antiquity, sacrifices offered to the gods for delivering a person from danger; as also poetical pieces composed for the same purpose.

Souise, a town of France, in the department of Lower Charente, and late territory of Saintonge. It is seated on the river Charente, 22 miles south of Rochelle, in W. Long. 1. z. N. Lat. 45° 57'.

Sough, among miners, denotes a passage dug underground, to convey off waters from mines. See Mine.