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Soak
v. t.
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To draw in by the pores, or through small passages; as, a sponge soaks up water; the skin soaks in moisture.
Soak
v. t.
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To make (its way) by entering pores or interstices; -- often with through.
Soak
v. t.
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Fig.: To absorb; to drain.
Soak
v. i.
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To lie steeping in water or other liquid; to become sturated; as, let the cloth lie and soak.
Soak
v. i.
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To enter (into something) by pores or interstices; as, water soaks into the earth or other porous matter.
Soak
v. i.
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To drink intemperately or gluttonously.
Soakage
n.
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The act of soaking, or the state of being soaked; also, the quantity that enters or issues by soaking.
Soaker
n.
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One who, or that which, soaks.
Soaker
n.
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A hard drinker.
Soaking
a.
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Wetting thoroughly; drenching; as, a soaking rain.
Soaky
a.
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Full of moisture; wet; soppy.
Soal
n.
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The sole of a shoe.
Soal
n.
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See Sole, the fish.
Soal
n.
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A dirty pond.
Soam
n.
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A chain by which a leading horse draws a plow.
Soap
n.
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A substance which dissolves in water, thus forming a lather, and is used as a cleansing agent. Soap is produced by combining fats or oils with alkalies or alkaline earths, usually by boiling, and consists of salts of sodium, potassium, etc., with the fatty acids (oleic, stearic, palmitic, etc.). See the Note below, and cf. Saponification. By extension, any compound of similar composition or properties, whether used as a cleaning agent or not.
Soaped
imp. & p. p.
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of Soap
Soaping
p. pr. & vb. n.
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of Soap
Soap
v. t.
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To rub or wash over with soap.
Soap
v. t.
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To flatter; to wheedle.
Soapberry tree
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Any tree of the genus Sapindus, esp. Sapindus saponaria, the fleshy part of whose fruit is used instead of soap in washing linen; -- also called soap tree.
Soapfish
n.
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Any serranoid fish of the genus Rhypticus; -- so called from the soapy feeling of its skin.
Soapiness
n.
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Quality or state of being soapy.
Soaproot
n.
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A perennial herb (Gypsophila Struthium) the root of which is used in Spain as a substitute for soap.
Soapstone
n.
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See Steatite, and Talc.
Soapsuds
n. pl.
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Suds made with soap.
Soapwort
n.
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A common plant (Saponaria officinalis) of the Pink family; -- so called because its bruised leaves, when agitated in water, produce a lather like that from soap. Called also Bouncing Bet.
Soapy
superl.
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Resembling soap; having the qualities of, or feeling like, soap; soft and smooth.
Soapy
superl.
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Smeared with soap; covered with soap.
Soared
imp. & p. p.
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of Soar