SOUR
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Sour (?), a. [Compar. Sourer (?); superl. Sourest.] [OE. sour, sur, AS. s&unr_;r; akin to D. zuur, G. sauer, OHG. s&unr_;r, Icel. s&unr_;rr, Sw. sur, Dan. suur, Lith. suras salt, Russ. surovui harsh, rough. Cf. Sorrel, the plant.] 1. Having an acid or sharp, biting taste, like vinegar, and the juices of most unripe fruits; acid; tart.
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All sour things, as vinegar, provoke appetite.
Bacon.
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2. Changed, as by keeping, so as to be acid, rancid, or musty, turned.
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3. Disagreeable; unpleasant; hence; cross; crabbed; peevish; morose; as, a man of a sour temper; a sour reply. “A sour countenance.” Swift.
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He was a scholar . . .
Lofty and sour to them that loved him not,
But to those men that sought him sweet as summer.
Shak.
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4. Afflictive; painful. “Sour adversity.” Shak.
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5. Cold and unproductive; as, sour land; a sour marsh.
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Sour dock (Bot.), sorrel. -- Sour gourd (Bot.), the gourdlike fruit Adansonia Gregorii, and A. digitata; also, either of the trees bearing this fruit. See Adansonia. -- Sour grapes. See under Grape. -- Sour gum (Bot.) See Turelo. -- Sour plum (Bot.), the edible acid fruit of an Australian tree (Owenia venosa); also, the tree itself, which furnished a hard reddish wood used by wheelwrights.
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Syn. -- Acid; sharp; tart; acetous; acetose; harsh; acrimonious; crabbed; currish; peevish.
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Sour, n. A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect. Spenser.
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Sour, v. t. [AS. s&unr_;rian to sour, to become sour.] 1. To cause to become sour; to cause to turn from sweet to sour; as, exposure to the air sours many substances.
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So the sun's heat, with different powers,
Ripens the grape, the liquor sours.
Swift.
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2. To make cold and unproductive, as soil. Mortimer.
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3. To make unhappy, uneasy, or less agreeable.
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To sour your happiness I must report,
The queen is dead.
Shak.
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4. To cause or permit to become harsh or unkindly. “Souring his cheeks.” Shak.
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Pride had not sour'd nor wrath debased my heart.
Harte.
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5. To macerate, and render fit for plaster or mortar; as, to sour lime for business purposes.
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Sour, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Soured (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Souring.] To become sour; to turn from sweet to sour; as, milk soon sours in hot weather; a kind temper sometimes sours in adversity.
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They keep out melancholy from the virtuous, and hinder the hatred of vice from souring into severity.
Addison.
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