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Somewhile. n. s. [ tome and while.]Once; for a time. Out of uae .
Though under colour of the shepherds somewhile,There crept in wolves full of fraud and guile,That often devoured their own sheep,
And often the shepherd that did ’em keep.
Spenser’s Pastorals.
Somni'ferous. adj. [ somni/ere , Fr. som-nifer, Lat.] Causing sleep ; procuringsleep ; soporiferous ; dormitive.
I wish for some somniferous potion, that mightforce me to sleep away the intermediate time, as itdoes with men in sorrow. ITaifon’s Angler.
Somn i pick. adj. [ somnus and facto ,Lat.] Causing sleep.
So'mnolency. n. s. [.somnolentia 3 Lat.]Sleepiness ; inclination to sleep.
SON. n. s. Goth, puna, Sax.
sohn, Germ, son , Swed. sone, Dut. syn,Sclavonian.]
1. A male bom of one or begotten byone ; correlative to father or mother.
She had a son for her cradle, ere she had a hus-band for her bed. Shakesp. King Lear .
Cast out this bondwoman and her son.
Gen. xxi. 10.
He compares the affection of the Divine Beingto the indulgence of a wise father, who wouldhave his sons exercised with labour and pain, thatthey may gather strength. Addison.
2. Descendant, however distant; as, thesons of Adam.
I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings.
Isaiah xix.
3. Compellation of an old to a young man,or of a confessor to his penitent.
Be plain, good son, and homely in thy drift;Riddling confession finds but riddling shrift.
Shakesp.
4. Native of a country.
Sees arts her savage sons controul. lope.
5. The second person of the Trinity.
If thou be the son of God , come down.
Mat. xxvii. 40.
6. Product of any thing.
Our imperfections prompt our corruption, andloudly tell us we are sons of earth.
Browns Vulgat Errours.
Earth ’s tall sons, the cedar, oak, and pine,
Their parent’s undecaying strength declare.
Blackmore.
7. In scripture, sons of pride, and sons oflight, denoting some quality. It is aHebraism.
This new fav’rite
Of heav’n, this man of clay, son of despite. Milton.
Son-in-law. n. s. One married to one’sdaughter.
„ H virtue no benighted beauty lack,
^ our son-in-law is far more fair than black.
A foreign son-in-law shall come from far,
Whose race shall bear aloft the Latian name.
Dryden’s JEneid.
So'nship. n. s. [from son.] Filiation;the character of a son.
The apostle to the Hebrews makes afflictionsnot only incident but necessary to Christianity ,the badge and cognizance of sonship.Decay ofPietu
SONATA, n. 1 [Ital.] \ tune.
He whistled a Scotch tune, and an Italian sonata.
Addison.
Could Pedro, think you, make no trial
Of a sonata on his viol,
Unless he had the total gut
Whence every string at first was cut ? Prior.
SONG. n. s. from [pepungen, Sax.]
I. Any thing modulated in the utterance.
Noise other than the sound of dance and song.
Milton.
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He first thinks fit no sonnetter advanceHis censure farther than the song or dance. Dryden.
2. A poem to be modulated by the voice;a ballad.
Pardon, goddess of the night,
Those that slew thy virgin knight;
For the which, with songs of woe,
Round about his tomb they go! Shakesp.
In her days every man shall sing •
The merry songs of peace to all his neighbours.
3. A poem ; lay ; strain.
The bard that first adorn’d our native tongue,Tun’d to his British lyre this ancient song.Dryden.
There we awhile will rest;
Our next ensuing song to wondrous things addrest.
Drayton.
4* Poetry; poesy.
This subject for heroick song pleas’d me. Milton.
Names memorable long,
If there be force in virtue or in song. Pope.
5. Notes of birds.
The lark, the messenger of day,
Saluted in her song the morniug grey. Dryden.
6. Old song. A trifle.
I do not intend to be thus put off with an oldsong. More.
A hopeful youth, newly advanced to great ho-nour, was forced by a cobler to renounce all for anold song. Addison.
So'ngish. adj. [from song.] Containingsongs; consisting of songs. A low word.
The songish part must abound in the softness andvariety of numbers, its intention being to pieasethe hearing. Dryden.
So'ngster. n. s. [from song.] A singer.Used of human singers, it is a word ofslight contempt.
