noun. A cleansing agent, manufactured in bars, granules, flakes, or liquid form, made from a mixture of the sodium salts of various fatty acids of natural oils and fats.

noun. A metallic salt of a fatty acid, as of aluminum or iron, that is not water soluble and may be used as a lubricant, thickener, or in various coating applications, ointments, or disinfectants.

noun. Money, especially that which is used for bribery.

noun. A soap opera.

transitive verb. To treat or cover with or as if with soap.

transitive verb. undefined

transitive verb. To softsoap; cajole.

transitive verb. To bribe.

idiom. (no soap) Not possible or permissible.

idiom. (no soap) Unsuccessful; futile.

To rub or treat with soap; apply soap to.

To use smooth words to; flatter.

noun. The fatty matter obtained by adding just enough acid to a soap solution to cause the separation of the fatty acids.

In calico-printing, to remove, by means of soap, impurities from (cloth) before bleaching; also, after printing, to remove the thickening used in the color.

noun. A chemical compound in common domestic use for washing and cleansing, made by the union of certain fatty acids with a salifiable base.

noun. A kind of pomade for coloring the hair.

noun. Smooth words; persuasion; flattery: more often called soft soap.

noun. Money secretly used for political purposes.

noun. white Castile soap, which contains 21 per cent of water, is of a pale grayish-white color, giving no oily stains to paper, free from rancid odor, and entirely soluble in alcohol or water; and

noun. marbled Castile soap, which is harder and more alkaline, contains 14 per cent. of water, and has veins or streaks of ferruginous matter running through it. Formerly also, erroneously, castle-soap; also Spanish soap.

noun. See def. 3.

transitive verb. To rub or wash over with soap.

transitive verb. To flatter; to wheedle.

noun. A substance which dissolves in water, thus forming a lather, and is used as a cleansing agent. Soap is produced by combining fats or oils with alkalies or alkaline earths, usually by boiling, and consists of salts of sodium, potassium, etc., with the fatty acids (oleic, stearic, palmitic, etc.). See the Note below, and cf. saponification. By extension, any compound of similar composition or properties, whether used as a cleaning agent or not.

noun. a fine-grained hard soap, white or mottled, made of olive oil and soda; -- called also Marseilles soap or Venetian soap.

noun. any one of a great variety of soaps, of different ingredients and color, which are hard and compact. All solid soaps are of this class.

noun. an insoluble, white, pliable soap made by saponifying an oil (olive oil) with lead oxide; -- used externally in medicine. Called also lead plaster, diachylon, etc.

noun. See under Marine.

noun. pills containing soap and opium.

noun. any soap made with potash, esp. the soft soaps, and a hard soap made from potash and castor oil.

noun. any hard soap charged with a gritty powder, as silica, alumina, powdered pumice, etc., which assists mechanically in the removal of dirt.

noun. a yellow soap containing resin, -- used in bleaching.

noun. a cheap soap containing water glass (sodium silicate).

noun. See Quillaia bark.

noun. a hollow iridescent globe, formed by blowing a film of soap suds from a pipe; figuratively, something attractive, but extremely unsubstantial.

noun. a cerate formed of soap, olive oil, white wax, and the subacetate of lead, sometimes used as an application to allay inflammation.

noun. the refuse fat of kitchens, slaughter houses, etc., used in making soap.

noun. a liniment containing soap, camphor, and alcohol.

noun. the hard kernel or seed of the fruit of the soapberry tree, -- used for making beads, buttons, etc.

noun. one of several plants used in the place of soap, as the Chlorogalum pomeridianum, a California plant, the bulb of which, when stripped of its husk and rubbed on wet clothes, makes a thick lather, and smells not unlike new brown soap. It is called also soap apple, soap bulb, and soap weed.

noun. Same as Soapberry tree.

noun. a soap containing a sodium salt. The soda soaps are all hard soaps.

noun. a soap of a gray or brownish yellow color, and of a slimy, jellylike consistence, made from potash or the lye from wood ashes. It is strongly alkaline and often contains glycerin, and is used in scouring wood, in cleansing linen, in dyehouses, etc. Figuratively, flattery; wheedling; blarney.

noun. hard soap for the toilet, usually colored and perfumed.

noun. A substance able to mix with both oil and water, used for cleaning, often in the form of a solid bar or in liquid form, derived from fats or made synthetically.

noun. A soap opera.

verb. To apply soap to in washing.

verb. To cover with soap as a prank.

verb. To be discreet about (a topic).

verb. To flatter; to wheedle.

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