song 
lirst and last linna nearly the same, and the sec 1 hei,,,- 
eontrasted with the first.- Song of degrees. See ,/. 
-Song of Solomon, Song of Songs, c:u,ti,-i,s ,., , 
ffn 't '.T 8 ! 011 ? of , ^ he T ? ree Ho] y Children, an add! 
tlon to the bool of Daniel, found in the Septnaglnt and 
in the Apocrypha, purporting to he the player and son,; 
ff^ffi^ftriSSS 
^s^f^ t rfc nd ^ t tM i i^ 
Hinp HTlntho** onn<v W.... ~,,,. /o Drt 
mg. (See also etea-mmj, 
song-t. A Middle English preterit of ximi 
song-bird (s6ng'berd), n. A bird that sings ; a 
singing bird, or songster. 
Song-book (song'buk), . [< ME. 'xonabok, < 
AH. saiigboc, a song-book, music-book, a book 
of canticles and hymns (= D. gangbock = MLG 
sankbok = G. gesangbucb = Icel. sow/M- = Sw 
ringbolt = Dan. sangbog, a song-book), < / 
song + 66 C , book.] 1. A collection of Bonn 
or other vocal music forming a book or volume 
specifically, a hymn-book. 2. In the Anglo- 
Saxon church, the portass or breviary. 
r>7t','.l 
eastern half of the country then- are seven] oil 
or varieties in the esl, the .,, ,!,.,,,., ,',, h lchVthe 
Ko'li.ilooni.'si.arrou, U.dnena. Thee m 
. inches loni-an, - wing., and the maffi 
he breast are gathered n.loa elm, actc, ishc pect.,,,,1 spot 
It nests on the ground, and 
Uyl tour or live spotted 
ami doodad eggs. Ms 
song Is remarkahh 
and hearty, ami tlie (ikon 
little bird is deservedly 
a great favorite. It is 
alsc. called tilm-.li:,, 
Oregon song-sparrow, 
MttatjmafamalaijvHata, 
a western variety" of the 
common song-sparrow. 
songster (snng'ster), 
< AS. "sangestre, 
sangistre, xdin/i/sti-f , 
a female singer, < 
xntig, song, + fern. 
sonometer 
S|l. |V. ,./ _ [) siimili,, ', I'], aim I. :i *i,n\> 
(~> d. Sw. sum-It Dun. xi, m I. M .sonnet, Canzo- 
net 1. llilll. of sail, sIMlml. time. Mlllg. < I.. ,,,,,,x, 
;i sound: y.ff xtiiiiiil~>.\ 1. A -.nig; :il.;ilh. 
short poem. 
I have a tunnel that will serve the turn 
shalr., -r. <;. of v., H 
*, Church of our Fathers, III. il. 20. 
song-craft (song'kraft), ti. [A mod. revived 
iorm of AS. sangerieft, the art of singing, the 
art of poetry, < sang, song, + craft, art, craft.] 
ine art of composing songs; skill in versifica- 
tion. 
Written with little skill of song-craft. 
Longfdlow, Hiawatha, Int. 
songert, . [< ME. songere, < AS. sauqere (= D 
MMpra.OHGr. sangar'i, MHG. sender, G. ganger 
= Icel. songmri = Dan. ganger = Sw. s&ngare), 
a singer, psalmist, < n0, song: see sonol. Cf 
singerl and songster.'] A singer. 
songewariet, . [ME., < OP. "songewarie, ob- 
servation of dreams, < songe (< L. somnium), 
dream, + warir, guard, keep: see u>arel.j The 
observation or interpretation of dreams. 
Ac I haue no sauoure in songewarie, for I see it ofte faille. 
Pien Plowman (B), vii. 148. 
songful (sdng'ful), a. [< song* + -ful.] Dis- 
posed or able to sing; melodious. Savage. 
[Rare.] 
SOngish (sdng'ish), a. [< songl + -is7ii.] Con- 
sisting of or containing songs. [Bare.] 
