chief minifter, watches, left any fhould disturb him. Heftod. Theog. Hom. Il. 14, &c. pofita. The receptacle is naked; the calyx is imbricated, bellying and conical; the down of the SOMORESTRO, a town of Spain, in Biscay, feed is fimpie, feffile, and very foft; the feed is on the coaft of the Atlantic; 13 m. NW. of Bilboa. oval and pointed. There are 13 fpecies; viz. SOMPIL, a town of Thibet ; 45 m. ESE. of Pa. 1. SONCHUS ALPINUS; 2. ARDENSIS; 3. CASOMPY, a town of France, in the dep. of Marne: NADENSIS; 4. FLORIDANUS; 5. FRUTICOSUS; 18 miles NW. of St Menehould. 6. MARITIMUS; 7. OLERACEUS; 8. PALUSTRIS; 9. PLUMIERI 10. SIBIRICUS; 11. TARTARICUS; 12. TENERRIMUS; 13. TUBEROSUS. Of these the following are natives of Britain:"" SOMSDORF, a town of Upper Saxony; in Erzgeburg; 10 miles E. of Freyberg. - (1.) * SON. n. f. [ funus, Gothick; funa, Saxon; fohn, German; fan, Swedith; fone, Dutch; fyn, Sciavonian.] 1. A male born of one or begotten by one; correlative to father or mother. -She had a fon for her cradle, ere fhe had a husband for her bed. Shakespeare.-Caft out this bondwoman and her fon. Gen. xxi. 10.-A wife father, would have his fons exercifed with labour and pain, that they may gather ftrength. Addif. 2. Defcendant, however diftant: as the fons of Adam. I am the fon of the wife, the fon of aneicat kings. If. xix. 3. Compellation of an old to a young man, or of a confeffor to his penitent. Be plain, good fon, and homely. 4. Native of a country. Britain then Shak. Sees arts her favage fons controul. Pope. 5. The fecond perfon. of the Trinity. If thou be the fan of God come down. Mat. xxvii. 6. Product of any thing. Our imperfections loudly tell s we are fans of earth. Brown. Earth's tall Jons, the cedar, oak, and pine. Blackmore 7. In feripture, sons of pride, and fons of light, denoting fome quality. Tis a Hebraifm.- This man of clay, fon of despite. Milton. (2.) SON. See FILIAL, 3, 4; PARENT, 73; and PIETY, 2, 3. (1.) * SONATA. n. f. [Italian. A tune. He whistled a Scotch tune, and an Italian fonata. Add. Could Pedro, think you, make no trial Of a forata on his viol? Prior. > (2.) SONATA, in mufic, is a piece of compofition intended to be performed by inftruments oniy, in which fenfe it stands oppofed to cantata, or a piece defigned for the voice. See CANTATA. The fonata then, is properly a grand, a free, humorous compofition, diverfified with a great variety of motions and expreffions, extraordinary and bold ftrokes, figures, &c. And all this pure. ty according to the fancy of the compofer; who, without confining himfelf to any general rules of counterpoint, or to any fixed number or measure, gives a loofe to his genius and runs from one mode, meafure, &c. to another, as he thinks fit. This fpecies of compofition had its rife about the middle of the 17th century; thofe who have moft exBelled in it were Baflani and Correlii. See Mu 1. SONCHUS ALPINUS, blue-flowered for thile. The ftem is erect, purplish, branched, or fimple, from three to fix feet high: the leaves are large, imooth, and finuated; the extreme segment large and triangular: the flowers are blue and grow on hairy vifcid pedicles, in long fpikes: the calyx is brown. This fpecies is found in Northumberland. 2. SONCHUS ARVENSIS, corn fow-thiftle. leaves are alternate, runcinate, and heart-shaped at the bafe; the root creeps under ground; the ftem is three or four feet kigh, and branched at the top. It grows in cora-fields, and flowers in Auguft. The 3. SONCHUS OLERACES, common for-thistle. The stalk is fucculent, pistular, and a cubit high or more; the leaves are broad, embracing the ftem, generally deeply finuated, fmooth or prickly at the edges; the flowers are of a pale yellow, numerous, in a kind of umbel, and terminal; the calyx is fmooth. It is frequent in wafte places and cultivated grounds. 