<B>sod</B> (1), noun, verb, <B>sodded,</B> <B>sodding.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>ground covered with grass. <BR> <I>Ex. Scores of species of smaller grasses and of colorful wildflowers, all knit together into a deep, tough sod (Fred W. Emerson).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a piece or layer of this containing the grass and its roots. <BR> <I>Ex. Some pioneers on the western prairies built houses of sods.</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> to cover with sods. <BR> <I>Ex. We must have the bare spots of our lawn sodded.</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>the old sod,</B> </I>(Informal.) one's native country or district. <BR> <I>Ex. And did ye see old Ireland lately? And how's the poor old sod? (E. Roper).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>under the sod,</B> </I>buried. <BR> <I>Ex. I've heard the boys say that he would be under the sod that day (Anthony Trollope).</I> </DL>
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<B>sod</B> (2), noun, verb, <B>sodded,</B> <B>sodding.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (British Slang.) <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a sodomite. <DD><B> 2. </B>a contemptible or low person. <DD><B> 3. </B>a chap; fellow. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to curse; damn. <BR> <I>Ex. "Sod the shareholders and let's get at the assets" (Sunday Times).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>sod off,</B> </I>to go away; bugger off. <BR> <I>Ex. "Sod off, or I'll call the fuzz," said a pair of ... lips through a crack (Alan Brien).</I> </DL>
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<B>sod</B> (3), verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Obsolete.) a past tense of <B>seethe.</B> </DL>
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<B>soda, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>any one of several chemical substances containing sodium, such as sodium carbonate (washing soda or sal soda), sodium bicarbonate (baking soda), and sodium hydroxide (caustic soda). <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=soda water.</B> <DD><B> 3. </B>soda water flavored with fruit juice or syrup, and usually containing ice cream. <BR> <I>Ex. a chocolate soda.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>the top card, shown face up in the dealing box, as play begins in the game of faro. </DL>
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<B>soda ash,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> partly purified sodium carbonate. <BR> <I>Ex. Soda ash is used largely by glass makers (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
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<B>soda biscuit,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a biscuit made with baking soda and sour milk. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=soda cracker.</B> </DL>
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<B>soda bread,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> bread made with baking soda and sour milk. </DL>
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<B>soda cracker,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a simple, light, thin cracker made with little or no sugar or shortening. </DL>
<A NAME="sodafountain">
<B>soda fountain,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>an apparatus, often, with faucets for holding and for drawing off soda water and syrups. <DD><B> 2. </B>a counter with places for holding soda water, flavored syrups, ice cream, and soft drinks. <DD><B> 3. </B>a store having such a counter. </DL>
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<B>soda jerk</B> or <B>jerker,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Slang.) a person who works behind a soda fountain. <BR> <I>Ex. A jumbo-sized banana split Which, when the soda jerk was through, Looked like the Taj Mahal in goo (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
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<B>soda-lead glass,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an expensive glass made of lead oxide, widely used for fine tableware and art objects because it is soft and easy to melt; lead glass. </DL>
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<B>soda lime,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a mixture of sodium hydroxide (caustic soda) and calcium hydroxide (slaked lime), used as a reagent and to absorb gases, especially carbon dioxide, and moisture. </DL>
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<B>soda-lime glass,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a strong inexpensive glass made of silica, sodium oxide, and calcium oxide, used for window glass, containers, and electric light bulbs. </DL>
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<B>sodalite, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a silicate of sodium and aluminum with chlorine. It occurs in crystals and also massively, is usually blue, and is found in igneous rocks. <BR> <I>Ex. Princess marble or sodalite is used for ornamental purposes (A. Pabst).</I> </DL>
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<B>sodality, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ties.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>fellowship; friendship. <DD><B> 2. </B>an association, society, or fraternity. <BR> <I>Ex. There were ... military sodalities of musketeers, cross-bowmen, archers, swordsmen in every town (John L. Motley).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a lay society of the Roman Catholic Church with religious or charitable purposes. </DL>
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<B>sodamide, </B>noun. =sodium amide.</DL>
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<B>soda pop,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a sweet-flavored, nonalcoholic carbonated drink. </DL>
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<B>soda water,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> water charged with carbon dioxide to make it bubble and fizz, often served with the addition of syrup and ice cream, or mixed with an alcoholic drink; carbonated water. </DL>
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<B>sodbuster, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Western U.S. Slang.) a farmer. <BR> <I>Ex. Its tune was familiar to the lonely "sodbuster" (Carl Sandburg).</I> </DL>
