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Has he never before sounded you in this busi-ness ? Shakesp .
Invites these lords, and those he meant to sound.
Daniel .
1 was in jest,
And by that offer meant to sound your breast.Dn/d.
I’ve sounded my Nutnidians, man by man,
Awd find ’em ripe for a revolt. Addison’s Cato.
To Sound, v. n. To try with the sound-ing-line.
The shipmen deemed that they drew near tosome country, and sounded, and found it neartwenty fathoms. Acts, xxvii.
Beyond this we have no more a positive distinctnotion of infinite space than a mariner has of thedepth of the sea, where having let down a largeportion of his sounding line, he reaches no bot-tom. Locke
Sound, v.s . [sepia, Lat.] The cuttle-fish. Ainsworth.
Sound, n. s. [son Fr. sonus , Lat.]
1. Any thing audible ; anoise; that whichis perceived by the ear.
Heaps of huge words nphoarded hideouslyWith horrid sound, tliougn having little sense,
And thereby wantin': due intelligence,
Have marr’d the face of goodly poesy,
And made a monster of tneir fantasy. Spenser.
Come, sisters, ciieer we up his sprights,
And shew the best of our delights;
I’ll charm the air to give a sound,
While you perform your antick round.
Shakesp. Macbeth.
Dash a stone agbinst a stone in the bottom ofthe water, and it maketh a sound: so a long polestruck upon gravel, in the bottom of the water,maketh a sound. Bacons Natural History.
The warlike sound of trumpets loud. Milton.
Whene’er he spoke, his voice was heard around,Loud as a trumpet with a silver sound. Dryden.
That which is convened into the brain by theear is called sound; though, till it affect the per-ceptive part, it be nothing but motion. Locke.
2. Mere empty noise opposed to meaning.
He contented himself with doubtful and generalterms, which might make no ill sound in men’sears. Locke.
Let us consider this proposition as to its mean-ing ; for it is the sense not sound that must be theprinciple. Locke.
O lavish land ! for sound at such expence?
But then, she saves it in her bills for sense.
Young.
1. To make a noise; to emit a noise.
Trumpet once more to sound at general doom.
Milton.
That with one blast through the whole housedoes bound,
And first taught speaking-trumpet? how to sound.
Dryden.
Thither the silver sounding lyresShall call the smiling loves and young desires. Pope.
2. To exhibit by sound, or likeness ofsound.
Why do you start, and seem to fearThings that do sound so fair? Shakesp.
They being told there was small hope of easeTo be expected to their evils from hence,
Were willing at the first to give an ear
To any thing that sounded liberty. B. Jonsons Cat'll.
This relation sounds rather like a chymical dreamthan a philosophical truth. Wilkin’s Mathem. Mag.
3. To be conveyed in sound.
From you s&undtd out the word of the Lord.
1 Thess. i. 8.
1. To cause to make a noise; to play on.
And many nymphs about them flocking round,And many tritons which their horns did sound.
Spenser.
Michael bid sound
TV archaugel trumpet. Milton.
Misenus lay ; none so renown’dThe warrior trumpet in the field to sound ;
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With breathing brass to kindle fierce alarms, IAnd rouse to dare their fate in honourable arms, j
Dryden.■.
2. To betoken or direct by sound.
, Once Jove from Ida did both hosts survey,
And, when he pleas’d to thunder, part the fray;Here heav’n in vain that kind retreat should sound,The louder cannon have the thunder drown’d.
Waller.
3. To celebrate by sound.
Sun, sound his praise. Milton.
So'undboard. 7i. a. [sound and board.]A board which propagates the sound inorgans.
Try it without any soundboard along, only harp-wise atone end of the string. Bacon ’s Nat. Hist.
As in an organ, from one blast of wind,
To many a row of pipes the soundboard breathes.
Milton.
So'unding. adj. [from sound.] Sonor-ous ; having a magnificent sound.
Obsolete words may then be revived, whenmore sounding or more significant than those inpractice. Dryden.
So'undly. adv. [from sound ]
1. Healthily; heartily.
2. Lustily ; stoutly ; strongly.
When Duncan is asleep,
Whereto the rather shall this hard day’s journeySoundly invite him. Shakesp. Macbeth.
They did ply
My feet and hands with cords, and to the mastWith other halsers made me soundly fast.
Chapmans Odyssey .
Who had so often in your aidSo many ways been soundly paid. Hudibras.
Have no concern,
Provided Punch, for there’s the jest,
"Besoundly maul’d, and plague the rest. Swift.
Their nobility and gentry are one half ruined,banished, or converted : they all soundly feel thesmart of the last Irish war. Swift.