4. SONCHUS PALUSTRIS, marsh fow-thiffle. The ftem is erect, from fix to ten feet high, branched and hairy towards the top: the leaves are firm, broad, half pinnated, serrated and sharp-pointed; the lower ones fagittate at the bafe: the flowers are of a deep yellow, large and dispersed on the tops of the branches: the calyx is rough. It is frequent in marthes, and flowers in July or Aug. SONCINO, a town of the new kingdom of I taly, and ci-devant Italian republic, in the depart. ment of the Upper Po, district and late territory of the Cremona; feated on the Oglio, 8 miles ENE. of Crema, and 20 NW. of Cremona. In 1797 it contained 4500 inhabitants. Lon. 9. 44. E Lat. 45. 24. N. SONDAU, a town of Lower Saxony, in Magk, deburg: 50 miles NNE. of Magdeburg. SONDELY, a town of Norway, in Bergen. SONDERBORG, a fea-port town of Denmark, on the S. coaft of the ifle of Alfen, with a palace, and a good harbour. In this town Chriftian II was confined a prifoner 13 years. The men are mostly feamen. It is 16 miles ENE of Flensborg Lon. 9. 49. E. Lat. 54. 57. N. SONDERSHAUSEN, a town of Upper Saxony, in Schwartzburg, on the Wipper. The palace stands on an eminence without the town; and in its armoury is an image of Pastrich, one of the chief idols of the Wendifh. It is zo miles NE of Mulhaufen, and 26 N. of Erfort. t SONDERS, or a town of Switzerland, for SONDRIO, merly in the country of the Grifons, and late capital of the VALTELINE, DOW included in the kingdom of Italy, but in what department we know not; although the Valfe line, Chiavenna, and Borneo, were annexed to the Cifalpine republic, at the request of the ci fingle piece of mufic, whether contrived for the voice or an inftrument. See AIR. (3.) SONG, in poetry, a fhort compofition, eonfifting of eafy and natural verfes, fet to a tune in order to be fung. (4.) SONG, in geography, a town of China, of the 3d rank, in the prov. cf Ho-nan, 37 miles SSW. of He-nan. tizens, (who thought the government of the Grifɔns too defootic,) very sɔon after its erection. Se CISALPINE REPUBLIC.) How they reifh their new king Napoleon, we may conjecture from their zeal for liberty. It is built in a very romantic fituation, partly in a plain, and partly on the fide of a rock, at the extremity of a narrow valley, where it occupies both fides of the Malenco, a furious torrent, which runs into the Adda, and often overflows its banks. But more ious torrents have fometimes defolated this country. On the 20th July 1620, there was a dreadful massacre of the Proteftants in this town, shich began at Tirano, extended to all the towns of the Vaiteline, and lafted 3 days. Sondrio is 34 miles NE. of Como. Lon. 9. 40. E. Lat. 46. I. N. SONGGA, a town of the Batavian republic, * the dep. of the Eems, and ci-devant province at Frefland; 9 miles E. of Kuynder. SONEGUERA, a town of Mexico, in the prov. of Hon luras. Lon. 69. o. W. Ferro. Lat. 15. 1. N. (1.) SONENBERG, a town of Brandenburg, the New Mark; 6 miles E. of Cuftrin. (1.) SONENBERG. a town of Germany, in Tyrol, and county of Pludentz; 4 miles N. of Plu SONERGONG, or SUNNERGAUN, a village of Hindooftan, anciently a large city, and the provincial capital of the E. divifion of Bengal, before Dacca was built.. It is feated on a branch of - Barrampooter; 13 miles SE. of Dacca. SONEPOUR, a town of Hindooftan in Orixa, 18 miles S. of Sumbalpour and 30 W. of Boad. SONEVALDT, a town of Lufatia; 8 miles S. of Luckau, and 36 W. of Gorlitz. (1.)* SONG. n. f. [from fefungen, Saxon.]. Acy thing modulated in the utterance.Noile other than the found of dance and fong. Milton. His cenfure farther than the fong or dance. Dryden. A poem to be modulated by the voice; a bal 1. • Poetry: poefy.