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A week or so will probably reconcile us. --Gay. Note: See the Note under Ill, adv. So . . . as. So is now commonly used as a demonstrative correlative of as when it is the puprpose to emphasize the equality or comparison suggested, esp. in negative assertions, and questions implying a negative answer. By Shakespeare and others so . . . as was much used where as . . . as is now common. See the Note under As, 1. So do, as thou hast said. --Gen. xviii. 5. As a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. --Ps. ciii. 15. Had woman been so strong as men. --Shak. No country suffered so much as England. --Macaulay. So far, to that point or extent; in that particular. ``The song was moral, and so far was right.' --Cowper. So far forth, as far; to such a degree. --Shak. --Bacon. So forth, further in the same or similar manner; more of the same or a similar kind. See And so forth, under And. So, so, well, well. ``So, so, it works; now, mistress, sit you fast.' --Dryden. Also, moderately or tolerably well; passably; as, he succeeded but so so. ``His leg is but so so.' --Shak. So that, to the end that; in order that; with the effect or result that. So then, thus then it is; therefore; the consequence is.
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As As, n. [See Ace.] An ace. [Obs.] --Chaucer. Ambes-as, double aces.
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As As, n.; pl. Asses. [L. as. See Ace.] 1. A Roman weight, answering to the libra or pound, equal to nearly eleven ounces Troy weight. It was divided into twelve ounces. 2. A Roman copper coin, originally of a pound weight (12 oz.); but reduced, after the first Punic war, to two ounces; in the second Punic war, to one ounce; and afterwards to half an ounce.

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