Chapter Soldier to Song of S by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

Solyman, king of the Turks (in Jerusalem Delivered), whose capital was Nice. Being driven from his kingdom, he fled to Egypt, and was there appointed leader of the Arabs (bk. ix.). He and Argantes were by far the most doughty of the pagan knights. Solyman was slain by Rinaldo (bk. xx.), and Argantes by Tancred.

Soma The moon, born from the eyes of Atri, son of Brahma; made the sovereign of plants and planets. Soma ran away with Tara (Star), wife of Vrihaspata, preceptor of the gods, and Buddha was their offspring. (Hindu mythology.)
   To drink the Soma. To become immortal. In the Vedic hymns the Soma is the moon- plant, the juice of which confers immortality, and exhilarates even the gods. It is said to be brought down from heaven by a falcon. (Scandinavian mythology.)

Somagia (singular somagium). Horse-loads. Italian, soma, a burden; somaro, a beast of burden, an ass. (See Sumpter .)

Sombrero A Spanish hat with a very wide brim.

Somerset Anciently Sumorsoete or Sumorsoet- i.e. Suth-mor-soet (south moor camp).

Somerset or Somersault. A leap in which a person turns head over heels in the air and lights on his feet. (Latin, super saltus; French, soubresaut.) Sometimes a person will turn twice or thrice in the air before he touches the ground.

“First that could make love faces, or could do
The valter's sombersalts.”
Donne: Poems, p. 300.

Somerset House occupies the site of a princely mansion built by Somerset the Protector, brother of Lady Jane Seymour, and uncle of Edward VI. At the death of Somerset on the scaffold it became the property of the Crown, and in the reign of James I. was called Denmark House in honour of Anne of Denmark, his queen. Old Somerset House was pulled down in the eighteenth century, and the present structure was erected by Sir William Chambers in 1776.

Somoreen (See Zamorin .)

Son (or descendant of). Norman, Fitz-; Gaelic, Mac; Welsh, Ap- (sometimes contracted into P, as P- richard); Irish, O'; Hebrew and Arabic, Ben-, all prefixes: English, -son; Russian, -vitch or -witch, postfixes.

Son of Belial One of a wicked disposition; a companion of the wicked. (See Judges xix. 22.)

“Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial, they knew not the Lord.”- 1 Samuel ii. 12.

Son of Dripping (A). A man cook, a turnspit.

“Yet, son of dripping ... let us halt;
Soft fires, the proverb tells us, make sweet malt.”
Peter Pindar: The Lousiad, canto ii.

Son of One Year A child one year old; similarly a “son of sixty years,” etc. (Exodus xii. 5.)

Son of Perdition Judas Iscariot. (John xvii. 12.)
   Son of perdition. Antichrist, who not only draws others to perdition, but is himself devoted to destruction. (2 Thessalonians ii. 3.)

Son of the Morning A traveller. An Oriental phrase, alluding to the custom of rising early in the morning to avoid the mid-day heat, when on one's travels.

Son of the Star [Bar Cochab]. A name assumed by Simon the Jew, in the reign of Hadrian, who gave himself out to be the “Star out of Jacob” mentioned in Numbers xxiv. 17.

Sons of God Angels, genuine Christians, or believers who are the sons of God by adoption.

“As many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.”- Romans viii. 14.

   Sons of God. When Judæa was a theocracy the representative of God on earth was by the Jews called god; hence