||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.
Sor"we (?), n. & v. Sorrow. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Sor"we*ful (?), a. Sorrowful. [Obs.] Chaucer.
So"ry (?), n. [L. sory, Gr. &?;.] (Old Min. Chem.) Green vitriol, or
some earth imregnated with it.
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`, adv. Tolerably; passably. H. James.
Soss (?; 115), v. i. [Cf. Souse.] To fall at once into a chair or seat;
to sit lazily. [Obs.] Swift.
Soss, v. t. To throw in a negligent or careless manner; to toss. [Obs.]
Swift.
Soss, n. 1. A lazy fellow. [Obs.] Cotgrave.