The other, which, for want of a proper English word I 
must call the songish part, must abound in the softness 
and variety of numbers, its principal intention being to 
please the hearing. Dryden, Albion and Albanians, Pref. 
songle (song'gl), . [Formerly also songal, son- 
gow ; a var. of single*, in same sense. ] A hand- 
ful of gleanings. [Prov. Eng.] 
I have just this last week obtained a goodly songle of S. 
Staffordshire words. N. and Q., 7th ser., VIII. 363. 
songless (song'les), a. [< song* + -less.] I. 
Without song; not singing. 
Silent rows the songless gondolier. 
Byron, Childe Harold, iv. 3. 
2. Inornith.: (a) Not singing; unable to sing; 
not a singer: as, the female mocking-bird is 
songless; most birds are songless in winter. 
(6) Having no singing-apparatus, and conse- 
quently unable to sing; not a song-bird; non- 
oscine ; clamatorial or mesomyodian, as a pas- 
serine bird : as, the Mesomyodi, or songless Pas- 
seres. 
songman (sdng'man), n. ; pi. songmcn (-men). 1 . 
A singer, especially a singer of songs ; a glee- 
man. 
She hath made me four and twenty nosegays for the 
shearers, three-man song-men all, and very good ones. 
Shale., W. T.,iv. 3. 45. 
2. A lay vicar. See lay*. 
song-muscle (song'mus"!), n. In ornith., any 
muscle of the syrinx or lower larynx of a bird 
concerned in the act of singing, by the opera- 
tion of which the voice is modulated; any mus- 
cle of vocalization. These syriugeal muscles reach 
their highest development in number and complexity of 
arrangement in the Oscints, Polymyodi, or Acrmnyodi, in 
which group of birds there are normally five pairs the 
tensor posterior longus, tensor anterior longus, tensor pos- 
terior brevis, tensor anterior brevis, and sternotrachealis. 
There is no question of its being by the action of the 
syringeal muscles . . . that the expansion of the bronchi, 
both as to length and diameter, is controlled, and, as 
thereby the sounds uttered by the Bird are modified, they 
are properly called the Song-muscles 
A. Newton, Encyc. Brit., XVIII. 29. 
song-sparrow (sdng'spar'^), . 1. The hedge- 
sparrow, Accentor motlularis. See cut under Ac- 
centor. [Eng.] 2. A small fringilline bird of 
North America, of the genus Melospiza, a sweet 
songster, with a streaked brown, gray, and 
white plumage without, any yellow. The best- 
known is M.fasciata, one of the most familiar birds of the 
who or that which sings or is skilled in singing. 
Every songster had sung out his flt 
B. Jonson, Neptune's Triumph. 
Specifically, in omith. : (a) A singer ; a singing bird (6) 
pi. Specifically, singing birds : the Oscines, Cantores 'Can- 
tdtoTeSf Acrotni/odij or J^olyinijodi 
2. A writer of songs or poems. 
Silk will draw some sneaking songster thither. 
It is a rhyming age, and verses swarm 
t every stall. B. Jonson, An Elegy (Underwoods, Ixi). 
songstress (song'stres), n. [< songster + -ess.] 
A female singer ; also, a female singing bird. 
The trill . . . 
Of that shy songstress, whose love-tale 
Might tempt an angel to descend, 
While hovering o'er the moonlight vale. 
Wordsworth, Power of Sound. 
song-thrush (song'thrush), n. One of the com- 
mon thrushes of Europe, Turdus musiciis; the 
mavis or throstle, closely related to the mistle- 
thrush, redwing and fieldfare, it is 9 inches in 
length, and 14 in extent of wings. The upper parts are 
yellowish-brown, reddening on the head ; the wing-coverts 
are tipped with reddish-yellow; the fore neck and breast 
are yellowish, with brownish-black arrow-heads the low- 
er wing-coverts are reddish-yellow ; and the belly is white 
See cut under thrush. 
sonifaction (son-i-fak'shon), n. [< L. sonus, 
sound, + factio(n-), < facere, produce.] The 
production of sound; a noise-making; espe- 
cially, the stridulation of insects, as distin- 
guished from vocalization: as, the sonifaction 
of the cicada or katydid. 