— This fubject for heroick song pleas'd me. If there be force in virtue, or in fong. The lark, the messenger of day, Saluted in her fong the morning grey. Dryden. 6. An old SONG. A trifle. -I do not intend to be thus put off with an old g. More.-A hopeful youth was forced by a cooler to refign all for an old fong. Addison. (2.) SONG, in mufic is applied in general to a VOL. XXI. PART I. (5.) SONG OF BIRDS is defined by the Hon. Daines Barrington to be a fucceffion of three or more different notes, which are continued without interruption, during the fame interval, with a mufical bar of 4 crotchets in an adagio movement, or whilft a pendulum Twings four feconds. It is affirmed, that the notes of birds are no more innate than language in man, and that they depend upon imitation, as far as their organs will enable them to imitate the founds which they have frequent opportunities of hearing: and their adhering fo fteadily, even in a wild ftate, to the fame fong, is owing to the nefting attending only to the inftruction of the parent bird, whilft they difregard the notes of all others that may be finging round them. Birds in a wild ftate do not commonly fing above 10 weeks in the year, whereas birds that have plenty of food in a cage fing the greateft part of the year: the female of no fpecies of birds ever fags. This is a wife provifion, because her fong would difcover her ueft. In the fame manner, we may account for her inferiority in plumage. The faculty of finging is confined to the cock birds; and accordingly Mr Hunter, in diffecting birds of several species found the mufcles of the larynx to be ftronger in the nightingale than in any other bird of the fame fize; and in all those inftances, where he diffected both cock and hen, the fame mufcles were ftronger in the cock. It is an obfervation as ancient as the time of Pliny, that a capon does not crow. Yet the voice of an eunuch is fuppofed to be improved by a fimilar privation! Some afcribe the finging of the cock in the foring folely to the motive of pleafing his mate during incubation; others, who allow that it is partly for this end, believe it is partly owing to another caufe, viz. the great abundance of plants and infects in fpring, which are the proper food of finging birds at that time of the year, as well as feeds. Mr Barrington remarks, that there is no inftance of any finging bird which exceeds our lackbird in fize; and this, he fuppofes, may arife from the difficulty of its concealing itself, if it called the attention of its enemies not only by its bulk, but by the proportionable loudnefs of its notes. He farther obferves, that fome paffages of the fong in a few kinds of birds correfpond with the intervals of our musical scale, of which the cuckoo is a ftriking and known inftance; but the greater part of their fong cannot be reduced to a mufical feale; partly, because the rapidity is often fo great, and it is alfo fo uncertain when they may ftop, that we cannot reduce the paffages to form a musical bar in any time whatsoever; partly alfo, because the pitch of moft birds is confiderably higher than the moft fhriil notes of thofe inftruments which have the greateft compafs; and principally becaufe the intervals used by birds are commonly fo SONGHOA, a town of Corea; se mile of Hoang. SONGIEU, a town of France, in the de the Ain; 134 miles N. of Belley. SONGISH. adj. [from fong.] Contai fongs; confifting of fongs. A low word.fongi part must abound in the foftuels and riety of numbers. Dryden. SONG-KIANG, à city of China, of the rank, in the prov. of Kiang-nan, in the mid feveral rivers and canais, by which veifeis proach it every way. It has a great trade ton cloth, and comprehends 4 towns of rank. It is 500 miles S. of Pekin. Lon. 1 E. Ferro. Lat. 31. o. N. SONG-MEN-CHAN, an inland of China, on coast of the prov. of Tche-kiang. Lon. 139. ↑ Ferro. Lat. 28. 