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  1. 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.
  2. noun A metallic salt of a fatty acid, as of aluminum or iron.
  3. noun Slang Money, especially that which is used for bribery.
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  • Weida and Patrick differ on whether your soap should be antibacterial or not. —  Medlogs - Recent stories
  • Karma soap is the strongest scented Lush soap that I have smelled to date. —  Epinions Recent Content for Home
  • Now the soap is available for $18.50 USD for an 8 oz bottle. —  TreeHugger
  • I love that a soap is again having a lesbian wedding (this time a legal one), but I don't really think they are right for eachother, and I think AMC may have the first gay divorce on soap in the future. —  AfterEllen.com - Because visibility matters
  • Technically speaking, however, the meaning of the term soap is considerably restricted, being generally limited to the combinations of fatty acids and alkalies, obtained by treating various animal or vegetable fatty matters, or the fatty acids derived therefrom, with soda or potash, the former giving hard soaps, the latter soft soaps The use of ammonia as an alkali for soap-making purposes has often been attempted, but owing to the ease with which the resultant soap is decomposed, it can scarcely be looked upon as a product of much commercial value H. Jackson has, however, recently patented (Eng. —  The Handbook of Soap Manufacture
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  1. Middle English sope, from Old English sāpe.

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  1. Early modern English also sope; from Middle English sope, soope, sape, from Anglo-Saxon sāpe = Middle Dutch sepe, Dutch zeep = Middle Low German sēpe, Low German sepe = Old High German seifa, seipha, seipfa, soap, Middle High German G. seife, German dial. seipfe = Icelandic sāpa = Swedish såpa = Danish sæbe (Icelandic, etc., from Anglo-Saxon), soap; cf. Latin sapo, pomade for coloring the hair (Pliny: see def. 2), Late Latin Middle Latin soap (later Greek σάπων = Italian sapone = Spanish jabon = Pg, sabão = Provencal sabo = French savon (later Turkish sabun) = Welsh sebon = Irish siabunn = Gael, siopunn, soap), prob. from Teutonic, the true L. cognate being prob. sebum, tallow, grease (see sebum, sebaceous). Cf. Finn. saippio, from Teutonic The word, if orig, Teutonic, is prob. identical with Anglo-Saxon sāp = Old High German seifa, resin, and connected with Anglo-Saxon *sīpan, sipian, Low German sipen, Middle High German sīfen, trickle, and perhaps with Anglo-Saxon sæp, etc., sap: see seep, sipe, sap.
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