3. Truly ; rightly.
The wisest are always the readiest to acknow-ledge, that soundly to judge of law is the weigh-tiest thing which any man can take upon him.
Hooker.
The doctrine of the church of England , ex-pressed in the thirty-nine articles, is so soundlyand orlhodoxly settled, as cannot be questionedwithout extreme danger to our religion. Bacon .
4. Fast; closely : it is used of sleeping.
Now when that idle dream was to him brought,Unto that elfen knight he bad him fly,
Where he slept soundly, void of evil thought.
Fairy Queen.
When the succession of ideas ceases, our per-ception of duration ceases with it, which everyone experiences whilst he sleeps soundly. Locke.
Soundness, n.s. [from sound.]
1. Health; heartiness.
1 would I had that corporal soundness now,
As when thy father and myself in friendshipFirst tried our soldiership. Shakesp.
2. Truth ; rectitude; incorrupt state.
In the end, very few excepted, all became sub-ject to the sway of time: other odds there wasnone amongst them, saving only that some fellsooner away, and some later, from the soundnessof belief. Hooker.
Lesiy is misled in his politicks; but he hathgiven proof of his soundness in religion. Swift.
As tne health and strength, or weakness of ourbodies, is very much owing to their methods oftreating us when we were young; so the soundnessor folly of our minds are hot less owing to thosefirst tempers and ways of thinking, which we ea-gerly received from the love, tenderness, authority,and constant conversation of our mothers. Law.
3. Strength; solidity.
This presupposed, it may stand then very wellwith strength and soundness of reason, even thusto answer. Hooker.
Soup. n. s. [soupe, Fr.] Strong decoc-tion of flesh for the table.
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Spongy morells in strong ragout? are , jA nd in the soup the slimy snail i» ^ ,nVI Q a y’s
Let the cook daub the back of a
new livery; or, when be is going , U Pof soup, let her follow him softly with a > v -;.
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SOUR. adj. [ r up, j-upij, Sax . * ar \f x $&
1. Acid; austere; pungent on wwith astringency, as vinegar, orfruit. petite*
Their drink is sour.
But let the bounds of licences be J 1 ,, '
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Not things of disagreeing natures mi*.®' seTpff'?Not sweet with sour, nor birds wit pfip’’join’d. .
Both ways deceitful is the wine ofP.® L#,When new ’tU heady, and when old 11
2. Harsh of temper; crabbed; P®*morose; severe.
He was a scholar, .
Lofty and sour to them that lov'd ki® , \ V ‘
Shakesp- R e ’ v ‘;’salio 11 '
A man of pleasant and popular con ,rather free than sour and reserved. . ^inS 1111 \!\
Wotton’sLifeojB ^‘
Tiberius, otherwise a very sour n aJ id 6punctually perform this rite unto otl> e * $ r^pect the same.
3. Afflictive ; painful.
Let me embrace these sour advepn^ yj,For wise men say it is the wisest cou ^ vJ Shakesp- ***
4. Expressing discontent. . r «jaY* W(
He said a sour thing to Laura the o* 1 fgt‘Sullen and sour, with discontented i® 16
1 be lord treasurer often looked osour countenance. . . i
Sour. ?k s. [from the adjective.Jsubstance. 3 * ee !>
A thousand sours to temper with Sp^To make it seem more dear and dain j*
To Sour. v. a.
1. To make acid. .
Ilis angeliuk nature had n°H c -° urS ,levcn which ferments the souring o9 p e cap°fJ e t^
Thus kneaded up with milk,
His kingdom o’er his kindred won® JTill knowledge misapplied, roisuitd®u^od*
And pride of empire, sour’d his bali®JOne passion, with a different turn#
Makes wit inflame or anger burn .• »,$, qJH*
So the sun’s heat, with diffreut pRipens the grape, the liquor \\y, jff
2. To be harsn, or seem unk J ° *j
Tufts of grass sour land. Martip\ e ^
3. To make uneasy; to make i e
Hail, great king ! . r »
To sour your happiness, I niust Ctr \jfll
The queen is dead. °
He brought envy, malice,, H1 \,,.fParadise, which soured to him tthe place.
4. To make discontented. ,
Not my owndisgf f *
Hath ever made me sour my P fltlOr bend one wrinkle on my s® ver ,» *\\e^ e i. (
Three crabbed months had 501<r
death, tihitfib* 11 *
Ere I could make thee open thy * ..
In me, as yet, ambition liad n® ^
Pride had not lour’d, nor wrath
To Sour. v. n.
1 . To become acid, . . e at 0 "’ 8 n jti-Asses milk, when it sours 1 [ l nP ly- .jjd'whey turned sour, will purge str ^