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Thus it is; this is the state. 
How sorrow shakes him ! 
So, now the tempest tears him up by the roots, 
And on the ground extends the noble ruin. Dryden. 
At this point; at this time. 
When 
With wild wood-leaves and weeds I ha’ strew’d his grave 
And on it said a century of prayers. 
Such as I can, twice o’er, I’ll weep and sigh ; 
And, leaving so his service, follow you. Shakspeare. 
It notes a kind of abrupt beginning. Well. 
O, so, and had you a council 
Of ladies too ? Who was your speaker. 
Madam ? B. Jotison. 
It sometimes is little more than an expletive, though it im¬ 
plies some latent or surd comparison. In French si. —An 
astringent is not quite so proper, where relaxing the urinary 
passages is necessary. Arbuthnot. —A word of assumption; 
thus be it.—I will never bear a base mind: if it be my des¬ 
tiny, so; if it be not, so. No man is too good to serve his 
prince. Shakspeare. —A form of petition. 
Ready are the appellant and defendant. 
The armourer and his man, to enter the lists, 
So please your highness to behold the fight. Shakspeare. 
So forth. Denoting more of the like kind.—Is not birth, 
beauty, good shape, discourse, manhood, learning, and so 
forth, the spice and salt that season a man ? Shakspeare .— 
So much as. However much. This is, I think, an irregular 
expression.— So much as you admire the beauty of his verse, 
his prose is full as good. Pope. —So so. An exclamation 
after something done or known. Corrupted, I think, from 
cessez. 
I would not have thee linger in thy pain: 
So so. Shakspeare. 
So so. [cost, cost, Italian.] Indifferently; not much amiss 
nor well. 
He's not very tall; yet for his years he's tall; 
His leg is but so, so : and yet ’tis well. Shakspeare. 
So then. Thus then it is that; therefore. 
So then the Volscians stand but as at first 
Ready, when time shall prompt them, to make road 
Upon’s again. Shakspeare. 
SOA, a small island of the Hebrides, above a mile in 
circumference, lying near the remote island of St. Kilda. 
SOA, a settlement in the island of Cuba ; 60 miles north 
of St. Jago. 
SOAGHUN, a town of Hindostan, province of Malwah, 
belonging to the Mahrattas. Lat. 23. 12. N. long. 74. 
50. E. 
To SOAK, v. a. [pocian, Saxon.] To macerate in any 
moisture; to steep ; to keep wet till moisture is imbibed ; to 
drench. 
Many of our princes 
Lie drown’d and soak'd in mercenary blood : 
So do our vulgar drench their peasant limbs 
In blood of princes. Shakspeare. 
To drain ; to exhaust. This seems to be a cant term, 
perhaps used erroneously for suck. —-"Plants that draw much 
nourishment from the earth, and soak and exhaust it, hurt all 
things that grow by them. Bacon. 
To SOAK, v. n. To lie steeped in moisture. 
For thy conceit in soaking will draw in 
More than the common blocks. Shakspeare. 
To enter by degrees into pores.—Lay a heap of earth in 
great frosts upon a hollow vessel, putting a canvas between, 
and pour water upon it so as to soak through : it will make 
harder ice in the vessel, and .less apt to dissolve than ordina¬ 
rily. Bacon.— To drink gluttonously and intemperately. 
This is a low term. —Let a drunkard see that his health 
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decays, his estate wastes, yet the habitual thirst after his cups 
drives him to the tavern, though he has in his view the loss 
of health and plenty; the least of which he confesses is far 
greater than the tickling of his palate with a glass of wine, 
or the idle chat of a soaking club. Locke. 
SO'AKER, s. One that macerates in any moisture; a 
great drinker. In low language. —A good fellow! a pain¬ 
ful, able, and laborious soaker; — who owes all his good¬ 
nature to the pot and the pipe. South. 
SOAL, s. See Sole. 
SOAL, or Sole, in Ichthyology, called by the generality of 
authors the buglossus ; the Pleuronectes Solea of Linnaeus. 
SOANE, a river of Hindostan, which has its source in the 
vicinity of the famous temple of Omercuntuc, in the province 
of Gundwaneh. It first runs in a northerly direction through 
part of the province of Allahabad ; after which, turning to 
the eastward, it pursues its course towards the Ganges, and 
joins that river 29 miles above the city of Patna, in Bahar, 
after having performed a winding course of about 500 miles. 
It is said formerly to have produced gold, and to have 
received - its name from that circumstance. At present it 
produces a variety of pebbles, particularly a black stone 
called salagram, held in great veneration by Hindoos. It is 
only navigable by large boats during the rainy season; and 
during the other part of the year it is fordable everywhere 
but near the mouth, but is full of quicksands. Some persons 
are of opinion that the Palibothra of the Greeks stood at 
the junction of this river with the Ganges; but at that 
period it was several miles lower down than at present. 
SOANGUR, a town of Hindostan, province of Gujerat, 
district of Surat. It is situated on the south bank of the 
Taptee river, and formerly possessed a strong fort. It 
now belongs to the British. Lat. 21. 10. N. long. 73. 
33. E. 
SOANK, a river of Hindostan, which rises in the pro¬ 
vince of Bahar, and bending its course to the southward, 
falls into the bay of Bengal, a little above point Palmiras. 
SOAP, s. [jape, Saxon; sapo, Lat.] A substance used 
in washing, made of a lixivium of vegetable alkaline ashes 
and any unctuous substance.— Soap is a mixture of a fixed 
alkaline salt and oil; its virtues are cleansing, penetrating, 
attenuating, and resolving ; and any mixture of any oily sub¬ 
stance with salt may be called a soap. Arbuthnot. 
SO'AP-BOILER, s. One whose trade is to make soap.— 
A soap-boiler condoles with me on the duties on castile-soap. 
Addison. 
SO'AP-WORT, s. [japonaria, Lat.] A species of cam¬ 
pion. Miller. 
SO'APY, adj. Resembling soap; having the quality of 
soap.—Tar-water, — as a soapy medicine, dissolves the 
grumous concretions of the fibrous part. Bp. Berkeley. 
To SOAR, v. v. \_sorare, Italian.] To fly aloft; to 
tower; to mount; properly to fly without any visible action 
of the wings. Milton uses it actively. 
’Tis but a base ignoble mind 
That mounts no higher than a bird can soar. Shakspeare. 
To mount intellectually ; to tower with the mind.—How 
high a pitch his resolution soars. Shakspeare. 
To rise high. 
Who aspires must down as low 
As high he soar'd. Milton. 
SOAR, s. Towering flight. 
Within soar 
Of towering eagles, to all the fowls he seems 
A phoenix. Milton. 
SOAR, adj. See Sore. 
SOAR, or Sour, anciently called Leire, a river of Eng¬ 
land, which rises about 5 miles from Lutterworth, passes by 
Leicester, &c., and runs into the Trent on the borders of 
Nottinghamshire, about 3 miles north-north-east of Keg- 
worth. 
SOARING, s. The act of mounting aloft; the act of 
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