Sour

sowr, adj. having a pungent, acid taste: turned, as milk: rancid: crabbed or peevish in temper: bitter: cold and wet, as soil.— v.t. to make sour or acid: to make cro , peevish, or discontented.— v.i. to become sour or acid: to become peevish or crabbed.— n. Sour′-crout (see Sauer-kraut ).— adj. Sour′-eyed , morose-looking.— ns. Sour′-gourd , the cream-of-tartar tree; Sour′ing , vinegar: the crab-apple: the proce in bleaching fabrics that follows the treatment with bleaching-powder, consisting in treatment of the fabric with hydrochloric or sulphuric acid, so as to wash out the lime.— adj. Sour′ish , somewhat sour.— adv. Sour′ly , in a sour manner: with acidity: with acrimony: discontentedly.— ns. Sour′ne , the state of being sour: acidity: peevishne : discontent; Sour′-sop , a tree of tropical America and its fruit, closely allied to the custard-apple: ( prov. ) an ill-natured person. [A.S. súr ; Ger. sauer , Ice. súrr .]