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SOROE, a town of Denmark, in the island of Zealand, 
situated on a lake. Population 500; 35 miles south-west 
of Copenhagen. 
SORO'RICIDE, s. [soror and cwdo.] The murder of a 
sister. 
SORR, a village of Bohemia, in the circle of Kon- 
igingratz. 
SO'RRAGE, s. The blades of green wheat or barley. 
SO'RRANCES, s. [In Farriery.] Any disease or sore in 
horses. Diet. 
SORRAYA, a river of Portugal, in Alentejo, which falls 
into the Tagus, 
SO'RREL, s. [pipe, Saxon; sore/, French; oxalis, 
Lat.] This plant agrees with the dock in all its characters, 
and only differs in having an acid taste. Miller .—Of all 
roots of herbs the root of sorrel goeth the farthest into the 
earth. It is a cold and acid herb that loveth the earth, and 
is not much drawn by the sun. Bacon. 
SO'RREL, adj. See Sorel. 
SORRENTO, a town of Italy, built on a peninsula, on 
the south side of the gulf of Naples, between the mountains 
of Vico and Massa, which shelter it from the west and south 
winds. Its situation is delightful, being surrounded with 
gardens. It contains only 4200 inhabitants, although the 
number of ancient marbles, and of the ruins of edifices, shew 
it to have been formerly much more extensive. Of its temples 
those of Juno, Diana, and Hercules, were the most magnifi¬ 
cent. Its wines were in former ages accounted little inferior 
to the most renowned of Italy. At present, though not in so 
high repute, they are raised in large quantities; also olives, 
oranges, silk, all in the adjacent plain, which is beautiful and 
well cultivated. Part of the silk is manufactured in the town. 
Sorrento is the see of an archbishop, and gave birth to Tasso, 
the celebrated poet; 15 miles south-south-east of Naples. 
SO'RRILY, adv. Meanly ; poorly ; despicably; wretch¬ 
edly; pitiably.—How does this hero in buskins perform; 
so wretchedly and sorrily, so exactly to the same tune and 
his wonted pitch, that he has not struck one right stroke. 
Bentley. 
SO'RRINESS s. Meanness; wretchedness; pitiableness; 
despicableness. 
SORROK A, a small town of European Russia, in Molda¬ 
via, on the Dniester. 
To SO'RROW, v. n. [saurgan, Gothic ; pojijian, Sax.] 
To grieve; to be sad ; to be dejected. 
The miserable change, now at my end, 
- Lament, nor sorrow at. Shakspeare. 
S'ORROW, s. [yopj, Saxon, from popjian; saurgan, 
M. Goth, sorga, Su. Goth, to grieve. Serenius.] Grief; 
pain for something past; sadness; mourning. Sorrow is 
not commonly understood as the effect of present evil, but of 
lost good. 
Sorrow on thee, and all the pack of you; 
That triumph thus upon my misery! Shakspeare. 
SO'RROWED, adj. Accompanied with sorrow. Out 
of use. 
Now the public body, which doth seldom 
Play the recanter, feeling in itself 
A lack of Timon’s aid, hath sense withal 
Of its own fall, restraining aid to Timon: 
And sends forth us to make their sorrowed tender. 
Shakspeare. 
SO'F,ROWFUL, adj. [Sax. popgpull.] Sad for some¬ 
thing past; mournful; grieving.—Blessed are they which 
have been sorrowful for all thy scourges ; for they shall re¬ 
joice for thee, when they have seen all the glory. Tob. 
—Deeply serious. Not in use .—Haunah said, No, my 
lord, 1 am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have poured 
out my soul before the Lord. 1 Sam —Expressing grief; 
accomoanied with grief.—The things that my soul refuseth 
to touch are as my sorrowful meat. Job. 
S'ORROWFULLY, adv. In a sorrowful manner. Barret . 
■—The matter he hath sorrowfully lamented. Ld. Her¬ 
bert. 
SO'RROWFULNESS, s. [Sax. pop^pulneppe.] State of 
being sorrowful. 
SO'RROWING, s. [popgung, Sax. lamentatio.] Expres¬ 
sion of sorrow. 
Marina, hearing sighs, to him drew near; 
And did entreat his cause of grief to hear; 
---Her beauty was the sting, 
That caused all this instant sorrowing. Browne. 
SORROWLESS, adj. [Sax. popgleap.] Without sorrow. 
Huloet. —If their repentance be sorrowless, it will prove but 
a sorry one. Hewyt. Serm. 
SO'RRY, adj. [papig 'pap 1 , paspi Sax.] Grieved for 
something past. It is generally used of slight or casual mis¬ 
carriages or vexations, but sometimes of greater things. It 
does not imply any long continuance of grief.— Via-sorry 
for thee, friend; ’tis the duke’s pleasure. Shakspeare. — 
Melancholy; dismal. 
They espied 
A sorie sight as ever seen with eye; 
A heedless ladie lying him beside. 
In her own blood all swallow’d woefully. Spenser. 
[From saur, filth, Icelandic. Dr. Johnson.—Hence our 
word was at first sowry, in this sense. “ Sowry or defiled.” 
Prompt. Parv. in V. Soure, or Filth .] Vile; worthless; 
vexatious. 
How now, why do you keep alone ? 
Of sorriest fancies your companions making. 
Using those thoughts which should, indeed, have died 
With them they think on. Shakspeare. 
SORT, s. \sorte, French.] A kind; a species.—To Adam 
in what sort shall I appear ? Milton. —A degree of any 
quality.—I shall not be wholly without praise, if in some 
sort I have copied his style. Dryden. —A class, or order 
of persons. 
I have bought 
Golden opinions from all sorts of people. Shakspeare. 
A company ; a knot of people. 
Mine eyes are full of tears: I cannot see; 
And yet salt water blinds them not so much, 
But they can see a sort of traitors here. Shakspeare. 
Rank; condition above the vulgar.—Is signior Montanto 
returned from the wars?—I know none of that name, lady ; 
there was none such in the army of any sort. Shakspeare. 
[. Sortes , Lat.] A lot. Out of use. 
Make a lott’ry. 
And by decree, let blockish Ajax 
Draw the sort fo fight with Hector. Shakspeare. 
A pair; a set; a suit. 
To SORT, v. a. [sortiri, Lat.] To separate into distinct 
and proper classes. 
I come to thee for charitable licence, 
To sort our nobles from our common men. Shakspeare. 
To reduce to order from a state of confusion. 
Let me not be light; 
For a light wife doth make a heavy husband; 
And never be Bassanio so from me : 
But God sort all ! Shakspeare. 
To conjoin ; to put together in distribution. 
The swain perceiving by her words ill sorted, 
That she was wholly from herself transported. Brown. 
To cull; to choose; to select. 
Send his mother to his father’s house, 
That he may sort her out a worthy spouse. Chapman. 
To SORT, v. n. To be joined with others of the same 
species.—Nor do metals only sort and herd with metals in 
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