22. N. (1.) SONGO, a town of Africa, in Mandi near the coat of the Gambia. minute, that we cannot judge of them from the of Oife; 7 miles SW. of Grandvilliers, an more grofs intervals into which we divide our NW. of Beauvais. mufical o&tave. This writer apprehends, that all bids ling in the fame key; and found by a night ingale, as well as a robin which was educated under him, that the notes reducible to our intervals of the octave were always precifely the fame. Moft people, who have not attended to the notes of birds, fuppofe, that every species fing exactly the fame notes and paffages: but this is not true; though there is a general refemblance. Thus the London bird-catchers prefer the fong of the Kentish goldfinches, and Effex chaffinches; and fome of the nightingale-fanciers prefer a Surry bird to thofe of Middlex. Of ali finging birds, the fong of the nightingale has been moft univerfaliy admired; and its fuperiority confifts in the follow. ing particulars; its tone is much more meilow than that of any other bird, though at the fame time, by a proper exertion of its mufical powers, it can be very brilliant. Another fuperiority is its continuance of fong without a paufe, which is icmetimes 20 feconds; and when refpiration be. comes necellary, it takes it with as much juegment as an opera finger. The fky lark in this particular, as well as in compafs and variety is only fecond to the nightingale. The nightingale alo fings with judgment and tafte. Mr Barrington days, that his nightingale began foftly like the ancient orators; referving its breath to fweli certain notes, which thus had a moft aflonishing effect. He adds, that the notes of birds, which are annually imported from Aña, Africa, and America, both lingly and in concert, are not to be compared to thofe of European birds. He has alfo formed a table to exhibit the comparative merits of the British finging birds; wherein 20 being the point of perfection, he states the nightingale at 19; the wood lark and iky lark at 18; the black-cap at 14; the titlark, Hnnet, goldfinch, and robin at a; with fome variations refpe&ing mellownels, prightlinefs, execution, &c. for which, with the proportional differences of other birds, we refer to his work. 6. SONG OF SOLOMON. (See SCRIPTURE, Sea. III.) It is furprifing, that fome, who pretend to be Chriftians, confider this poem as merely an epi, thalamium, compofed for Solomon's marriage with the princes of Egypt. Had not the ancient Jews, as well as modern Chriftians, confidered it as a divine ALLEGORY, representing the union. of the Meffiah with his church, it would never have found a place in the facred canon; and our Saviour himself, when on earth, would have exclaimed against it, and denounced it, as he did the corrupt traditions of the Pharifees. His trequent centures of thefe traditions, and his general approbation of the Old Testament Scriptures, by frequently quoting them without any cenfure, afford us the most decifive authority and fecurity of truing to them as genume, and holding them facred. SÓNGAR, in zoology. See Mus, f III, N° 25. SONGARI; 1. A town of Chinele Tartary, ic miles NW. of Fe-Petouse: 2. A river which runs into the AMUR. SONGEONS, a town of France, in the dep. (2.) SONGO, a river of the United State Mame, formed by the junction of two head ters, which unite in Raymond town,' 3 miles f Schago. * SONGSTER. n. f. [from fong. A fin Ufed of human fingers; it is a word of fi contempt.-The pretty fong fters of the p with their various notes. Howel.