton.
Sooty albatross (Zoöl.), an albatross (Phœbetria fuliginosa) found chiefly in the Pacific Ocean; -- called also nellie. -- Sooty tern (Zoöl.), a tern (Sterna fuliginosa) found chiefly in tropical seas.
Soot"y, v. t. To black or foul with soot. [R.]
Sootied with noisome smoke.
Chapman.
Sop (?), n. [OE. sop, soppe; akin to AS. s&?;pan to sup, to sip, to drink, D. sop sop, G. suppe soup, Icel. soppa sop. See Sup, v. t., and cf. Soup.] 1. Anything steeped, or dipped and softened, in any liquid; especially, something dipped in broth or liquid food, and intended to be eaten.
He it is to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it.
John xiii. 26.
Sops in wine, quantity, inebriate more than wine itself.
Bacon.
The bounded waters Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores, And make a sop of all this solid globe.
Shak.
2. Anything given to pacify; -- so called from the sop given to Cerberus, as related in mythology.
All nature is cured with a sop.
L'Estrange.
3. A thing of little or no value. [Obs.] P. Plowman.
Sops in wine (Bot.), an old name of the clove pink, alluding to its having been used to flavor wine.
Garlands of roses and sops in wine.
Spenser.
-- Sops of wine (Bot.), an old European variety of apple, of a yellow and red color, shading to deep red; -- called also sopsavine, and red shropsavine.
Sop, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sopped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Sopping.] To steep or dip in any liquid.
Sope (?), n. See Soap. [Obs.]
Soph (?), n. (Eng. Univ.) A contraction of Soph ister. [Colloq.]
Soph, n. (Amer. Colleges) A contraction of Sophomore. [Colloq.]
So"phi (?), n.; pl. Sophis (&?;). See Sufi.
{ Soph"ic (?), Soph"ic*al (?) }, a. [Gr. &?;, fr. &?; wise, &?; wisdom.] Teaching wisdom. [Obs.] S. Harris.
So*phime" (? or ?), n. [OF. soffime, sophisme.] Sophism. [Obs.]
I trow ye study aboute some sophime.
Chaucer.
Soph"ism (?), n. [F. sophisme, L. sophisma, fr. Gr. &?;, fr. &?; to make wise, &?; to be become wise, to play the sophist, fr. &?; wise.] The doctrine or mode of reasoning practiced by a sophist; hence, any fallacy designed to deceive.
When a false argument puts on the appearance of a true one, then it is properly called a sophism, or "fallacy".
I. Watts.
Let us first rid ourselves of sophisms, those of depraved men, and those of heartless philosophers.
I. Taylor.
Soph"ist, n. [F. sophiste, L. sophistes, fr. Gr. &?;. See Sophism.] 1. One of a class of men who taught eloquence, philosophy, and politics in ancient Greece; especially, one of those who, by their fallacious but plausible reasoning, puzzled inquirers after truth, weakened the faith of the people, and drew upon themselves general hatred and contempt.
Many of the Sophists doubdtless card not for truth or morality, and merely professed to teach how to make the worse appear the better reason; but there scems no reason to hold that they were a special class, teaching special opinions; even Socrates and Plato were sometimes styled Sophists.
Liddell & Scott.
2. Hence, an impostor in argument; a captious or fallacious reasoner.
Soph"ist*er (?), n. 1. A sophist. See Sophist. [Obs.] Hooker.
2. (Eng. Univ.) A student who is advanced beyond the first year of his residence.
The entire course at the university consists of three years and one term, during which the students have the titles of first- year men, or freshmen; second-year men or junior sophs or sophisters; third-year men, or senior sophs or sophisters; and, in the last term, questionists, with reference to the approaching examination. In the older American colleges, the junior and senior classes were originally called, and in some of them are still called, junior sophisters and senior sophisters.
Soph"ist*er (?), v. t. To maintain by sophistry, or by a fallacious argument. [Obs.] obham.
{ So*phis"tic (?), So*phis"tic*al }, a. [L. sophisticus, Gr. &?;: cf. F. sophistique.] Of or pertaining to a sophist; embodying sophistry; fallaciously subtile; not sound.
His argument . . . is altogether sophistical.
Macaulay.
-- So*phis"tic*al*ly, adv. -- So*phis"tic*al*ness, n.
So*phis"ti*cate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sophisticated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Sophisticating.] [LL. sophisticatus, p. p. of sophisticare to sophisticate.] To render worthless by admixture; to adulterate; to damage; to pervert; as, to sophisticate wine. Howell.
To sophisticate the understanding.
Southey.
