sourtree, sourwood

[SORREL-TREE.) sour, v. t. & i. [SOUR, a.] A. Transitive: I. Ordinary Language: 1. To make sour, acid, or tart; to cause to have a sour taste. "The tartne of his face sours ripe grapes." -Shakesp.: Coriolanus, v. 4. sour-ing, s. [SOUR, v.] 1. Bleaching : A part of the proce in which the goods, having been previously placed in a solution of chloride of lime, are exposed to a dilute solution of sulphuric acid, which sets free the chlorine and whitens the cloth. It also neutralizes the alkalies which have been used in previous treatment of the cloth. 2. Hort .: A crab-apple. ( Prior .) sour-ish, *sowr-ish, a. [Eng. sour, a.; -ish.] Somewhat sour; rather sour or tart. sour-ly, *sower-ly, adv . [Eng.sour, a.;- ly .] 1. In a sour manner; with acidity or tartne . 2. With peevishne or acrimony; tartly, peevishly. 3. In a sullen, morose manner; bitterly, sullenly. "To this replied the stern A then i an prince, And sourly smiled." Dryden: Palamon and Arcite , ii. 303. sour'-ne , *soure-nes, *soure-ne e, s . [Eng. 2. To make harsh, cold, or unkindly. 3. To make sour, harsh, or peevish in temper; to sour; -ne .] "They lay a heavier burthen on themselves than they will be able to bear, at least without souring their temper."- Secker : Sermons , vol. ii., ser. 23. *4. To make uneasy or disagreeable; to embitter. "To sour your happine I must report The queen is dead." Shakesp.: Cymbeline, v. 5. *5. To cause to look gloomy; to cloud. "Adonis Souring his cheeks, cries Fie! no more of love!" Shakesp.: Venus and Adonis , 185. 6. To macerate as lime, and render fit for plaster or mortar. II. Bleaching : To subject to the operation of souring (q. v.). B. Intransitive: 1. To become sour or acid; to acquire a sour, tart, or pungent taste. "Used in milk it has the effect of preventing the faintest approach of souring , for at least a week, in the hottest of weather."- Sheldon : Dairy Farming , p. 314. *2. To become sour, sullen, crabbed, or peevish. "She soured To what she is; a nature never kind." Tennyson: Walking to the Mail , 53. söurçe (1), *sours, *sourse, subst . [O. Fr. sorse , "For wailed wine and meates thou had tho, Take mouled bread, pirate, and sider soure." Chaucer: Complaynte of Cri ide. 2. Crabbed, morose, sullen; harsh of temper; austere, sullen. "He hath been heavy, sour , sad." Shakesp.: Comedy of Errors, v. *3. Gloomy, dismal, sad. "Speak sweetly, though thy looks be sour ." Shakesp.: Richard II ., iii. 2. 4. Expre ive of discontent, displeasure. di atisfaction or peevishne ; peevish, cro , sharp. "The lord treasurer often looked on me with a sour countenance." -Swift . (Todd.) 1. The quality or state of being sour; tartne , acidity. "And as thou couldst not see leauen though thou brakest vp a loafe, except thou smelledst or tastedst the soure nes."- Tyndall : Works , p. 225. 2. Asperity; harshne of temper; crabbedne , sullenne , morosene . "It takes off the sourne and morosene of our spirits, and makes us affable and courteous." - Sharp : Sermons , vol. i., ser. 2. sour-ock, s. [SOUR, a.] Sorrel (1). ( Scotch.) *sours, *sourse, s. [SOURCE.] *sõus (s silent), s. [Prop. the pl. of sou (q. v.), but frequently used as a singular. A sou. "Not a sous to save me from gaol."- Arbuthnot : Hist. John Bull , xvi. 1. souse (1), *souce, *sowce, *sowse, *sow e, s. & adv. [A doublet of sauce (q. v.).] A. As substantive : 1. Pickle made with salt; sauce. 2. Anything steeped or preserved in pickle; espec., the ears, feet, ., of swine pickled. "Sending the king woord that he had prouided at his brothers manor, against his coming, good plentie of souse & powdred meat."-Holinshed: Hist. Eng ., bk. viii., ch. vii. *3. The ear, in contempt. 4. A plunging into water; a drenching with water. 5. A violent attack or falling upon, as of a bird on [SURGE.] 1. The spring or fountain-head from which a stream of water proceeds; any collection of water within or upon the surface of the earth in which a stream originates. "All rivers have their source either in mountains or elevated lakes; and it is in their descent from these that they acquire that velocity which maintains their future current."-Goldsmith: Animated Nature , vol. i., ch. xiv. 2. The spring from which anything flows. "The flouds doe gaspe, for dryed is their sourse." Spenser: Shepherd's Calendar; Nov. 3. The first cause, origin, or original; one who or that which gives rise to or originates anything. "If there is any one English word, which is now become IMG:content-1756.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1757.png:[blocks in formation] souse 3. To drench with water. "Others soused him with the contents of bucket after bucket of cold soapsuds and water."-London Daily Tele graph . *4. To pounce upon; to strike with sudden violence, as a bird strikes its prey. "The gallant monarch is in arms; And like an eagle o er his airy towers, To souse annoyance that comes near his nest." Shakesp.: King John, v. 2. *B. Intransitive : 1. To fall suddenly; to make a sudden attack. "Jove's bird will souse upon the timorous hare." Dryden: Juvenal , sat. xiv. 2. To strike; to deliver blows. "With hideous horror both together smight, And souce so sore, that they the heavens affray." Spenser: F. Q., I. v. 8. 3. To beat; to fall as a blow. "With huge great hammers, that did never rest From heaping stroakes which thereon soused sore." Spenser: F. Q., IV. v. 36.