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English Dictionary: sock	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for sock
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sock n hosiery consisting of a cloth covering for the foot; worn inside the shoe; reaches to between the ankle and the knee a truncated cloth cone mounted on a mast; used (e.g., at airports) to show the direction of the wind Synonym(s): windsock, wind sock, sock, air sock, air-sleeve, wind sleeve, wind cone, drogue v hit hard [syn: sock, bop, whop, whap, bonk, bash]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Socialism \Socialism\, n. {Socialism of the chair} [G. katheder socialismus], a term applied about 1872, at first in ridicule, to a group of German political economists who advocated state aid for the betterment of the working classes. Sock \Sock\, v. t. [Perh. shortened fr. sockdolager.] To hurl, drive, or strike violently; -- often with it as an object. [Prov. or Vulgar] --Kipling.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sock \Sock\, n. [F. soc, LL. soccus, perhaps of Celtic origin.] A plowshare. --Edin. Encyc.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sock \Sock\, n. [OE. sock, AS. socc, fr. L. soccus a kind of low-heeled, light shoe. Cf. {Sucket}.] 1. The shoe worn by actors of comedy in ancient Greece and Rome, -- used as a symbol of comedy, or of the comic drama, as distinguished from tragedy, which is symbolized by the {buskin}. Great Fletcher never treads in buskin here, Nor greater Jonson dares in socks appear. --Dryden. 2. A knit or woven covering for the foot and lower leg; a stocking with a short leg. 3. A warm inner sole for a shoe. --Simmonds.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Soc \Soc\ (s[ocr]k), n. [AS. s[omac]c the power of holding court, sway, domain, properly, the right of investigating or seeking; akin to E. sake, seek. {Sake}, {Seek}, and cf. {Sac}, and {Soke}.] [Written also {sock}, and {soke}.] 1. (O. Eng. Law) (a) The lord's power or privilege of holding a court in a district, as in manor or lordship; jurisdiction of causes, and the limits of that jurisdiction. (b) Liberty or privilege of tenants excused from customary burdens. 2. An exclusive privilege formerly claimed by millers of grinding all the corn used within the manor or township which the mill stands. [Eng.] {Soc and sac} (O. Eng. Law), the full right of administering justice in a manor or lordship.