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- English Word Sopsavine Definition See Sops of wine, under Sop.
- English Word Sora Definition A North American rail (Porzana Carolina) common in the Eastern United States. Its back is golden brown, varied with black and white, the front of the head and throat black, the breast and sides of the head and neck slate-colored. Called also American rail, Carolina rail, Carolina crake, common rail, sora rail, soree, meadow chicken, and orto.
- English Word Sorance Definition Soreness.
- English Word Sorb Definition The wild service tree (Pyrus torminalis) of Europe; also, the rowan tree.
- English Word Sorb Definition The fruit of these trees.
- English Word Sorbate Definition A salt of sorbic acid.
- English Word Sorbefacient Definition Producing absorption.
- English Word Sorbefacient Definition A medicine or substance which produces absorption.
- English Word Sorbent Definition An absorbent.
- English Word Sorbet Definition A kind of beverage; sherbet.
- English Word Sorbic Definition Pertaining to, or obtained from, the rowan tree, or sorb; specifically, designating an acid, C/H/CO/H, of the acetylene series, found in the unripe berries of this tree, and extracted as a white crystalline substance.
- English Word Sorbile Definition Fit to be drunk or sipped.
- English Word Sorbin Definition An unfermentable sugar, isomeric with glucose, found in the ripe berries of the rowan tree, or sorb, and extracted as a sweet white crystalline substance; -- called also mountain-ash sugar.
- English Word Sorbite Definition A sugarlike substance, isomeric with mannite and dulcite, found with sorbin in the ripe berries of the sorb, and extracted as a sirup or a white crystalline substance.
- English Word Sorbition Definition The act of drinking or sipping.
- English Word Sorbonical Definition Belonging to the Sorbonne or to a Sorbonist.
- English Word Sorbonist Definition A doctor of the Sorbonne, or theological college, in the University of Paris, founded by Robert de Sorbon, a. d. 1252. It was suppressed in the Revolution of 1789.
- English Word Sorcerer Definition A conjurer; an enchanter; a magician.
- English Word Sorceress Definition A female sorcerer.
- English Word Sorceries Definition of Sorcery