Yet Butler professes to stick to plain facts, not to sophisticate, not to refine.
M. Arnold.
They purchase but sophisticated ware.
Dryden.
Syn. -- To adulterate; debase; corrupt; vitiate.
{ So*phis"ti*cate (?), So*phis"ti*ca`ted (?) }, a. Adulterated; not pure; not genuine.
So truth, while only one supplied the state, Grew scare and dear, and yet sophisticate.
Dryden.
So*phis`ti*ca"tion (?), n. [Cf. LL. sophisticatio, F. sophistication.] The act of sophisticating; adulteration; as, the sophistication of drugs. Boyle.
So*phis"ti*ca`tor (?), n. One who sophisticates.
Soph"ist*ry (?), n. [OE. sophistrie, OF. sophisterie.] 1. The art or process of reasoning; logic. [Obs.]
2. The practice of a sophist; fallacious reasoning; reasoning sound in appearance only.
The juggle of sophistry consists, for the most part, in usig a word in one sense in the premise, and in another sense in the conclusion.
Coleridge.
Syn. -- See Fallacy.
Soph"o*more (?), n. [Probably fr. soph or sophister + Gr. &?; foolish. The word was probably introduced into the United States at an early date, from the University of Cambridge, England. Among the cant terms at that university, as given in the Gradus ad Cantabrigiam, we find Soph- Mor as "the next distinctive appellation to Freshman," but the term has now almost ceased to be known at the English university from whence it came.] One belonging to the second of the four classes in an American college, or one next above a freshman. [Formerly written also sophimore.]
{ Soph`o*mor"ic (?), Soph`o*mor"ic*al (?) }, a. Of or pertaining to a sophomore; resembling a sophomore; hence, pretentious; inflated in style or manner; as, sophomoric affectation. [U. S.]
So*pho"ra (?), n. [Ar. &?;ufair.] (Bot.) (a) A genus of leguminous plants. (b) A tree (Sophora Japonica) of Eastern Asia, resembling the common locust; occasionally planted in the United States.
Soph"ta (?), n. See Softa.
So"pite (?), v. t. [L. sopitus, p. p. of sopire to put to sleep; akin to sopor a sleeping draught, a heavy sleep.] To lay asleep; to put to sleep; to quiet. [Obs.]
The king's declaration for the sopiting of all Arminian heresies.
Fuller.
So*pi"tion (?), n. The act of putting to sleep, or the state of being put to sleep; sleep. [Obs.]
Dementation and sopition of reason.
Sir T. Browne.
||So"por (?), n. [L.] (Med.) Profound sleep from which a person can be ||roused only with difficulty.
Sop"o*rate (?), v. t. [L. soporatus, p. p. or soporare to put to sleep, fr. sopor a heavy sleep.] To lay or put to sleep; to stupefy. [Obs.] Cudworth.
Sop`o*rif"er*ous (?), a. [L. soparifer; sopor a heavy sleep + ferere to bring.] Causing sleep; somniferous; soporific. "Soporiferous medicine." Swift.
--- Sop`o*rif"er*ous*ly, adv. -- Sop`o*rif"er*ous*ness, n.
Sop`o*rif"ic (?; 277), a. [L. sopor a heavy sleep (akin to somnus sleep) + facere to make. See Somnolent, Fact.] Causing sleep; tending to cause sleep; soporiferous; as, the soporific virtues of opium.
Syn. -- Somniferous; narcotic; opiate; anodyne.
Sop`o*rif"ic, n. A medicine, drug, plant, or other agent that has the quality of inducing sleep; a narcotic.
{ Sop"o*rose` (?), Sop"o*rous (?) }, a. [From Sopor; cf. L. soporus, fr. sopor a heavy sleep; F. soporeux.] Causing sleep; sleepy.
Sop"per (?), n. One who sops. Johnson.
Sop"py (?), a. Soaked or saturated with liquid or moisture; very wet or sloppy.
It [Yarmouth] looked rather spongy and soppy.
Dickens.
||So"pra (?), adv. [It., from L. supra above.] (Mus.) Above; before; ||over; upon.
So*pra"nist (?), n. (Mus.) A treble singer.
So*pra"no (?), n.; pl. E. Sopranos (#), It. Soprani (#). [It., fr. soprano superior, highest, fr. sopra above, L. supra. See Sovereign.] (Mus.) (a) The treble; the highest vocal register; the highest kind of female or boy's voice; the upper part in harmony for mixed voices. (b) A singer, commonly a woman, with a treble voice.
Sops"a*vine (?), n. See Sops of wine, under Sop.
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