Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
OE. sope, AS. sāpe,; akin to D. zeep, G. seife, OHG. seifa, Icel. sāpa, Sw. spa, Dan. sbe, and perhaps to AS. sīpan, to drip, MHG. sīfen, and L. sebum, tallow. Cf. Saponaceous
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
A.S. sápe; Dut. zeep, Ger. seife.
In literature:
I recalled, with a smile, that Burke had smelled of laundry soap, and that on the wash-stand in Maillot's room there had been no soap at all.
"The Paternoster Ruby" by Charles Edmonds Walk
I used soap and water as a lubricant, and the work was satisfactory.
"On Laboratory Arts" by Richard Threlfall
No nothing, except good soap at three cents a cake, plus postage.
"Subversive" by Dallas McCord Reynolds
In many years' use of arsenic, dry, in wet solution, and in soap, I have received nothing more serious than an occasional sore finger.
"Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit" by Albert B. Farnham
Afterwards the leg may be dried with a woolen cloth and bathed with camphorated soap liniment.
"Special Report on Diseases of the Horse" by United States Department of Agriculture
Her eyes at once fell upon the bowl full of soap-suds Meg had placed on a chair.
"Hatty and Marcus" by Aunt Friendly
When sufficiently fulled, the length of cloth is scoured to free it from soap.
"Textiles" by William H. Dooley
Do not rub soap directly on the woollen material, but use soap solutions.
"Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Management" by Ministry of Education
These days, Johnnie again wore the apron, and neglected the soap and the comb and the brushing.
"The Rich Little Poor Boy" by Eleanor Gates
He's never touched taller or soap in his life, I'll bet.
"The Golden Magnet" by George Manville Fenn
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In poetry:
"But tell me, dear, before you go
Unto your daily work,
Shall I use Ivory soap on him,
Or Colgate, Pears' or Kirk?"
"The Ballad Of The Taylor Pup" by Eugene Field
And so my Pete was taken home—
My pretty piccaninny!
And, not to speak of soap or comb,
His cleansing cost a guinea.
"Peter the Piccaninny" by Henry Kendall
Still, seeing that a little soap
Would soften an excess of tint,
You’ll pardon my advance, I hope,
In giving you a gentle hint.
"Black Lizzie" by Henry Kendall
But what can careless Molly hope
When she destroys two drams of soap?
Left in the sink while water pours
A text he'd handle full two hours.
"The Parson In Pickle" by William Hutton
The mother turned round for the soap from the rack
She weren't gone a minute, but when she got back
Her baby had gone, and in anguish she cried
"Oh, where is my baby?", and the angels replied
"Biby's Epitaph" by Anonymous British
You think you're right handy with gun and with rope,
But I've noticed you're bashful when usin' the soap:
When you're rollin' your Bull for your brown cigarette
I' been rollin' the dough for them biscuits you et.
"Punchin' Dough" by Henry Herbert Knibbs
In news:
The game is called 'Soap Soccer' and it features hot ladies that are all soaped up and ready for some soccer action.
At a time when all software looks more and more alike, Kai's Photo Soap from MetaCreations (800 472-9025) certainly stands out.
Lynne O'Hara, right, a visitor from England, smells some of the bar soaps at Naples Soap Co.
Take the soap opera at HP, for instance .
Some words just leave a bad taste, and the notion of washing your mouth out with soap simply isn't going to do the trick.
James Franco's Soap-Opera Stint Is a Genius Move.
Today, however, I could write a laundry list of reasons — including "get laundry soap".
Open problems in soap bubble geometry .
A Space Opera Soap Opera.
So the situation in beautiful downtown Plano, Texas continues to get ever more interesting, the recent departure of Mike Francis being only the latest chapter in the soap opera that J.C. Penney has very quickly become.
Dad's Secret Stash — Soaping Up the Gremlin .
As he sat, tail wagging, she rinsed him with warm water and soaped.
The ballad of soap creek saloon.
Fox Searchlight might have to wash its mouth out with soap.
You turn on the TV, but old reruns and soaps and trash-talk shows only make you more aware of how lousy you feel.
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In science:
As we shall demonstrate below, friction causes the contact line to move downstream, and in the limiting case imposes the required contact angle on the soap film.
Deformation of a free interface pierced by a tilted cylinder
Consider the way in which soap bubbles arise from a statistical physics model of molecular forces.
Event-Symmetric Physics
The forces are functions of the relative positions and orientations of the soap and water molecules.
Event-Symmetric Physics
The system is consistent with the definition of event-symmetry since it is invariant under exchange of any two water or soap molecules and therefore has an S (N ) ⊗ S (M ) symmetry where N and M are the number of water and soap molecules.
Event-Symmetric Physics
Events in the soap bubble model correspond to molecules rather than space-time points.
Event-Symmetric Physics
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