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- English Word Softener Definition One who, or that which, softens.
- English Word Softening Definition of Soften
- English Word Softening Definition a. & n. from Soften, v.
- English Word Softish Definition Somewhat soft.
- English Word Softling Definition A soft, effeminate person; a voluptuary.
- English Word Softly Definition In a soft manner.
- English Word Softner Definition See Softener.
- English Word Softness Definition The quality or state of being soft; -- opposed to hardness, and used in the various specific senses of the adjective.
- English Word Sogginess Definition The quality or state of being soggy; soddenness; wetness.
- English Word Soggy Definition Filled with water; soft with moisture; sodden; soaked; wet; as, soggy land or timber.
- English Word Soho Definition Ho; -- a word used in calling from a distant place; a sportsman's halloo.
- English Word Soi-disant Definition Calling himself; self-styled; pretended; would-be.
- English Word Soil Definition To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an inclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence (such food having the effect of purging them), to purge by feeding on green food; as, to soil a horse.
- English Word Soil Definition The upper stratum of the earth; the mold, or that compound substance which furnishes nutriment to plants, or which is particularly adapted to support and nourish them.
- English Word Soil Definition Land; country.
- English Word Soil Definition Dung; faeces; compost; manure; as, night soil.
- English Word Soil Definition To enrich with soil or muck; to manure.
- English Word Soil Definition A marshy or miry place to which a hunted boar resorts for refuge; hence, a wet place, stream, or tract of water, sought for by other game, as deer.
- English Word Soil Definition To make dirty or unclean on the surface; to foul; to dirty; to defile; as, to soil a garment with dust.
- English Word Soil Definition To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.