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SO'UVENANCE. v. s. [French .] Remem-brance; memory. A French wordwhich, with many more, is now happilydisused.

If thou wilt renounce thy miscreance,

Life will I grant thee for thy valiance,

And all thy wrongs will wipe out of my souvenance.

Spenser.

Gave wond’rous great countenance to the knight,That of his way he had no souvenance ,

Nor care of vow’d revenge. Spenser.

Sow. n. s. [fujn, Sax . soeg, somoe, Dut.]

1. A female pig; the female of a boar.

Boars have great fangs, suit's much less.

Bacons Natural History.

A soti? beneath an oak shall lie along,

All white herself, and white her thirty young.

Dryden.

For which they scorn and hate them worse

Than dogs and cats do sow gelders. Hudibras.

The sou? gelder’s horn has something musical init, but this is seldom heard. Addison’s Spectator.

2. Perhaps from sow might come sowen,swen, swine; ypina, Sax .

And wast thpu fain

To hovel thee with swine, and rogues forlorn,

In short and musty straw ? Shakesp. King Lear.

3. An oblong mass of lead. Ainsworth.

4. [ Millepeda , Lat.] An insect; a mille-pede. Ainsworth.

So wbread, n. s . [cyclamen, Lat.] Aplant.

To SOW. v.n. [saian, Goth, j-apan, Sax .sayen , Dut.] To scatter seed in order

to a harvest.

The one belongeth unto them that seek, theother unto them that have found happiness: theythat pray do but yet sow, they that give thanks de-clare they have reaped. Hooker v

They thatsrm? x in tears shall reap in joy.

Psalm cxxvi. 5.

He that soweth to his flesh, shall reap corrup-tion; but he that soweth to the spirit, shall reaplife everlasting. Gal. \ i. 8 .

Sow to yourselves in righteousness, and reap inmercy. Hos.

To Sow. v. a. part. pass, soicn.

1. To scatter in the ground, in order togrowth ; to propagate by seed.

Like was not to be found,

Save in that soil where all good things did grow,

And freely sprung out of the fruitful groundAs incorrupted nature did them sow. Fairy Queen.

From Ireland come I with my strength,

And reap the harvest which that rascal sow’d.Shak.

I sow my law in you, and it shall bring fruit inyou. 2 Fsdr.

Many plants which grow in the hotter countries,being set in the colder, will, being sown of seedslate in the spring, come up, and abide most partof the summer. Bacon .

. When to turn

The fruitful soil, and when to sow the corn,

1 sing, Mecasnas. Dryden’s Georgicks.

The proud mother views her precious brood,And happier branches,w hich she never sow'd. Dryd.

2. To spread ; to propagate.

Forwardness is in his heart: he deviseth mis-chief continually, he soweth discord. Pro vi. 14.

To sow a jangling noise of words unknown. Milt.t Since then they stand secur’d by being join’d,’Twere worthy a king’s bead to sou; division,

And seeds ortealousv, to loose those bonds. Rmce.

Bom to afflict my Marcia’s family,

And sou? dissension in the hearts of brothers.

Addison’s Cato.

3. To impregnate or stock with seed.

He shall give the Jrain of thy seed, that thousbalt sow the ground withal. Isaiah, xxx. 23.

The intellectual faculty is a goodly field, capa-ble of great improvement; and it is the worst hus-bandry in the world to sow it with trifles or imper-pertinencies. Hale’s Origin of Mankind,

4. To besprinkle.

He sow'd with stars theheav’n, thick as a field.

Milton.

Morn new sow’d the earth with orient pearl. Milt.

To Sow. v. a. [for sew.] To join byneedlework.

Some tree, whose broad smooth leaves togethersow’d,

And girded on, may cover round. Milton.

To Sowce. v. a. To throw into thewater. See Souse.

He sowced me up to the middle in the pond.

L’Estrange.

So'wer. n. s. [from sow.]

1. He that sprinkles the seed.

A sower went forth to sow. Mat. xiii. 3.

It is thrown round, as grain by a skilful sower.

Derham.

2. A scatterer.

Terming Paul and his doctrine a sower of words,a very babbler or trifler. Hakewill on Providence.

3. A breeder; a promoter.

They are sowers of suits, which make the courtswell, and the country pine. Bacon .

So'wins. v.n. Flummery, made of oat-meal somewhat soured.

These sowins, that is, flummery, being blendedtogether, produce good yeast. Mortimer's Hush.

See where Norahwith the sowins comes. Swift.

To Sowl. v. a. [from sow, as hogs arepulled by dogs, Skinner; from sole 9 astrap, a rein, Kentiet.] To pull by theears.

He’ll go and sowl the porter of Rome gates bythe ears. Shakesp.

