Sortance
(Sort"ance) n. [From Sort, v. i.] Suitableness; agreement. [Obs.] hak.
Sorter
(Sort"er) n. One who, or that which, sorts.
Sortes
(||Sor"tes) n., pl. of Sors.
Sortie
(Sor"tie) n. [F., fr. sortir to go out, to issue, probably fr. L. sortus, for surrectus, p. p. of surgere
to raise up, to rise up. See Source.] (Mil.) The sudden issuing of a body of troops, usually small, from
a besieged place to attack or harass the besiegers; a sally.
Sortilege
(Sor"ti*lege) n. [F. sortilège, fr. L. sors, sortis, a lot + legere to gather, to select.] The act
or practice of drawing lots; divination by drawing lots.
A woman infamous for sortileges and witcheries.
Sir W. Scott. Sortilegious
(Sor`ti*le"gious) a. Pertaining to sortilege.
Sortilegy
(Sor"til"e*gy) n. Sortilege. [R.] De Quincey.
Sortition
(Sor*ti"tion) n. [L. sortitio, from sortiri to draw or cast lots, fr. sors, sortis, a lot.] Selection
or appointment by lot. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
Sortment
(Sort"ment) n. Assortiment. [Obs.]
Sorus
(||So"rus) n.; pl. Sori [NL., fr. Gr. a heap.] (Bot.) One of the fruit dots, or small clusters of
sporangia, on the back of the fronds of ferns.
Sorwe
(Sor"we) n. & v. Sorrow. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Sorweful
(Sor"we*ful) a. Sorrowful. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Sory
(So"ry) n. [L. sory, Gr. .] (Old Min. Chem.) Green vitriol, or some earth imregnated with it.
So-so
(So"-so`) a. [So + so.] Neither very good nor very bad; middling; passable; tolerable; indifferent.
In some Irish houses, where things are so- so,
One gammon of bacon hangs up for a show.
Goldsmith.
He [Burns] certainly wrote some so-so verses to the Tree of Liberty.
Prof. Wilson. So-so
(So"-so`), adv. Tolerably; passably. H. James.
Soss
(Soss) v. i. [Cf. Souse.] To fall at once into a chair or seat; to sit lazily. [Obs.] Swift.
Soss
(Soss), v. t. To throw in a negligent or careless manner; to toss. [Obs.] Swift.
Soss
(Soss), n.
1. A lazy fellow. [Obs.] Cotgrave.
2. A heavy fall. [Prov. Eng.] Hallowell.
Soss
(Soss), n. [See Sesspol.] Anything dirty or muddy; a dirty puddle. [Prov. Eng.]
Sostenuto
(||Sos`te*nu"to) a. [It.] (Mus.) Sustained; — applied to a movement or passage the sounds
of which are to sustained to the utmost of the nominal value of the time; also, to a passage the tones of
which are to be somewhat prolonged or protacted.
