*sort*

v. i. To agree; to be in accordance; to be adapted; to suit; to fall into a class or place. Mitford. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Selected; culled. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. assortiment. ] 1. Act of assorting, or distributing into sorts, kinds, or classes. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A collection or quantity of things distributed into kinds or sorts; a number of things assorted. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A collection containing a variety of sorts or kinds adapted to various wants, demands, or purposes; as, an assortment of goods. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To assort or be congruous with; to fit, or become. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Such men as may besort your age. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Befitting associates or attendants. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

With such accommodation and besort
As levels with her breeding. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Consorted; p. pr. & vb. n. Consorting. ] To unite or to keep company; to associate; -- used with with. [ 1913 Webster ]

Which of the Grecian chiefs consorts with thee? Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. consore, -sortis; con- + sors lot, fate, share. See Sort. ] 1. One who shares the lot of another; a companion; a partner; especially, a wife or husband. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

He single chose to live, and shunned to wed,
Well pleased to want a consort of his bed. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

The consort of the queen has passed from this troubled sphere. Thakeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

The snow-white gander, invariably accompanied by his darker consort. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Naut.) A ship keeping company with another. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Concurrence; conjunction; combination; association; union. “By Heaven's consort.” Fuller. “Working in consort.” Hare. [ 1913 Webster ]

Take it singly, and it carries an air of levity; but, in consort with the rest, has a meaning quite different. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. [ LL. consortium. ] An assembly or association of persons; a company; a group; a combination. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

In one consort' there sat
Cruel revenge and rancorous despite,
Disloyal treason, and heart-burning hate. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lord, place me in thy consort. Herbert. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. [ Perh. confused with concert. ] Harmony of sounds; concert, as of musical instruments. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

To make a sad consort';
Come, let us join our mournful song with theirs. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Prince consort, the husband of a queen regnant. --
Queen consort, the wife of a king, as distinguished from a queen regnant, who rules alone, and a queen dowager, the window of a king. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To unite or join, as in affection, harmony, company, marriage, etc.; to associate. [ 1913 Webster ]

He with his consorted Eve. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

For all that pleasing is to living ears
Was there consorted in one harmony. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

He begins to consort himself with men. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To attend; to accompany. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou, wretched boy, that didst consort him here,
Shalt with him hence. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Suitable for association or companionship. [ Obs. ] Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. consortio. ] Fellowship; association; companionship. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The condition of a consort; fellowship; partnership. Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. not well matched.
Syn. -- incompatible, mismated, unsuited. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. A machine that sorts mail, according to the address. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. ressort. ] Active power or movement; spring. [ A Gallicism ] [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Some . . . know the resorts and falls of business that can not sink into the main of it. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Resorted; p. pr. & vb. n. Resorting. ] [ OF. resortir to withdraw, take refuge, F. ressortir to be in the jurisdiction, LL. resortire; pref. re- re- + L. sortiri to draw lots, obtain by lot, from sors lot. See Sort. The meaning is first to reobtain (by lot), then to gain by appeal to a higher court (as a law term), to appeal, go for protection or refuge. ] 1. To go; to repair; to betake one's self. [ 1913 Webster ]

What men name resort to him? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To fall back; to revert. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The inheritance of the son never resorted to the mother, or to any of her ancestors. Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To have recourse; to apply; to one's self for help, relief, or advantage. [ 1913 Webster ]

The king thought it time to resort to other counsels. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. ressort jurisdiction. See Resort, v. ] 1. The act of going to, or making application; a betaking one's self; the act of visiting or seeking; recourse; as, a place of popular resort; -- often figuratively; as, to have resort to force. [ 1913 Webster ]

Join with me to forbid him her resort. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A place to which one betakes himself habitually; a place of frequent assembly; a haunt. [ 1913 Webster ]

Far from all resort of mirth. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That to which one resorts or looks for help; resource; refuge. [ 1913 Webster ]

Last resort, ultimate means of relief; also, final tribunal; that from which there is no appeal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who resorts; a frequenter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. sorie (cf. It. sorta, sorte), from L. sors, sorti, a lot, part, probably akin to serere to connect. See Series, and cf. Assort, Consort, Resort, Sorcery, Sort lot. ] 1. A kind or species; any number or collection of individual persons or things characterized by the same or like qualities; a class or order; as, a sort of men; a sort of horses; a sort of trees; a sort of poems. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Manner; form of being or acting. [ 1913 Webster ]