-Some forg can no more fing in any chamber but ther than fome clerks read in any book but their o L'Erange. Either fonger ho ding out their throats. D * SONGSTRESS. n. J. (from fong.] A fen finger The fober-fuited fong ftrefs trills her lay. Thom SONG-TSI, a town of China, in Hou-quing. SONG YANG, a town of China, in Tche-kat SONIFEROUS. adj. [fonus, Latin. Giv or bringing found. Let the lubject matter founds be what it will; either the atmosphere, the etherial part thereof, or foniferous particks bodies. SON-IN-LAW. n. f. One married to on daughter. Your fon-in-law is far more than black. S Drya SONKAAS, a people who inhabit the S. pa of Amica' on the N. of the Cape of Good Hop Their country is mountainous, and they live hunting, with the addition of roots to their a mal tood. The women are as expert as the mo Their buts are made of the branches of trees i terwoven and covered with rushes. SONNA, a book of the Mahometan tradition which the orthodox of the mulluimen are requi ed to believe. SONNEBECK, a town of the French empi in the dep. of the Lys, and late prov. of Auftria Flanders; 5 miles NE. of Ypres. (1.) SONNEBERG, a town of Germany, Upper Saxony; in Saxe Coburg; 6 miles NE. Coburg. (3-4.)SONNEBERG, 2 towns and acounty of Im реп perial Auftria: 1. A town, capital of, (2.) a coun- terres and flower-gardens are epigrammatifts and ty fo named, 23 miles S. of Bregentz: 3. A town fonneteers in this art. Spectator. 1: miles SSW. of Laab, and 22 NW. of Vienna. Lon. 33. 50. E. Ferro. Lat. 48. 29. N. SONNEBURG. See SUNNEBURG. SONNECQUE, a river of the French empire, in the dep. of the Dyle, and c-devant prov. of Auftrian Brabant; which runs into the Senne, miles above Halle. SONNEG, a town of Germany, in the duchy of Corinthia: 2 miles S. of Eberndorff. SONNENBERG, a town of Silefia. SONNENSTEIN. See SONNESTFIN.. SONÑERATIA, in botany; a genus of plants belonging to the clafs of icofandria, and to the order of monogynia. The calyx is cut into fix fegments; the petals are fix; the capfule is mulbilocular and fucculent; and the cells contain many feeds. The only species is SONNERATIA ACIDA. SONNESTEIN, a town and fortrefs of Germany, in Upper Saxony, in the margraviate of Meiffen, near Pirna. Between this fort and that of Konigstein, the Saxon army, of 17,500 men were entrenched in 1756; but, on their attempting to pafs the Elbe, into Bohemia, were compiled by the Pruffians, under Frederick the Great, to furrender prifoners of war. See PRUSSIA, j iz. (1.) * SONNET. n. f. [ fannet, French, fonnetto, Italian]. A fhort poem confifting of 14 lines, of which the rhymes are adjusted by a particular rule. It is not very fuitable to the English lanage, and has not been used by any man of eminence fince Milton, of whofe fonnets this is a fpecimen. A book was writ of late call'd TETRACHOR DON, And woven clofe, both matter, form, and ftile; The fubject new; it walk'd the town a-white, Numb'ring good intellects, now feidom por'd on : Cries the ftall-reader, Blefs us, what a word A title-page is this! and fome in file End-green. Why is it harder, firs, than Colkitto, or Macdonnel, or Galafp? Those rugged names to our like mouths grow fleek, That would have made Quintilian ftare and rasp: Thy age like ours, foul of fir John Check, Hated not learning worse than toad or afp, When thou taught'ft Cambridge and king Edward Greek, Milton. 2. A fmail poem. I have a fonnet that will ferve the turn. Shak. (1.) The SONNET, in poetry, must contain 14 verfes, viz. two ftanzas or measures of four verses each, and two of three, the 8 firft verfes being all in three rhimes. ⚫ SONNETTEER. n.f. Ifonnetier, Fr. from fornet. A finall poet in contempt.-I am fure I fhail turn fonneteer. Shak.