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<B>sodden, </B>adjective, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>soaked through; saturated. <BR> <I>Ex. My clothes were sodden with rain.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>heavy and moist; soggy. <BR> <I>Ex. This bread is sodden because it was not baked well.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>dull-looking; stupid. <BR> <I>Ex. a sodden face, a head sodden with whiskey.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>(Obsolete.) boiled; seethed. <DD><I>v.t., v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to make or become sodden. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Obsolete.) a past participle of <B>seethe.</B> adv. <B>soddenly.</B> noun <B>soddenness.</B> </DL>
<B>soddy, </B>adjective, <B>-dier,</B> <B>-diest,</B> noun, pl. <B>-dies.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> of or like sod; made of sods. <DD><I>noun </I> a house made of sods. <BR> <I>Ex. Later, settlers often improved their soddies by whitewashing the walls and hauling in lumber for doors and ceilings (Charlton Laird).</I> </DL>
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<B>sod house,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a house made of sods, especially houses that were built by early plains settlers who had no trees to supply lumber. </DL>
<B>sodium, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a soft, silver-white, chemical element found only in combination with other elements. Salt and soda contain sodium. Sodium is one of the alkali metals which oxidize rapidly in the presence of air and react violently with water. <BR> <I>Ex. Sodium is made by distillation and in New York any still--sodium or bourbon--must be okayed by the liquor board (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
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<B>sodium acetate,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a colorless crystalline or white granular salt of acetic acid, used in dyeing and as a reagent in photography. </DL>
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<B>sodium alginate,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a cream-colored, powdery salt of algin obtained from kelp, used in making hand lotions and reducing pills, as a food preservative, and to thicken buttermilk and ice cream. </DL>
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<B>sodium amide,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a white, crystalline, flammable powder used in making sodium cyanide and in organic synthesis; sodamide. </DL>
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<B>sodium arsenite,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a very piosonous, white or grayish-white powdery salt, used as an insecticide against termites and scale insects and as an antiseptic. </DL>
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<B>sodium benzoate,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a white crystalline or powdery salt of benzoic acid, used especially to preserve food and in medicine as an antiseptic. </DL>
<A NAME="sodiumbicarbonate">
<B>sodium bicarbonate,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a powdery, white, crystalline salt, with a somewhat alkaline taste, used in cooking, baking powder, medicine, and manufacturing; baking soda; bicarbonate of soda. Sodium bicarbonate soothes irritations of the skin and is a source of carbon dioxide. </DL>
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<B>sodium bisulfate,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a crystalline or white granular salt, used as a strong acid in dyeing, in the manufacture of paper, glue, soap, and perfume, as a disinfectant, and as a flux for decomposing metals. </DL>
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<B>sodium borate,</B> =borax.</DL>
<A NAME="sodiumborohydride">
<B>sodium borohydride,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a crystalline salt, used to reduce aldehydes, ketones, and acid halides, and in making fuels for jet airplanes and guided missiles. </DL>
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<B>sodium bromide,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a white, crystalline, granular or powdery salt with a somewhat bitter taste, used in photography and in medicine as a sedative. </DL>
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<B>sodium carbonate,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a salt that occurs in a powdery white form called soda ash and in a crystalline form called sal soda or washing soda. It is used for softening water, making soap and glass, neutralizing acids, as a reagent, and in medicine and photography. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=sodium bicarbonate.</B> </DL>
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<B>sodium chlorate,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a colorless crystalline salt, used as an oxidizing agent, in fireworks and explosives, in dyeing, and as an antiseptic in toothpaste and mouthwash. </DL>
<B>sodium citrate,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a white, odorless, crystalline, granular or powdery salt, used in photography, in medicine as a diuretic and expectorant and to prevent stored blood from clotting, and in preserving foods. </DL>
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<B>sodium cyanide,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a very poisonous, white, crystalline salt, used in the cyanide process for extracting gold and silver from ores, and in fumigating. </DL>
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<B>sodium dichromate,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an orange crystalline salt, used as an oxidizing agent, as a reagent, and as an antiseptic. </DL>
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<B>sodium fluoride,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a crystalline salt, used as an insecticide, a disinfectant, in the fluoridation of water, and in treating certain forms of tooth decay. </DL>
<A NAME="sodiumfluoroacetate">
<B>sodium fluoroacetate,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a white, odorless, poisonous powder used as a rodenticide; ten-eighty. </DL>
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<B>sodium hydroxide,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a white solid that is a strong, corrosive alkali; caustic soda. It is used in making hard soaps and rayon, in the paper industry, in tanning, and as a bleaching agent. </DL>
