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to mutiny- I'armee s’cst soulevee contre I the purpose of letting'out the air aridson general ; the army rose, or mutinied wind that may be collected within, and
against its general.
SOUMETTRE, Fr. (as an activeverb,) to subdue, to overcome, to reduceto subjection.
Se Soumettre, Fr. to submit oneself;to yield.
SOUMISSION, Fr. submission.
SOUMIS, Fr. in fortification, to lieunder, to be commanded. Thus, onework is said to be commanded, elnsounds, when it is lower than another.The same signification holds good withrespect to heights, or elevations.
SOUND, (son, Fr.) any thing audible,noise; that which is perceived by theear. T he experiments are numerous bywhich it has been found, that sound isaudible to the distance of 50, 00, or SOmiles ; but Dr. Uearne, physician to theking of Sweden , tells us, that at thebombardment of Hohnia, in 1058, thesound was heard 30 Swedish miles, whichmake ISO of ours : and in the fight be-tween England and Holland in 1072,the noise of the guns was heard even inWales , which cannot he less than 200miles.
The velocity of sound is 380 yards, or114.2 feet in a second of time, as foundby very accurate experiments. The ex-actness of measuring distances by sound,has been sufficiently proved by measuringthe same distances by trigonometry.
Sound, (sonde, Fr.) an instrumentused by surgeons in probing.
Sound. A horse is said to be sound,when be does not halt, hot or cold.
To Sound, to betoken, or direct by asound; as, to sound the retreat. Hence
SOUNDINGS, signals made by anykind of instruments.
SOUJ‘ATE, Fr. every part of themachinery in a pump, which tends tostop the water; also the sucker of apump.
SOUPENTES, Fr. the braces of acoach.
SOUPENTE de cheminee, Fr. an ironhold-fast which supports the dosssr of akitchen chimney; soupente also signifiesa loft.
Soupente de machine, Fr. a piece ofwood, which being kept perpendicularfrom above, is hung for the purpose ofsustaining the roll, or axle-tree and wheelof a machine, as is the case in a crane.
SOUPIRAIL d'uquedac, Fr. a vent-hole in a covered aqueduct, made for
which must naturally impede the courseof the water.
SOURA, Ind. a division; as that of achapter.
SOURCES, Fr. See Spbisos.
SOURD, e, Fr. literally means deaf,dull. It is variously applied by theFrench , viz.
Lartterne Sourde, Fr. n dark lanthern.
Lime Sourde, Fr. a file which is madein such a manner, that you may separatepieces of iron without making tiny noisein the operation. It is likewise used ina figurative sense—To signify a personwho says little, but is always meditatingsomething mischievous, or injurious toothers.
The French likewise say, gourdes pra-tiques, pratiques gourdes ; secret, or un-derhand practices; gourdes metises , mensesgourdes; secretor underhand ways. Theseterms are always used in a bad sense. Inmathematics, the French call those quan-’tides quuntitss sourdcs, which are in-commensurable, that is, which cannot beexactly expressed, either by whole num-bers, or by fractions. Thus the squareroot, or racine carrte, of two, is a quan-tile sourde.
SOURDINE, Fr. a little pipe, a mute.It likewise means a small spring, whichis fixed in a dumb repeater. The French make use of this word in a figurativesense, to signify literally, without noise.Lcs ennemis ont dslogsd la sourdine; theenemy decamped privately, and withoutnoise.
SOURIS, Fr. literally, a mouse. Forits application in fortification, see pas dcsouris.—Le souris qui n'a qu un trou esthientot pris ; the mouse that has only onehole to run to, is soon caught.
SOURIS is a cartilage in the nostrilsof a horse, by the means of which hesnorts.
SOURNOIS, Fr. a sullen character.
SOUS, Fr. a preposition which isused to denote the state or condition ofone thing with respect to another whichis above it, viz.
Sovs-langenie, Fr. See Sub -tan-gent.
Sous, Fr. under; close to. Campersous une mile, to encamp under a town ;etre sous le feu d'un balaitlon, to be underthe lire, or exposed to the lire of a bat-talion ; les soldats sont sous les urines, thesoldiers are under arms; sous les dru-5 P 2