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  • English Word Sob Definition The act of sobbing; a convulsive sigh, or inspiration of the breath, as in sorrow.
  • English Word Sob Definition Any sorrowful cry or sound.
  • English Word Sobbed Definition of Sob
  • English Word Sobbing Definition of Sob
  • English Word Sobbing Definition A series of short, convulsive inspirations, the glottis being suddenly closed so that little or no air enters into the lungs.
  • English Word Sober Definition Temperate in the use of spirituous liquors; habitually temperate; as, a sober man.
  • English Word Sober Definition Not intoxicated or excited by spirituous liquors; as, the sot may at times be sober.
  • English Word Sober Definition Not mad or insane; not wild, visionary, or heated with passion; exercising cool, dispassionate reason; self-controlled; self-possessed.
  • English Word Sober Definition Not proceeding from, or attended with, passion; calm; as, sober judgment; a man in his sober senses.
  • English Word Sober Definition Serious or subdued in demeanor, habit, appearance, or color; solemn; grave; sedate.
  • English Word Sober Definition To make sober.
  • English Word Sober Definition To become sober; -- often with down.
  • English Word Sober-minded Definition Having a disposition or temper habitually sober.
  • English Word Sobered Definition of Sober
  • English Word Sobering Definition of Sober
  • English Word Soberize Definition To sober.
  • English Word Soberly Definition In a sober manner; temperately; cooly; calmly; gravely; seriously.
  • English Word Soberly Definition Grave; serious; solemn; sad.
  • English Word Soberness Definition The quality or state of being sober.
  • English Word Soboles Definition A shoot running along under ground, forming new plants at short distances.
  • English Word Soboles Definition A sucker, as of tree or shrub.
  • English Word Soboliferous Definition Producing soboles. See Illust. of Houseleek.
  • English Word Sobriety Definition Habitual soberness or temperance as to the use of spirituous liquors; as, a man of sobriety.
  • English Word Sobriety Definition Habitual freedom from enthusiasm, inordinate passion, or overheated imagination; calmness; coolness; gravity; seriousness; as, the sobriety of riper years.
  • English Word Sobriquet Definition An assumed name; a fanciful epithet or appellation; a nickname.
  • English Word Soc Definition The lord's power or privilege of holding a court in a district, as in manor or lordship; jurisdiction of causes, and the limits of that jurisdiction.
  • English Word Soc Definition Liberty or privilege of tenants excused from customary burdens.
  • English Word Soc Definition An exclusive privilege formerly claimed by millers of grinding all the corn used within the manor or township which the mill stands.
  • English Word Socage Definition A tenure of lands and tenements by a certain or determinate service; a tenure distinct from chivalry or knight's service, in which the obligations were uncertain. The service must be certain, in order to be denominated socage, as to hold by fealty and twenty shillings rent.
  • English Word Socager Definition A tennant by socage; a socman.