Soap that is liquid or semi-liquid and dissolves readily, usually made from the potassium salts of fatty acids.

= wash-ball, n.

A spherical or rounded mass. A spherical piece of soap. Cf. soap-ball n. at soap, n.1 compounds 2c(a), washing-ball n. at washing, n. compounds 1b…

A flat cake of soap. Cf. soap-tablet n. at soap, n.1 compounds 2a(a).

A ball of soap scented with musk. Obsolete.

soap in liquid form.

a piece of soap formed as a ball, now esp. by the admixture of starch.

A ball of soap (sometimes perfumed or medicated) used for washing the hands and face, and for shaving.

A ball of perfumed soap containing a powder which creates a thick lather when dissolved in water.

Soap that is manufactured in a rectangular brick-like block; a bar of this.

soap made up into bars as distinguished from soap in cakes or tablets; also attributive.

A narrow four-sided block of metal or material as manufactured, e.g. of iron, or soap, chocolate, etc.; an ingot of precious metal. Cf. bar-iron n.…

a kind of toilet soap (see quot. 1884).

(see quot. 1887 soap extract n.); also loosely, detergent in the form of a powder.

spec. A thin sheet of soap or other detergent.

a leaf of soap (see leaf, n.1 6b).

plural soap in the form of thin flakes for washing clothes, etc.

a gel used for cleaning oneself in the shower.