SOL 



The word is fometimes alfo ufed for the privilege of 

 tenants excufed from cuftomary impofitioHs. 



Alfo for a quit-rent, or payment made to the lord by 

 his tenant, for afting in quality of foe-man, or freeholder. 



See Socage. r r, n- t ■ 



SOKALLEN, in Geography, a town of Ruiliaii 1.1- 



thuania ; 9 miles S. of Ragnit. 



SOKASPOGE, a town of the ftate of Georgia ; 4 miles 



N.E. ofOakfuftee. 



SOKE, in Rural Economy, an ancient term, ufed to 

 fignify the privilege of mills, &c. By it the lord, in certain 

 cafes, was enabled to raife a confiderable rent. 



SoKE-Mi//, that kind of mill which belongs to the lord 

 or fuperior of the manor, and at which all the tenants, and 

 fometimes the whole parilh, are bound to grind their grain. 

 Mills of this nature were once very common, and they exill 

 (till in a few places. 



SOKELY, in Geography, a town of Norway, in the 

 province of Bergen ; 24 miles S.W. of Romfdal. 



SOKEMANS. See Socmen. 



SOKER, in Geography, a fmall ifland in the Red fea ; 

 3 miles E. of Dsjabbel. 



SOKE-REEVE, in our Old Writers, the lord's rent- 

 gatherer in the fake, or foien. 



SOKHIO, in the Materia Medica, a name ufed by fome 

 authors for a peculiar fpecies, if it may be fo called, of the 

 lignum aloes. 



It is of a greyifh colour, and feems to have been the blea, 

 or outer part of the wood next the bark. 



SOKO, in Geography, a diilrift of Africa, on the Gold 

 Coaft, extending about a league along the fea-coaft, on the 

 borders of the river Volta. The land is fertile, but the 

 inhabitants are poor, and employ themfelves chiefly in 

 filhing. 



SOKOLMA, a town of Poland, in Volhynia ; 12 

 miles N. of Luckow. 



SOKOLOW, a town of Poland, in PodoHa ; 54 miles 

 N.W. of Kaminiec. 



SOKOLOWKA, a town of Auftrian Poland, in Ga- 

 licia ; 20 miles S. of Lemberg. 



SOKOLVOD, or Knezdo, a mountain of Croatia ; 32 

 miles E. of Bihacs. 



SOKOR ZOK, a town of Armenia, fituated on a fmall 

 hill, equally diftant from Betlis and Diarbekir, governed by 

 a powerful, independent, and hereditary prince, who has 

 under his orders many different tribes of Kurds, Yezedis, 

 and Turkomans, of a martial and barbarous difpofition, 

 and who, it is faid, can bring an army of 20,000 men into 

 the iield. The climate of this place is lefs fevere than that 

 of BetHs ; the di(tri<?ts are extenfive, and covered with 

 villages, but the population of the town does not exceed 

 6000 fouls. South of Zok is the town of Sahert, or 

 Serud ; which fee. 



SOKOTKA, a town of Lithuania; 15 miles S.W. of 

 Grodno. 



SOL, a fyllable in the firll elements of vocal mufic, 

 which, in major keys, always implies the 5th above the 

 key-note : as, do re mi fa fol ; or do—fol. 



Sol, or Sou, Shilling, in Commerce, a French coin, ac- 

 cording to the old lyftem, which prevailed before the 

 revolution, of billon, i. e. of copper with a little filver 

 mixed, equal to twelve deniers, or Frencli pence, or four 

 liards ; and the twentieth part of the livre Tournois, or 

 pound. See Shilling. 



The word is formed from the Latin, foTidu:, a (hilling. 

 Bodin is miltaken when he derives it a fole, by reafon of the 

 fun (truck on it. 



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The fol was firft ftruck on the foot of twelve deniers Tour, 

 nois, whence it was alfo called douzain, a name it after- 

 wards retained, though its ancient value was changed ; the 

 fol having been fince augmented by three deniers, and 

 ftruck with a puncheon of a fleur-de-lis, to make it current 

 for fifteen deniers. Soon after the old fols were coined 

 over again, and both old and new were indiflTerently made 

 current for fifteen deniers. In 1709, the value of the fame 

 fols was raifed to eighteen deniers. Towards the latter end 

 of the reign of Louis XIV. the fols of eighteen deniers 

 were again lowered to fifteen. The fol of fifteen deniers 

 was called fol Parifis. According to the old fyftem, the 

 filver coins in France were the ecu, or crown of fix livres ; 

 the petit ecu, or half-crown (alfo called ecu) of three 

 livres : pieces of twenty-four, twelve, and fix fous ; alfo 

 pieces of two fous and fix liards, or one and a half fou, 

 containing five parts of filver to nineteen of copper ; and 

 pieces (entirely copper) of one fou, two liards, and one 

 liard, or twelve, fix, and three deniers. The piece of 

 twenty-four fous, compared in finenefs witii the Englifh 

 ftandard of 1 1 oz. 2 dwts., is W. o dr. 7 dwt., its weight 

 3 dr. 20 gr., its content in pure filver is 83.4 gr., and its 

 value in iterling is i i\d. The pieces of twelve and fix 

 fous are in proportion. The piece of thirty fous of 1791 

 is W. 3 oz. 8 dwt., its weight 6 dwt. 12 gr., its contents in 

 pure filver 100.2 gr., and its value in fterling \s. 2d. The 

 piece of fifteen fous is in proportion. 



In old authors we read of gold fols, which were different 

 at different times. In the time of the Salic law, the gold 

 fol was forty deniers ; and thus it continued till the time 

 of king Pepin, when it was reduced to twelve. Some 

 have alfo imagined, that the French had anciently filver 

 fols. 



The Dutch have alfo two kinds of fols : the one of filver, 

 called fols de gros, and likewife fchelUng ; the other of 

 copper, called alfo \.\ie Jluyver. See Coin. 



The fol, or fou, is alfo a money of account and copper 

 coin in Switzerland. 



Sol, in AJlrology, isfc. fignifies the fun. Sol in Aries, 

 8tc. See Sun. 



Sol, Sun, in Chemiftry, is gold ; thus called from an 

 opinion that this metal is, in a particular manner, under the 

 influence of that luminary. 



What (hould have been the principal inducement of tor- 

 turing this metal, with fo much violence, to obtain from 

 it fome medicinal virtues. Dr. Quincy obferves, is not eafy 

 to be gueffcd. 



Molt, indeed, acknowledge, that gold in fubftance, or 

 reduced into the fmalleft particles by the hammer, as in the 

 leaf-gold, is not digeftible in the ftomach, fo as to be 

 tranfmitted into the blood, and be of any efficacy there. 

 But there are neverthelefs many, who are confident of its 

 doing extraordinary matters, if reduced into a powder, by 

 amalgamation with mercury, and by evaporating the mer- 

 cury afterwards. 



Zacutus Lufitanus is one of the fmarteil pleaders on this 

 fide the controverfy, againll Mufa, Picus Mirandola, and 

 Platerus ; who, beiides many inltances of its efficacy, urges 

 the authority of Avicen, Serapion, Geber, and many of the 

 Arabian phyficians, with thofe of other countries, and of 

 later date. Quercetan, Schroder, Zwelfer, and EtmuUer, 

 with many other more modern pra£tical phyficians, have 

 fallen into the fame opinion. But which iide foever is 

 right, the prefent praAice rejefts all pretcnfions to medicines 

 from it. See Gold, in Medicine and Chemiftry. 



Sol, in the Hermetical Philofophy, fignifies fulphur. 



Sol, 



