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Definition of Sours

Sours
Sours Sours, n. Source. See Source. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
Sour
Sour Sour, n. A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect. --Spenser.
Sour
Sour Sour, a. [Compar. Sourer; superl. Sourest.] [OE. sour, sur, AS. s?r; akin to D. zuur, G. sauer, OHG. s?r, Icel. s?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. All sour things, as vinegar, provoke appetite. --Bacon. 2. Changed, as by keeping, so as to be acid, rancid, or musty, turned. 3. Disagreeable; unpleasant; hence; cross; crabbed; peevish; morose; as, a man of a sour temper; a sour reply. ``A sour countenance.' --Swift. He was a scholar . . . Lofty and sour to them that loved him not, But to those men that sought him sweet as summer. --Shak. 4. Afflictive; painful. ``Sour adversity.' --Shak. 5. Cold and unproductive; as, sour land; a sour marsh. 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. Syn: Acid; sharp; tart; acetous; acetose; harsh; acrimonious; crabbed; currish; peevish.
Sour
Sour 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. They keep out melancholy from the virtuous, and hinder the hatred of vice from souring into severity. --Addison.

Meaning of Sours from wikipedia

- Sours (French pronunciation: [suʁ]) is a commune in the Eure-et-Loir department in northern France. Communes of the Eure-et-Loir department "Répertoire...
- Souring is a food preparation technique that causes a physical and chemical change in food by exposing it to an acid. This acid can be added explicitly...
- Sours, a commune in northern France Sour, Algeria Tyre, Lebanon, occasionally romanized as Sour Sun of Unclouded Righteousness, a Christian hymn Sour...
- Fruit sours is a confectionery that is normally sold in bulk. Each piece is spherical and about 15mm in diameter. They come in a variety of colors; typically...
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- sometimes emplo**** in other whiskey sours is not usually included. The oldest historical mention of a whiskey sour was published in the Wisconsin newspaper...
- A sour is a traditional family of mixed drinks. Sours belong to one of the old families of original ****tails and are described by Jerry Thomas in his...
- Morris found work elsewhere, they also spread the pisco sour recipe. Since at least 1927, pisco sours started being sold in Chile, most notably at the Club...
- Look up sour grapes in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sour Grapes may refer to: Sour grapes, an expression from "The Fox and the Grapes", one of Aesop's...
- detergent, rust and/or mineral residues clinging to fabrics. Most such sours are fluoride-based, including ammonium fluorosilicate, ammonium bifluoride...