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- English Word Soal Definition The sole of a shoe.
- English Word Soal Definition See Sole, the fish.
- English Word Soal Definition A dirty pond.
- English Word Soam Definition A chain by which a leading horse draws a plow.
- English Word Soap Definition A substance which dissolves in water, thus forming a lather, and is used as a cleansing agent. Soap is produced by combining fats or oils with alkalies or alkaline earths, usually by boiling, and consists of salts of sodium, potassium, etc., with the fatty acids (oleic, stearic, palmitic, etc.). See the Note below, and cf. Saponification. By extension, any compound of similar composition or properties, whether used as a cleaning agent or not.
- English Word Soap Definition To rub or wash over with soap.
- English Word Soap Definition To flatter; to wheedle.
- English Word Soapberry tree Definition Any tree of the genus Sapindus, esp. Sapindus saponaria, the fleshy part of whose fruit is used instead of soap in washing linen; -- also called soap tree.
- English Word Soaped Definition of Soap
- English Word Soapfish Definition Any serranoid fish of the genus Rhypticus; -- so called from the soapy feeling of its skin.
- English Word Soapiness Definition Quality or state of being soapy.
- English Word Soaping Definition of Soap
- English Word Soaproot Definition A perennial herb (Gypsophila Struthium) the root of which is used in Spain as a substitute for soap.
- English Word Soapstone Definition See Steatite, and Talc.
- English Word Soapsuds Definition Suds made with soap.
- English Word Soapwort Definition A common plant (Saponaria officinalis) of the Pink family; -- so called because its bruised leaves, when agitated in water, produce a lather like that from soap. Called also Bouncing Bet.
- English Word Soapy Definition Resembling soap; having the qualities of, or feeling like, soap; soft and smooth.
- English Word Soapy Definition Smeared with soap; covered with soap.
- English Word Soar Definition To fly aloft, as a bird; to mount upward on wings, or as on wings.
- English Word Soar Definition Fig.: To rise in thought, spirits, or imagination; to be exalted in mood.
- English Word Soar Definition The act of soaring; upward flight.
- English Word Soar Definition See 3d Sore.
- English Word Soar Definition See Sore, reddish brown.
- English Word Soared Definition of Soar
- English Word Soaring Definition of Soar
- English Word Soaring Definition a. & n. from Soar.
- English Word Soave Definition Sweet.
- English Word Soavemente Definition Sweetly.
- English Word Sob Definition To soak.
- English Word Sob Definition To sigh with a sudden heaving of the breast, or with a kind of convulsive motion; to sigh with tears, and with a convulsive drawing in of the breath.