sour, soure, sower, sowre

& s. [A. S. súr; cogn. with Dan. zuur; Icel. srúr; Dan. suur; Sw.sur; O. H. Ger.súr; Ger. sauer; Wel. sur: Lith. sur us salt; Ru . surovuii =raw, coarse, harsh, rough.] [SORREL, 8.] A. As adjective : IMG:content-1755.png:[blocks in formation] souse land as one of the sources of national wealth; or of sensation and reflection, as the only sources (according to Locke) of human knowledge; propositions which it would not be easy to enunciate with equal clearne and concisene in any other manner?"- Stewart : Philosophy , p. 203. söurçe (2), s. [SOUSE (2).] *söurçe, *sourse, v . i. [SOURCE (1), subst .] To spring. "Immunities sourcing from him." - Nashe: Lenten Stuffe . *sourde, *sourd-en, v. i. [Fr. sourdre , from Lat. sur go .] [SOURCE.] Torise, to spring, to i ue; to have its source or origin. "But to all this was the towne of Gaunt repugn aunt in so moc he ye mortall warre beganne to sourde atwene yesayd and the town of Brugys and other."-Fabyan. Chronycle; Car. V. (an. 3).