SOSTRUM, sos'trum, _n._ a reward given for saving one's life, a physician's
fee. [Gr., _s[=o]zein_, to save.]
SOT, sot, _n._ one stupefied by drinking: a habitual drunkard.--_v.i._ to
play the sot, to tipple.--_adj._ SOT'TISH, like a sot: foolish: stupid with
drink.--_adv._ SOT'TISHLY.--_n._ SOT'TISHNESS. [O. Fr. _sot_, perh. of
Celt. origin; Bret. _sod_, stupid.]
SOTADEAN, sot-a-d[=e]'an, _adj._ pertaining to _Sotades_, a lascivious
Greek poet at Alexandria about 276 B.C. His _Cinoedi_ were malicious and
indecent satires and travesties of mythology written in Ionic dialect and
in a peculiar metre.--_n._ SOTAD'IC, a sotadean verse.
SOTERIOLOGY, s[=o]-t[=e]-ri-ol'[=o]-ji, _n._ (_theol._) the doctrine of
salvation by Jesus Christ.--_adjs._ SOT[=E]'RIAL, pertaining to redemption;
SOT[=E]RIOLOG'ICAL. [Gr. _s[=o]t[=e]rios_, saving--_s[=o]t[=e]r_, saviour,
_logia_--_legein_, to speak.]
SOTHIC, s[=o]'thik, _adj._ of or pertaining to the dog-star _Sothis_ or
Sirius.--SOTHIC CYCLE, or period, a period of 1460 years; SOTHIC YEAR, the
ancient Egyptian fixed year, according to the heliacal rising of Sirius.
SOTTO, sot't[=o], _adv._ under, below, as in SOTTO VOCE, in an undertone,
aside. [It.,--L. _subter_, under.]
SOU, s[=oo], _n._ a French copper coin, the five-centime piece=1/20th of a
franc. [Fr. _sou_ (It. _soldo_)--L. _solidus_, a coin.]
SOUARI, sow-ä'ri, _n._ a tree of British Guiana yielding a durable timber
and edible nuts.