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English Dictionary: sour	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for sour
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sour adj smelling of fermentation or staleness [syn: sour, rancid] having a sharp biting taste Antonym(s): sweet one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons in an unpalatable state; "sour milk" Synonym(s): off, sour, turned inaccurate in pitch; "a false (or sour) note"; "her singing was off key" Synonym(s): false, off-key, sour showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd" Synonym(s): dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen n a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth Synonym(s): sour, sourness, tartness the property of being acidic Synonym(s): sourness, sour, acidity v go sour or spoil; "The milk has soured"; "The wine worked"; "The cream has turned--we have to throw it out" Synonym(s): sour, turn, ferment, work make sour or more sour Synonym(s): sour, acidify, acidulate, acetify Antonym(s): dulcify, dulcorate, edulcorate, sweeten
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. [bd]A sour countenance.[b8] --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. [bd]Sour adversity.[b8] --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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sour \Sour\, n. A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect. --Spenser.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sour \Sour\, v. t. [AS. s[?]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. So the sun's heat, with different powers, Ripens the grape, the liquor sours. --Swift. 2. To make cold and unproductive, as soil. --Mortimer. 3. To make unhappy, uneasy, or less agreeable. To sour your happiness I must report, The queen is dead. --Shak. 4. To cause or permit to become harsh or unkindly. [bd]Souring his cheeks.[b8] --Shak. Pride had not sour'd nor wrath debased my heart. --Harte. 5. To macerate, and render fit for plaster or mortar; as, to sour lime for business purposes.