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Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there.

Gen. xii. 30.

Home he goeth, he might not longer sojourn.

Chaucer.

The soldiers first assembled at Newcastle, and there sojourned three days.

Hayward.

So"journ, n. [Cf. OF. sujurn, sujur, sejor, F. séjour. See Sojourn, v. i.] A temporary residence, as that of a traveler in a foreign land.

Though long detained In that obscure sojourn.

Milton.

So"journ*er (?), n. One who sojourns.

We are strangers before thee, and sojourners.

1. Chron. xxix. 15.

So"journ*ing, n. The act or state of one who sojourns.

So"journ*ment (?), n. Temporary residence, as that of a stranger or a traveler. [R.]

Soke (?), n. 1. (Eng. Law) See Soc.

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2. One of the small territorial divisions into which Lincolnshire, England, is divided.

Soke"man (?), n. See Socman.

Soke"man*ry (?), n. See Socmanry.

Sok"en (?), n. [Cf. Socome.] 1. A toll. See Soc, n., 2. [Obs.]

Great sooken had this miller, out of doubt.

Chaucer.

2. A district held by socage.

So"ko (?), n. (Zoöl.) An African anthropoid ape, supposed to be a variety of the chimpanzee.

||Sol (?), n. [L.] 1. The sun.

2. (Alchem.) Gold; -- so called from its brilliancy, color, and value. Chaucer.

Sol (?), n. [It.] (Mus.) (a) A syllable applied in solmization to the note G, or to the fifth tone of any diatonic scale. (b) The tone itself.

Sol (?), n. [See Sou.] 1. A sou.

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