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Sour

adjective

(compar. sourer; superl. sourest)

1.

Smelling of fermentation or staleness. Synonym: rancid.

2.

Having a sharp biting taste.

3.

One of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons.

4.

In an unpalatable state. Synonyms: off, turned.

5.

Inaccurate in pitch. Synonyms: false, off-key. "Her singing was off key"

6.

Showing a brooding ill humor. Synonyms: dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sullen. "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" , "A sour temper" , "A sullen crowd"

verb

(past & past part. soured; pres. part. souring)

1.

Go sour or spoil. Synonyms: ferment, turn, work. "The wine worked" , "The cream has turned--we have to throw it out"

2.

Make sour or more sour. Synonyms: acetify, acidify, acidulate.

noun

1.

A cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar.

2.

The taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth. Synonyms: sourness, tartness.

3.

The property of being acidic. Synonyms: acidity, sourness.

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... a man called Jeff Davis. I know they sung and said, 'We'll hand old Jeff Davis to the sour apple tree.' ...

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... from the Hare family. He cuts them when they are ready for cutting and spreads them out on the rocks to dry in the sun. He knows that if he should take them down into his barns while they are fresh and green they would sour and spoil; so he never stores them away until they are thoroughly dry. Then, of course, they are hay, for hay is nothing but sun-dried grass cut before it has begun to die. When his hay is just as dry as it should be, he takes it down and stores it away in his barns, which are nothing but ...

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... Only the tales of the first four days are complete, and on folio 259 begins a long poem called Les Prisons, the work probably of William Filandrier, whom Queen Margaret protected. On the first folio of the volume is the inscription, in sixteenth-century handwriting: Pour ma sour Marie Philander. The poem Les Prisons is quoted on pp. xxxviii.-ix. vol. i. of the present work. It concludes with an ...

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... own image. The cheerful man who indulges in pleasures and dissipation, can not imagine God to be an austere and rebukeful being; he requires a facile God with whom he can make an agreement. The severe, sour, bilious man wants a God like himself; one who inspires fear; and regards as perverse those that accept only a God who is yielding and easily won over. Heresies, quarrels, and schisms are necessary. Can men differently organized and modified by diverse circumstances, ...

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