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Webster 1913 Edition

Sob

Sob

(sŏb)
,
Verb.
T.
[See
Sop
.]
To soak.
[Obs.]
Mortimer.

Sob

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Sobbed
(sŏbd)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Sobbing
.]
[OE.
sobben
; akin to AS.
seófian
,
siófian
, to complain, bewail,
seófung
,
siófung
, sobbing, lamentation; cf. OHG.
sūftōn
,
sūftjōn
, to sigh, MHG.
siuften
,
siufzen
, G.
seufzen
, MHG.
sūft
a sigh, properly, a drawing in of breath, from
sūfen
to drink, OHG.
sūfan
. Cf.
Sup
.]
To sigh with a sudden heaving of the breast, or with a kind of convulsive motion; to sigh with tears, and with a convulsive drawing in of the breath.
Sobbing
is the same thing [as sighing], stronger.
Bacon.
She sighed, she
sobbed
, and, furious with despair.
She rent her garments, and she tore her hair.
Dryden.

Sob

,
Noun.
1.
The act of sobbing; a convulsive sigh, or inspiration of the breath, as in sorrow.
Break, heart, or choke with
sobs
my hated breath.
Dryden.
2.
Any sorrowful cry or sound.
The tremulous
sob
of the complaining owl.
Wordsworth.

Webster 1828 Edition

Sob

SOB

,
Verb.
I.
To sigh with a sudden heaving of the breast, or a kind of convulsive motion; to sigh with deep sorrow or with tears. She sigh'd, she sobb'd, and furious wtih despair, she rent her garments, and she tore her hair.

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