SONNANT, Fr. A participle which is frequently used by the French, to express a specific period of time, or the nature of any thing.
A five heures SONNANTES, Fr. At five o’clock precisely, or as the clock strikes five.
Argent Sonnant, Fr. Hard cash. This term was in familiar use at the commencement of the French revolution, when it was found expedient to pay a select body of troops, called the gendarmes, in ready money, whilst the aggregate of the nation took paper currency or assignats.
SOODER, Ind. The fourth or lowest of the original tribes of Hindoos, as they come from the feet of Brama, which signifies subjection. They are obliged to labor, and to serve when called upon.
SOOKRBAR, Ind. Friday.
SOORETHAUL, Ind. Statement of a case.
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The small pipe or mouth piece of a trumpet.
SORN, a servile tenure in Scotland, by which a chieftain might, with his followers, live upon his tenants at free quarters.
SORTIES, in a siege, parties that sally out of a town secretly to annoy the besiegers, and retard their operations.