The pretty songsters of the spring, with theirvarious notes, did seem to welcome him as hepassed. Nowel.
Some songsters can no more sing in any chamberbut their own, than some clerks read in any bookbut their own. L’Estrange.
Either songster holding out their throats,
And folding up their wings, renew’d their notes.
Dryden.
So'ngstress. n. s. [from song.] A fe-male singer.
Through the soft silence of the listening nightThe sober-suited songstress trills her lay.
Thomson’s Summer,
SO'NNET. n. s. [sonnet, Fr. sonnetto,Ital.]
L. A short poem consisting of fourleenlines, of which the rhymes are adjustedby a particular rule. It is not very suit-able to the English language ; and hasnot been used by any man of eminencesince Milton, of whose sonnets this is aspecimen.
A book was writ of late call’d Tctrachordon,And woven close, both matter, form, and stile ;The subject new : it walk’d the town a-whiie,
Numb’ringgood intellects, now seldom por’d on:
Cries the stall-reader, Bless us, what a word onA title-page is this! and some in fileStand spelling false, while one might walk to Mile-
End-green. Why is it harder, sirs, than Gordon,
CoJkftto, or MacdonneJ, or Galasp?
Those rugged names to our like mouths growsleek,
That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp ;
Thy age, like ours, soul of Sir John Cheek,Hated not learning worse than toad or asp,
When thou taught’st Cambridge and king Ed-ward Greek. Milton.
2. A small poem.
Let us into the city presently,
To sort some gentlemen well skill’d in musick ;
I have a simnet that wilt serve the turn. Shakesp.
Sonnktte'er. n. s. [sonneticr, Fr. fromsonnet.] A small poet, in contempt.
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Assist me, some extemporal god of r 11I am sure I shall turn sonnetteer. , T U&'Shake.w.
There are as many kinds ot gardeningtry: your makers of parterres and fl Jft.are epigrammatists and sonnetteers i'u xtllS §p e ct<i t(,r ‘
What woful stuff this madrigal ’
In some starv’d hackney sonnetteer oi
ouldor ntf'
lines,
J>ui lei a luru nine uwii me nopiv • .
How the wit brightens! how the style
So'niferous. adj. [sonus and/e*^’
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Giving or bringing sound. iat(c r 1
This will appear, let the subjectsounds be what it wi]J; either the atrn0 ] r (id f5 °the etherial part tiiereof, or soniferoits ‘bodies. . jg,
Sonori'fick. adj. [sonorus and JLat.] Producing sound. ^ t . keSl
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If he should ask me why a clock str* ^points to the hour; and I should say> 14 *.indicating form and sonorijick quality* tygjr'be unsatisfactory. Watts* *
SONO'ROUS. adj. [ sonore, Ft
Lat.]
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. Loud sounding ; giving loud oT . s rsound. Bodies are distinguishednorous or unsonorous.
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Sonorous metal blowing martial sound tAt which the universal host up * eIl£ ,
A shout that tore hell’s concave.
Miltons Pfl T g0 und-
High sounding ; magnificent orThe Italian opera, amidst all the n>e?■familiarity of the thoughts, has soxaewms^ful and sonorous in the expression. AdoThe vowels are sonorous. i ifliW
Sono'rously. adv. [fromsonoroM-^A.
high sound; with magnificence ° ^
Sono'rousness. n. s. [from son»
1. The quality of giving f im h ate , 0 f *
Enquiring of a maker of vio Is ana i >
age he thought lutes ought to be, to fje^* «ji< 1full and best seasoning (or sonorou^ i
That in some twenty years would be 1 pHin others forty.
2. Magnificence of sound. erf. ^SOON. adv. [suns, Goth. yona.
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l. Before long time be past; s 'any time assigned or supp° s
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You must obey me, or it h y
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Why should you vainly struggle
2. Early; before any time supP
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Do this, that I may be resti
posed to late .
O boy ! thy father gaveAnd hath bereft ’
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How is it that you are come so
Tile earlier stayelh for the l ate , r ’i£mpd ^later cometh sooner. Bacon s n ^
3. Readily; willingly. .
I would ns soon see a river windingand meadows, as when it iswhimsical figures at Versailles.d«f fj 0 r) u c -
4. It has in Sidney the signf^y oradjective, whether ]i cent ‘? U t ;pie- .Re-cording to the custom of h ,’ : L
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5. Soon as. Immediately; b