Which for my part I covet to perform,
In sort as through the world I did proclaim. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Flowers, in such sort worn, can neither be smelt nor seen well by those that wear them. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

I'll deceive you in another sort. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

To Adam in what sort
Shall I appear? Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

I shall not be wholly without praise, if in some sort I have copied his style. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Condition above the vulgar; rank. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A chance group; a company of persons who happen to be together; a troop; also, an assemblage of animals. [ Obs. ] “A sort of shepherds.” Spenser. “A sort of steers.” Spenser. “A sort of doves.” Dryden. “A sort of rogues.” Massinger. [ 1913 Webster ]

A boy, a child, and we a sort of us,
Vowed against his voyage. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A pair; a set; a suit. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. pl. (Print.) Letters, figures, points, marks, spaces, or quadrats, belonging to a case, separately considered. [ 1913 Webster ]

Out of sorts (Print.), with some letters or sorts of type deficient or exhausted in the case or font; hence, colloquially, out of order; ill; vexed; disturbed. --
To run upon sorts (Print.), to use or require a greater number of some particular letters, figures, or marks than the regular proportion, as, for example, in making an index. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Kind; species; rank; condition. -- Sort, Kind. Kind originally denoted things of the same family, or bound together by some natural affinity; and hence, a class. Sort signifies that which constitutes a particular lot of parcel, not implying necessarily the idea of affinity, but of mere assemblage. the two words are now used to a great extent interchangeably, though sort (perhaps from its original meaning of lot) sometimes carries with it a slight tone of disparagement or contempt, as when we say, that sort of people, that sort of language. [ 1913 Webster ]

As when the total kind
Of birds, in orderly array on wing,
Came summoned over Eden to receive
Their names of there. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

None of noble sort
Would so offend a virgin. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. sorl, L. sors, sortis. See Sort kind. ] Chance; lot; destiny. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

By aventure, or sort, or cas [ chance ]. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let blockish Ajax draw
The sort to fight with Hector. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Sorted; p. pr. & vb. n. Sorting. ] 1. To separate, and place in distinct classes or divisions, as things having different qualities; as, to sort cloths according to their colors; to sort wool or thread according to its fineness. [ 1913 Webster ]

Rays which differ in refrangibility may be parted and sorted from one another. Sir I. Newton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To reduce to order from a confused state. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class. [ 1913 Webster ]

Shellfish have been, by some of the ancients, compared and sorted with insects. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

She sorts things present with things past. Sir J. Davies. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To choose from a number; to select; to cull. [ 1913 Webster ]

That he may sort out a worthy spouse. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

I'll sort some other time to visit you. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To conform; to adapt; to accommodate. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I pray thee, sort thy heart to patience. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To join or associate with others, esp. with others of the same kind or species; to agree. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nor do metals only sort and herd with metals in the earth, and minerals with minerals. Woodward. [ 1913 Webster ]

The illiberality of parents towards children makes them base, and sort with any company. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize. [ 1913 Webster ]

They are happy whose natures sort with their vocations. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Things sort not to my will. herbert. [ 1913 Webster ]

I can not tell you precisely how they sorted. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. sortable suitable. ] 1. Capable of being sorted. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Suitable; befitting; proper. [ Obs. ] con. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Suitable. [ Obs. ] otgrave. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to a sort. [ Obs. ] Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Sort, v. i. ] Suitableness; agreement. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, sorts. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n., pl. of Sors. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. sortir to go out, to issue, probably fr. L. sortus, for surrectus, p. p. of surgere to raise up, to rise up. See Source. ] (Mil.) The sudden issuing of a body of troops, usually small, from a besieged place to attack or harass the besiegers; a sally. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. sortilège, fr. L. sors, sortis, a lot + legere to gather, to select. ] The act or practice of drawing lots; divination by drawing lots. [ 1913 Webster ]

A woman infamous for sortileges and witcheries. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to sortilege. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Sortilege. [ R. ] De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ It., a coming out. ] 1. The air sung by any of the principal characters in an opera on entering. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. A closing voluntary; a postlude. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ L. sortitio, from sortiri to draw or cast lots, fr. sors, sortis, a lot. ] Selection or appointment by lot. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Assortiment. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]