Sown. The participle of sow. It isused barbarously by Swift for sewed .

A goodly country, naturally beautified withroses, sown with pease. Heylvn.

An hundred and fifty of their beds, sown toge-ther, made up the breadfth and length. Gulliver.

So wthistle, n. s. [sonchim, Lat.] Aweed.

Sowthistles though coneys eat, yet sheep and cat-tle will not touch ; the no Ik of which, rubbed onwarts, weareth them away, which sheweth it iscorrosive. Bacon .

Spaad. n. s. [stella terra , Lat.] A kindof mineral.

English tale, of which the coarser sort is calledplaister; the finer, spaad, earth-flax, or salaman-der’s hair. Woodward.

Space, n. s. [spatium, Lat.]

1. Room; local extension.

Space is the relation of distance between anytwo bodies or points. Locke

Oh undistinguished space of woman’s wit IShak.

This which yields or fills all space. Milton.

Pure space is capable neither of resistance normotion. Locke.

Space and motion can never be actually infinite :they have a power only and a capacity of beingincreased without end : so that no space can be as-signed so vast, but still a larger may be imagined ;no motion so swift or languid, but a greater velo-city or slowness may still be conceived. Bentley.

2. Any quantity of place.

1 would not be the villain that thou think’stFor the whole spare that’s in the tyrant’s grasp,And the ricli east to boot. Shakesp. Macbeth.

There was but two ways to escape; the onethrough the woods, about ten miles space to Walpo.

Krwlles.

In such a (peat ruin, where the fragments aregreat and hard, it is not possible they should beso adjusted in their fall, but that they would liehollow, and numerous unfilled spaces would he in-tercepted amongst them. Burnet.

Measuring first with careful eyesThe space his spear could reach, aloud he cries.

Dryden.

3. Quantity of time.

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There is a competent time allowed . n Vand, as it is certain death is the con’tis possible some space before deati 5 j nV andNine times the space that measures o y

To mortal men, he with his horrid ere «

Lay vanquish’d, rolling in the fiery %Confounded, though immortal. .

In a lever the motion can be con ,*l n * 0 tb at jtso short a space, as mav be answerable ^ e jght- ,distance betwixt the fulciment and tn , jijajP j

Wilkin’s Matheinat**^,^

God may defer his judgments tot |,egive a people a longer space of repent f u ||; &stay till the iniquities of a nation e jpe c *\.sooner or later they have reason ^

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'ITie lives of great men cannot be wtolerable degree of elegance or exashort space after their decease.

4. A small time ; a while.

Sith for me ye fight, to me this

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Both yield, to stay your deadly

Compassion quell’d _ rS

His best of man, and gave him up to ce gs. *

A space, till firmer thoughts restrain d e

SPA CIOUS, adj. [spacieux, Fr.*F . „otLat.] Wide; extensive; roomy'narrow. bllt

The former buildings, which wer ^.j e cb u /*W-contented them not: spacious and ani| f{oOthey erected throughout every city- j e ntV \Convey your pleasures in a fyaciott* I $/j<is

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And yet seem cold.

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Merab witli spacious beauty tins J ,, j' jjght-But too much awe chastis’d tne bold

Like an English gen’ral will I dUi’ .. b Ae my spaaouse" V--

And all the ocean mak

" llu ttJ * outrun uiMihc IHYT7", j; a y ifc'rvi/Women and cowards on the land Wj

The sea’s a tomb that’s proper forth .

Spa'ciously. (tdv. [from spacious)tensively. aci^'

Spa'ciousness. n.s. [from S P .

Roominess; wide extension. f

Spa'ddle. n.s. [diminutive

A little spade. , ,, e ..

Others destroy moles with a spathe mornings and evenings for theim

Spade, n. s. [ppab, Sax . sp a e>and Dut.] y

1. The instrument of digging - nC d. u fV t

Take the air of the earth new gy Idigging with the spade, or standi g ]

diggeth. . s om c ‘ S f s c0

Many learned men affirm, tna ^ on 1 oj.#' 1 'have been eat through by the sea,by the spade. ■ n-.’s O ’ 0

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His knotty cudgel on his tougher , g

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Between the sceptre and the sP

2. A deer three years old. j

3. A suit of cards. m th e 0t>

Spa'debone. n. s. [named fr°

The shoulder-blade. g t i,e r'fi

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Spadi'ceous. adj.

Of those five Scaliger beheld.

spadiceous, or of a light red, a - ^5 cjred, yet was there not anyamong them. gSjf*

Spadi'lle. n.s. [spadilh’ . A

Fr.] The ace of spades

Spagy'rick adj. [ x P a Sd rl s f r om s ?word coined bya searcher, Teuton.] ^j 3 t.

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