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wan eh, situated on the south side of the Mahanuddy river. 
Lat. 20. 47. N. long. 83. 45. E. 
SOHO', interj, A form of calling from a distant place; 
a sportsman’s halloo. 
Laun. So-ho ! so-ho ! 
Prot. What seest thou ? 
Laun. Him we go to find. Shakspeare, 
SOHO, the name of the celebrated and extensive manu¬ 
factory in England, of Messrs. Boulton and Watt, near Bir¬ 
mingham. 
SOIGNIES, an inland town of the Netherlands, in the 
province of Hainault, on the small river Senne. It has 
4700 inhabitants, and in the neighbourhood is a small forest 
(distinct from that of Soigne), to which it gives name; 
7 miles north-east of Mons, and 25 south-west of Brussels. 
To SOIL, v. a. [j’ylian, Sax.; su/en. Germ.; souiller, 
Fr.; sauljan, bisauljan, Goth.] To foul; to dirt; to 
pollute ; to stain; to sully. 
I would not soil these pure ambrosial weeds, 
With the rank vapours of this sin-worn mould. Milton. 
To dung; to manure.—Men now present, just as they 
soil their ground, not that they love the dirt, but that they 
expect a crop. South. —To soil a horse ; to purge him by 
giving him grass in the spring. [Dr. Johnson refers this 
meaning to the Fr. saouler, to glut.]—The soiled horse. 
Shakspeare . 
SOIL, s. Dirt; spot; pollution; foulness. 
Vexed I am with passions. 
Which give some soil perhaps to my behaviour. 
Shakspeare. 
[Sol, Fr.; solum, Lat.] Ground; earth, considered with 
relation to its vegetative qualities. 
Her spots thou see’st 
As clouds, and clouds may rain, and rain produce 
Fruits in her soften’d soil. Milton, 
Land; country. 
O unexpected stroke, worse than of death! 
Must I thus leave thee, paradise! thus leave 
Thee, native soil ! these happy walks and shades, 
Fit haunts of gods. Milton. 
Dung ; compost.—The haven has been stopped up by the 
great heaps of dirt that the sea has thrown into it; for ail the 
soil on that side of Ravenna has been left there insensibly by 
the sea. Addison. 
To take Soil. To run into the water, as a deer when 
closely pursued.—O sir, have you ta’en soil here ? It’s well 
a pian may reach you after three hours running yet. B. 
Jonson. 
SQI'LINESS, s. Stain; foulness.—-Make proof of the in¬ 
corporation of silver and tin, whether it yield no soi/iness 
more than silver. Bacon. 
SOIL1DRO, a settlement of the island of Cuba; 75 miles 
east-south-east of Havannah. 
SOILURE, s. Stain; pollution. 
He merits well to have her, 
Not making any scruple of her soilure. Shakspeare. 
To SOJOURN, v. n. [sejourner, French; seggiornare , 
Italian.] To dwell any where for a time; to live as not at 
home; to inhabit as not in a settled situation. Almost out 
of use. 
If, till the expiration of your month. 
You will return and sojourn with my sister. 
Dismissing half your train, come then to me, Shakspeare; 
SO'JQURN, s. [sejour, French.] A temporary resi¬ 
dence; a casual and no settled habitation. This word was 
anciently accented on the last syllable: Milton accents it 
indifferently. 
The princes, France and Burgundy, 
Long in our court have made their am’rous sojourn. 
Shakspeare. 
Vol. XXIII. No. 1573. 
SO'JOURNER, s. A temporary dweller. 
Waves o’ertbrew 
Busiris, and his Memphian chivalry, 
While with perfidious hatred they pursu'd 
The sojourners of Goshen, Milton. 
SO'JQURNING, s. The act of dwelling any where but 
for a time.—The sojourning of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, 
was four hundred and thirty years. Exod. 
SOISSONS, a town of France, department of the Aisne, 
situated in a pleasant valley, watered by the river Aisne. Its 
population is about 7500, but it is ill built, and has few 
objects entitled to particular attention. The cathedral is an 
extensive edifice, with a library and manuscripts. The other 
remarkable objects are the church of Notre Dame, the 
academy established in 1674, the lyceum, the theatre, and a 
pleasant walk on the banks of the Aisne. The trade of Soissons 
consists chiefly in corn, and its manufactures are of coarse 
linen, stockings, thread, leather and ropes. This town lays 
claim to great antiquity: it was a place of note in the time 
of Julius Caesar; and the successors of Clovis made it the 
seat of their empire. It was the scene of some serious fight¬ 
ing between the French and allies, in February and March 
1814; 65 miles south-east of Amiens, and 70 north-east of 
Paris. Lat. 49. 22. 52. N. long. 3. 19. 37. 
SOIT fait comme il desire , be it done as it is desired; a 
form used when the King gives the royal assent to a private 
bill preferred in Parliament. 
SOK, a river in the east of European Russia, which falls 
into the Wolga, in the government of Simbirsk. 
SOKE, an ancient term, used to signify the privilege of 
mills, &c. By it the lord, in certain cases, was enabled 
to raise a considerable rent. 
SOKE-MILL, that kind of mill which belongs to the lord 
or superior of the manor, and at which all the tenants, and 
sometimes the whole parish, are bound to grind their grain. 
Mills of this nature were once very common, and they exist 
still in a few places. 
SOKE-REEVE, in our old Writers, the lord’s rent ga¬ 
therer in the soke. 
SOKEL, a small town of Galicia; 40 miles north-north¬ 
east of Lemberg. 
SOKHIO, a name used by some authors for a peculiar 
species, if it may be so called, of the lignum aloes. 
SOKO, the name sometimes given to a fertile district of 
the Gold coast of Africa, situated at the mouth of the river 
Volta. 
SOKOLKA, a town of Russian Lithuania, with 1100 in¬ 
habitants, situated near a lake; 21 miles north-north-east of 
Bialystok. 
SOKOLOW, a town of Poland ; 56 miles east-by-north 
of Warsaw, with 1200 inhabitants. 
SOKOLOWKA, a small town of Austrian Poland; 53 
miles south-by-east of Lemberg. 
SOK OR ZOK, a town of Armenia, situated about mid¬ 
way between Beilis and Diarbekir. It is governed by a 
powerful, independent, and hereditary prince,, who has 
under his orders many different tribes of Kurds and Turco¬ 
mans, of a martial and barbarous disposition, and who, it 
is said, can bring 20,000 men into the field. The district is 
extensive, and covered with villages; but the population of 
the town does not exceed 6000. 
SOKUL, a town of European Russia, in the government 
of Volhynia, on the river Styr; 27 miles north of Sluck, 
SOKULK INDIANS, Indians of North America, on the 
Columbia, below Clerk’s river. Number 2400. 
SOL, s. The name of one of the musical notes in sol- 
faing, See To Sol-fa. 
To SOL-FA, v. n. To pronounce the several notes of 
a song by the terms of the gamut, ut, re, mi, fa, sol; 
and in learning to sing.—-I’ll try how you can sol-fa. 
Shakspeare. 
SOLA, a small island in the Caribbean sea; 30 miles east 
of Margarita. 
SOLA, a small island among the Philippines, near the 
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