A mode of sonifactim . . . similar to that where a boy 
runs along a fence pushing a stick against the pickets. 
Stand. Nat. Hist., II. 307. 
sonifer (son'i-fer), n. [< L. sonus, sound, + 
ferre = E. ftearl.] An acoustic instrument for 
collecting sound and conveying it to the ear of 
a partially deaf person. It is a bell or receiver of 
metal, from which the sound-waves are conducted to the 
ear by a flexible pipe. E. ll. Knight. 
soniferous (so-uif'e-rus), a. [< L. sonus, sound, 
-I- ferre = E. bearl.] Conveying or producing 
sound. 
son-in-law (sun'in-la"), n. [< ME. sone in lawe : 
see sonl and fowl.] The husband of one's daugh- 
ter. 
sonless (sun'les), a. [< sojji + -less.] Having 
no son ; without a son. 
If the Emperour die son-lesge, a successor is chosen of 
such a spirit as their present affaires do require. 
Sandys, Travalles, p. 183. 
sonnet, n. A Middle English form of sun*. 
SOnnekint, . [Early mod. E., later "sonkin, 
< sonl + -kin.'] A little son. [Nonce-word.] 
iraiti'oi', sonne/dn, or litle sonne. 
Udall, tr. of Apophthegms of Erasmus, p. 233, note. 
Sonneratia (son-e-ra'shi-a), n. [NL. (Linnreus 
filius, 1781), named after P. Sonnerat (1745- 
1814), a French traveler and naturalist.] A ge- 
nus of polypetalous plants, of the order Lytlira- 
rieee and tribe Lytlireee. it is characterized by flow- 
ers having a bell-shaped calyx with from four to eight 
lobes, as many small petals or sometimes none, numerous 
stamens, and a many-celled ovary which becomes a round- 
ish berry stipitate in the calyx and filled with a granular 
pulp. It includes 5 or e species, natives of tropical shores, 
chiefly in eastern Africa and Asia, also in .Madagascar and 
Australia. They are smooth-branched trees or shrubs, 
with opposite coriaceous oblong entire and almost vein- 
less leaves, and large bract less flowers in terminal clusters 
of three each or solitary in the axils. 5. apetala, a tree of 
40 feet, growing in Indian mangrove-swamps flooded by 
the tide, has the name of kambala (which see). S. acida, 
with a height of 15 feet, grows in large masses in similar 
situations ranging further east : its leaves are the food of 
a silkworm, and its acid and slightly bitter fruit is used 
as a condiment. 
sonnet (son'et), n. [Early mod. E. also som-tti- : 
= D. sonnet, < F. sonnet, OF. sonet, a song, = 
K. Robinum, Come. Thou I .',,, ,t of livery Blessing. 
Sp,-eili,.;i||y 2. A short |H(i-ni in fixed form, 
limited to fourteen lines with n pivseribi-d ,|i-,- 
jxisit ion of rlaiM. The form Is of Italian origin A 
t is generally written in decasyllabic or five foot mea- 
sure; but it may be written in octoujll nsisls 
of two divisions or groups of lines (1) a major group of 
eight lines or two quatrain*, and (2) a minor group of six 
lines or two tercets. The quatrains arc arranged thus- 
a, b, b, a; a, b, b, a; the tenets, either c. d, c, d, e d' 
ore, d, t, c, d, e. In modern French example* the order 
of the (ends is generally c, c, d, e, d, t. There are vari- 
ous deviations imm the sonnet as thus described' but 
by jinrists the above Is regarded as the orthodox form, es- 
tablished by long practice and prescription, all others be- 
ing ranked simply as quatorzalns, or what Lamb called 
fourteeners. With regard to the material of the poem it 
is generally considered thatitshould be the expression of 
a single thought, idea, or sentiment. 
