2. A yellowish or reddish brown color; sorrel.

Sore"ly (?), adv. In a sore manner; grievously; painfully; as, to be

sorely afflicted.

||So*re"ma (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; a heap.] (Bot.) A heap of carpels

||belonging to one flower.

Sore"ness (?), n. The quality or state of being sore; tenderness;

painfull; as, the soreness of a wound; the soreness of an affliction.

||So"rex (?), n. [L., a shrew.] (Zoöl.) A genus of small Insectivora,

||including the common shrews.

Sor"ghe (sôr"g), n. (Zoöl.) The three-bearded rockling, or whistlefish.

[Prov. Eng.]

Sor"ghum (?), n. [NL., probably of Chinese origin.] (Bot.) (a) A genus

of grasses, properly limited to two species, Sorghum Halepense, the

Arabian millet, or Johnson grass (see Johnson grass), and S. vulgare,

the Indian millet (see Indian millet, under Indian). (b) A variety of

Sorghum vulgare, grown for its saccharine juice; the Chinese sugar

cane.

Sor"go (?), n. [Cf. It. sorgo. See Sorghum.] (Bot.) Indian millet and

its varieties. See Sorghum.

||So"ri (?), n., pl. of Sorus.

So"ri*cine (?), a. [L. sorricinus, fr. sorex a shrew.] (Zoöl.) Of or

pertaining to the Shrew family (Soricidæ); like a shrew in form or

habits; as, the soricine bat (Glossophaga soricina).

So*ri"tes (?), n. [L., from Gr. swrei`ths (sc. syllogismo`s), properly,

heaped up (hence, a heap of syllogisms), fr. swro`s a heap.] (Logic) An

abridged form of stating of syllogisms in a series of propositions so

arranged that the predicate of each one that precedes forms the subject

of each one that follows, and the conclusion unites the subject of the

first proposition with the predicate of the last proposition, as in

following example; --

The soul is a thinking agent; A thinking agent can not be severed

into parts; That which can not be severed can not be destroyed;

Therefore the soul can not be destroyed.

When the series is arranged in the reverse order, it is called the

Goclenian sorites, from Goclenius, a philosopher of the sixteenth

century.

Destructive sorities. See under Destructive.

So"rit"ic*al, a. Of or pertaining to a sorites; resembling a sorites.

Sorn (?), v. i. [See Sorehon.] To obtrude one's self on another for bed

and board. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

Sorn"er (?), n. One who obtrudes himself on another for bed and board.

[Scot.] De Quncey.

So*ro"ral (?), a. [L. soror sister: cf. F. sororal.] Relating to a

sister; sisterly. [R.]

So*ror"i*cide (?; 277), n. [L. sororocida, and sororicidium; soror a

sister + caedere to kill.] The murder of one's sister; also, one who

murders or kills one's own sister. Johnson.

So*ro"rize (? or ?), v. i. [L. soror, sororis, a sister.] To associate,

or hold fellowship, as sisters; to have sisterly feelings; -- analogous

to fraternize. [Recent & R.]

So*ro"sis (?), n. [NL. See Sororize.] A woman's club; an association of

women. [U. S.]

||So*ro"sis, n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; a heap.] (Bot.) A fleshy fruit formed

||by the consolidation of many flowers with their receptacles, ovaries,

||etc., as the breadfruit, mulberry, and pineapple.

Sor"rage (?; 48), n. [Cf. Sorrel, n.] The blades of green or barley.

[Obs.] Bailey.

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