Castile soap

·- A kind of fine, hard, white or mottled soap, made with olive oil and soda; also, a soap made in imitation of the above-described soap.

Soap
·vt To rub or wash over with soap. II. Soap ·vt To <<Flatter>>; to <<Wheedle>>. III. Soap ·noun A ...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Soap
(Jer. 2:22; Mal. 3:2; Heb. borith), properly a vegetable alkali, obtained from the ashes of certain ...

Easton's Bible Dictionary
Soap
The Hebrew term borith is a general term for any substance of cleansing qualities. As, however, it a...

William Smith's Bible Dictionary
Fuller's soap
(Heb. borith mekabbeshim, i.e., "alkali of those treading cloth"). Mention is made (Prov. 25:20; Jer...

Easton's Bible Dictionary
soap-lock
A lock of hair made to lie smooth by soaping it. Hence also a name given to a low set of fellows who...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
soft soap
Flattery; blarney. A vulgar phrase, though much used. to soft soap To flatter; to blarney. I am t...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.