I can beste allowe to call those Sonnett whlche are of 
fouretene lynes, euery line conteyning tenne syllable* 
Gascoigne, Notes on Eng. Verse (ed. Arber), 1 14. 
sonnet (son'et), . [< sonnet, .] I. trans. 1. 
To celebrate in sonnets. [Rare.] 
Daniel hath divinely sonnetted the matchless beauty of 
Delia. Francis Meres, in Arber's Eng. Garner, II. 96. 
2. To cover or fill with sonnets. [Rare.] 
Hee will be an Inamorato Poeta, and sonnet a whole quire 
of paper In praise of Ladle Manibetter, his yeolowfac'd 
m ' 8tre! >- Nashe, Pierce Penilewe, p. 17. 
II. intrans. To compose sonnets. 
Nor list I sonnet of my mistress' face, 
1 o paint some Blowesse with a borrow'd grace 
lip. Uall, Satire*, I. L 5. 
sonneteer, sonnetteer (son-e-ter'), n. [< it. 
sonettiere (= Sp. sonetero), a composer of son- 
nets, < sonetto, a sonnet: see sonnet.] A com- 
poser of sonnets or small poems: usually with a 
touch of contempt. 
Our little sonnetteers . . . have too narrow souls to 
Judge of poetry. Drydm, All for Love, Pref. 
The noble sonnetteer would trouble thee no more with 
his madrigals. Wycherley, Plain Dealer, i. 1. 
sonneteer, sonnetteer (son-e-ter'), v. i. [< 
sonneteer, it.] To compose sonnets; rime. 
Rhymers sonneteering in their sleep. Mrs. Browning. 
In the very height of that divine sonneteering love of 
Laura. Lowell, Among my Books, 1st ser., p. 368. 
sonnetingt (son'et-ing), . [Verbal n. of son- 
net, !.] 1. The making or composing of son- 
nets, as in praise or celebration of something; 
the writing of poetry. 
Tut : he is famous for his revelling, 
For flne set speeches, and for sonnetUng. 
Marston, Satires, i. 42. 
Two whole pages . . . praise the Remonstrant even to 
the sonettiny of his fresh cheeks, quick eyes, round tongue, 
agil hand, and nimble invention. 
Milton, Apology for Smectymnnns. 
2. Song; singing. 
Leavie groves now mainely ring 
With each sweet bird's sonneting 
W. Bromie, Thyrsis' Praise to his Mistress. 
sonnetist, sonnettist (son'et-ist), n. [= PJ?. 
sonetista; as sonnet + -ist.] A sonneteer. 
The prophet of the heav'nly lyre, 
Great Solomon, sings in the English quire; 
And is become a new-found sonnetut. 
Bp. Hall, Satires, I. vllL 9. 
SOnnetize (son'et-iz), v. ; pret. and pp. tonnrt- 
ized,pTjr.sonnetizi>tg. [< sonnet + -ise.] I. in- 
tranx. To compose sonnets. 
II. trans. To make the subject of a sonnet; 
celebrate in a sonnet. 
Now could I sonnetize thy piteous plight 
Southey, Nondescript*, v. 
sonnetteer, sonnettist. Seesonneteer,gonnetist. 
sonnet-writer (sou'et-ri'ter), n. A writer of 
sonnets; a sonneteer. 
sonnisht, a. See sunnixlt. 
Sonnite, . See Sunnite. 
sonny (sun'i), n. [Dim. of ol.] A familiar 
form of address in speaking to a boy. 
strike him, sonny, strike him ! 
New Princeton Ret., V. 371. 
Sonoma oak. An oak, Quernm h't-lloggii (Q. 
SouMMUfe), of the mountains of Oregon and 
California. It Is a tree of moderate size, valued chiefly 
as fuel, but famishing also some tan-bark. 
Sonometer (so-nom'e-ter), . [< L. HHIIHK, 
sound, + Or. 'fiirpov, measure.] 1. An appa- 
ratus used in experimenting upon musical 
