Small lights are soon blown out, huge fires abide.
Shak.
4. Readily; willingly; -- in this sense used with would, or some other
word expressing will.
I would as soon see a river winding through woods or in meadows, as
when it is tossed up in so many whimsical figures at Versailles.
Addison.
As soon as, or So soon as, immediately at or after another event. "As
soon as he came nigh unto the camp . . . he saw the calf, and the
dancing." Ex. xxxii. 19. See So . . . as, under So. -- Soon at, as soon
as; or, as soon as the time referred to arrives. [Obs.] "I shall be
sent for soon at night." Shak. -- Sooner or later, at some uncertain
time in the future; as, he will discover his mistake sooner or later.
-- With the soonest, as soon as any; among the earliest; too soon.
[Obs.] Holland.
Soon, a. Speedy; quick. [Obs.] Shak.
Soo"nee (?), n. See Sunnite.
Soon"ly (?), adv. Soon. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.
Soord (?), n. Skin of bacon. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
Soor"ma (?), n. [Hind. & Per. surma.] A preparation of antimony with
which Mohammedan men anoint their eyelids.
Soo*shong" (?), n. See Souchong.
Soo"soo (?), n. (Zoöl.) A kind of dolphin (Platanista Gangeticus)
native of the river Ganges; the Gangetic dolphin. It has a long,
slender, somewhat spatulate beak. [Written also susu.]
Soot (? or ?; 277), n. [OE. sot, AS. s&?;t; akin to Icel. s&?;t, Sw.
sot, Dan. sod, OD. soet, Lith. s&?;dis; cf. Gael. suith, Ir. suth.] A
black substance formed by combustion, or disengaged from fuel in the
process of combustion, which rises in fine particles, and adheres to
the sides of the chimney or pipe conveying the smoke; strictly, the
fine powder, consisting chiefly of carbon, which colors smoke, and
which is the result of imperfect combustion. See Smoke.
Soot, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sooted; p. pr. & vb. n. Sooting.] To cover or
dress with soot; to smut with, or as with, soot; as, to soot land.
Mortimer.
{ Soot (?), Soot"e (?) }, a. [See Sweet.] Sweet. [Obs.] "The soote
savour of the vine." Chaucer.
Soot"er*kin (?), n. [Cf. Prov. G. suttern to boil gently.] A kind of
false birth, fabled to be produced by Dutch women from sitting over
their stoves; also, an abortion, in a figurative sense; an abortive
scheme.
Fruits of dull heat, and sooterkins of wit.
Pope.
Sooth (sth), a.; also adv. [Compar. Soother (sth"r); superl. Soothest.]
[OE. soth, AS. sð, for sanð; akin to OS. sð, OHG. sand, Icel. sannr,
Sw. sann, Dan. sand, Skr. sat, sant, real, genuine, present, being;
properly p. pr. from a root meaning, to be, Skr. as, L. esse; also akin
to Goth. sunjis true, Gr. 'eteo`s, Skr. satya. √9. Cf. Absent,
Am, Essence, Is, Soothe, Sutee.] 1. True; faithful; trustworthy. [Obs.
or Scot.]
The sentence [meaning] of it sooth is, out of doubt.
Chaucer.
That shall I sooth (said he) to you declare.
Spensser.