-Your makers of par What woful ftuff this madrigal would be, In fome starv'd hackney finnetteer or me? SONNEWALDE, a town of Germany, in the electorate of Saxony; to miles S. of Luckaw, and 48. S, of Berlin. SONNITES, among the Mahometans, an appellation given to the orthodox muffulmen or true believers; in oppofition to the feveral heretica fects, particularly the Shiites or followers of Aii. See MOTOUALIS, MUSSULMAN, 2; and SHII Sonorous metal blowing martial founds. Milt. 2. High founding; magnificent of found.—The I-. talian opera has fomething beautiful and fonorous in the expreffion. Addifon. * SONOROUSLY. adv. [from fonorous.] With high found; with magnificence of found. * SONOROUSNESS. n. f. [from jonorous.] 1. The quality of giving found.-Enquiring of a maker of viols and lutes of what age he thought Intes ought to be, to attain their full and beft feafoning for fonoroufnels, he replied, That in fome 20 years would be requifite, and in others 40. Boyle. 2. Magnificence of found. SONSBECK, a town of Germany, in the cidevant duchy of Cleves, now included in the French empire and department of the Roer; II miles SSE. of Cleves. SONSECA, a town of Spain, in New Caftile; 8 miles S. of Toledo. * SONSHIP. n. f. [from fon.] Filiation; the character of a fon. The apoftie to the Hebrews makes afflictions the badge and cognizance of fonfhip. Decay of Piety. SONSINO. See SONCINO. SONSONATE, a fea port town and bay on the coast of Mexico. SONTAG, a town of Germany, in Stiria. SONTHONNAX, a town of France, in the dep. of Ain; 6 miles NW. of Nantua, and 6 E. of Treffort, SONTRA, a town of Germany, in Heffe Rhine. fels; 28 miles S. of Caffel, and 22 WSW. of Mul haufen. SONZAY, a town of France, in the dep. of Indre and Loire, 12 miles N. of Tours. SOODERA, or in Indian mythology and poSOODERS, lity, the 4th caft, or the loweft class of the people. (See GENToos, and HixN. Doos, § z.) The PARIAS are the lowest clafs of the Sooders; but there is a still more degrated clefs of the Parias, cailed SERIPERES, who are miferably X 1 defp.fed. defpifed. (See PARIAS.) What monstrous diftinctions human pride has invented in all countries! SOOJU, or Soy. See Soy. SOOLOO, an ifland in the E. Indian Ocean, one of the PHILIPPINES; about 30 miles long,and 12 broad. It contains about 60,000 inhabitants, who are MALAYS and Mahometans, and are governed by a king or fultan. The English E. India Company have an agent refiding in it. It abounds with thofe fingular productions, the edible birds nefts; (fee BIRD'S-NEST, 4.) and the coaft abounds with pearis; but the principal production for trade is fago. Soolon is fituated about 42 SW..of Mindanao, and 42 NE. of Borneo; lying nearly mid-way between them. Lon. 121. 25. E. Lat. . 58. N. * SOON, adv. [funs, Gothick; fona, Saxon; faen, Dutch.] 1. Before long time be paft; fhortly after any time afligned or fuppofed. Their general's voice they yoon obey'd. Milt. You must obey me, foon or late. Dryden. 2. Early before any time fuppofed: opposed to later O boy! thy father gave thee life too soon. Shak. -Do this, that I may be reftored to thee the Jooner. Heb. xiii.-How is it that you are come fo Joon to day? Ex. ii. 18.-Not that the later cometh fooner. Bacon. 3. Readily; willingly.-I would as foon lee a river winding through woods and meadows. Addison.. 4. It has in Sidney the fignification of an adjective, whether licentiously or according to the custom of his time.-After thefe wars, of which they hope for a foon and profperous iffue. Sidney. 5. Soon as. Immediately; at the very time. As joon as he came nigh unto the camp. Ex. xxxii. 