[He] looked hollow and thereto soberly.
Chaucer.
So"ber-mind`ed (?), a. Having a disposition or temper habitually sober.
-- So"ber- mind`ed*ness, n.
So"ber*ness, n. The quality or state of being sober.
Sob"o*les (?), n. [L., a short.] (Bot.) (a) A shoot running along under
ground, forming new plants at short distances. (b) A sucker, as of tree
or shrub.
Sob`o*lif"er*ous (?), a. [L. soboles + -ferous.] (Bot.) Producing
soboles. See Illust. of Houseleek.
So*bri"e*ty (?), n. [L. sobrietas: cf. F. sobriété. See Sober.] 1.
Habitual soberness or temperance as to the use of spirituous liquors;
as, a man of sobriety.
Public sobriety is a relative duty.
Blackstone.
2. Habitual freedom from enthusiasm, inordinate passion, or overheated
imagination; calmness; coolness; gravity; seriousness; as, the sobriety
of riper years.
Mirth makes them not mad, Nor sobriety sad.
Denham.
Syn. -- Soberness; temperance; abstinence; abstemiousness; moderation;
regularity; steadness; calmness; coolness; sober- mindeness;
sedateness; staidness; gravity; seriousness; solemnity.
||So`bri`quet" (s`br`k"), n.[F. sobriquet, OF. soubzbriquet,
||soubriquet, a chuck under the chin, hence, an affront, a nickname; of
||uncertain origin; cf. It. sottobecco a chuck under the chin.] An
||assumed name; a fanciful epithet or appellation; a nickname.
||[Sometimes less correctly written soubriquet.]
Soc (sk), n. [AS. sc the power of holding court, sway, domain,
properly, the right of investigating or seeking; akin to E. sake, seek.
Sake, Seek, and cf. Sac, and Soke.] [Written also sock, and soke.] 1.
(O. Eng. Law) (a) 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. (b) Liberty or privilege of tenants
excused from customary burdens.
2. An exclusive privilege formerly claimed by millers of grinding all
the corn used within the manor or township which the mill stands.
[Eng.]
Soc and sac (O. Eng. Law), the full right of administering justice in a
manor or lordship.
Soc"age (?), n.[From Soc; cf. LL. socagium.] (O.Eng. Law) 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. [Written also
soccage.]
Socage is of two kinds; free socage, where the services are not only
certain, but honorable; and villein socage, where the services, though
certain, are of a baser nature. Blackstone.
Soc"a*ger (?), n. (O. Eng. Law) A tennant by socage; a socman.
So"-called` (?), a. So named; called by such a name (but perhaps called
thus with doubtful propriety).
So`cia*bil"i*ty (?), n.[Cf. F. sociabilité.] The quality of being
sociable; sociableness.
So"cia*ble (?), a.[F., fr. L. sociabilis, fr. sociare to associate, fr.
socius a companion. See Social.] 1. Capable of being, or fit to be,
united in one body or company; associable. [R.]
They are sociable parts united into one body.
Hooker.
2. Inclined to, or adapted for, society; ready to unite with others;
fond of companions; social.
Society is no comfort to one not sociable.
Shak.
What can be more uneasy to this sociable creature than the dry,
pensive retirements of solitude?
South.
3. Ready to converse; inclined to talk with others; not taciturn or
reserved.
4. Affording opportunites for conversation; characterized by much
conversation; as, a sociable party.