19. Nor was his virtue poifon'd foon as born. Dryden. -Feafts, and business, and pleasures and enjoyments, feem great things to us; but as soon as we add death to them, they all fink into an equal littlenefs. Law. SOONAM, or SUNNAM, a town of Hindooftan, in Delhi: 130 miles WNW. of Delhi. SOONDA, a province of Hindoostan, in Myfore. (See MYSORE, N° 1.) It lies between Ca. nara and Concan; and is about 40 miles long from N. to S. and 30 broad from E. to W. *SOONLY. adv. [from foon.] Quickly; speedily. This word I remember in no other piace; but if foon be, as it feems once to have been, an adjective foonly is proper. A mafon meets with a. ftone that wants no cutting, and, feonly approving of it, places it in his work. More. SOONTABURDAR, 2. f. in the Eaft Indies; an attendant, who carries a filver biudgeon in his hand about 2 or 3 feet long, and runs before the palanquin. He is inferior to the Chubdar; the propriety of an Indian newaury requiring two Soontaburdars for every Chubdar in the train, The Chubdar proclaims the approach of visitors, &c. He generalry carries a large filver ftaff about 5 feet long in his hands: and among the Nabobs he proclaims their praifes aloud as he runs before their palanquins! (1.) * SQOPBERRY. n. f. Į sapindus, Latin.] A plant. Miller. (2.) SooPBERRY is evidently a typographical error of Mr Miller's printer, for SOAPBERRY, and therefore ought not to have been inferted as an English word by Dr JOHNSON, uniefs merely to correct the error, which the Dr feems not to have thought of. See SAPINDUS. (1.) SOOR, SUR, or TSUR, a town of Arabia,. in Oman; 280 miles SW. of Mascat. (2.) Soon, a name of the INDUS between Attock and Moultan. SOORANGUR, a town of Hindooftan, in O. riffa, near the Mahanada, 200 miles E. of Nagpour, and 275 W. of Calcutta. SOORJEW. See GOGRA. (1.) * SOOT. n. f. { fet, Saxon; foot, Inlandick; foet, Dutch.] Condenfed or embodied fmoke.Soot is a very good compoft. Bacon-If the fire be not kept within the tunnel, and fome appoint. ed to fweep down the foot, the houfe will be in danger of burning. Hoel. With hatefulieft difrelish, writh'd their jaws, With foot and cinders fill'. Each from his venerable face fhall brufh The Macedonian foot. Dryden. (2.) So is a.volatile matter arifing from wood and other fuel along with the finoke; or rather, it is the finoke itself condensed and gathered to the fides of the chimney. Though once volatile, how ever, foot cannot be again refolved into vapour; but, if diftilled by a frong fire, yields a volatile alkali and empyreumatic oil, a confiderable quat tity of fixed matter remaining at the bottom of the difti.ling veffel. If burnt in an open fire, it flames with a thick fmoke, whence other foot is pro duced. It is ufed as a material for making fal ammoniac, and as a manure. See CHEMISTRY, Index. (3.) SOOT BLACK. See COLOUR-MAKING, Fad. SOOTED. adj. [from foot.] Smeared, manured, or covered with foot. The land was footed before. Mortimer. SOOTERKIN. ». f. A kind of false birth fabled to be produced by the Dutch women from fitting over their stoves. Scuif. For after-birth, a footerkin.. (1) Soorн. adj. [foth, Saxon.] Pleafing; de lightful. The footeft hepherd that e'er pip'd on plains. Milton (2.) SOOTH. n. f. foth, Saxon.] Truth; re ality. Obfolete. Sir, understand you this of me in factb. "Shak. Shak. If I have any skil in foothfaying, as in footh have none. Camden.-The very footh of it is, that an ill habit has the force of an ill fate. L'E trange. For, feath to fay, I hold it noble in you To cherish the diftrefs'd. (3.)* SOOTH. n. Sweetnefs; kindness. This feems to be the meaning here. That e'er this tongue of mine, That led the fentence of dread banishment On yond proad man, should take it off again With words of footh *To SOOTH. v. a. [gefothian, Saxon.] flatter; to pleafe with blandifliments. Shak. In |