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verb

Sour v. t.

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."

To make cold and unproductive, as soil.

To make unhappy, uneasy, or less agreeable. "To sour your happiness I must report, The queen is dead."

To cause or permit to become harsh or unkindly. "Souring his cheeks." "Pride had not sour'd nor wrath debased my heart."

To macerate, and render fit for plaster or mortar; as, to sour lime for business purposes.

Sour v. i. (past & past part. soured; pres. part. 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."

noun

Souring n. (Bot.) Any sour apple.

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"Souring" Quotes from Famous Books

... reproved A silent envy nursed within, 170 A selfish, souring discontent Pride-born, the ...

— Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems • Christina Rossetti

... you?" said Miss Mary. "It's just his own sorrows souring him. There's Sandy, his son, a through-other lad (though I aye liked the laddie and he's young yet), and his daughter back from her schooling in Edinburgh, educated, or polished, or finished off as they call it—I hope she kens what she's to be ...

— Gilian The Dreamer - His Fancy, His Love and Adventure • Neil Munro

... Byron, with their lameness—or Schleiermacher, with his deformed appearance,—a physical infirmity beset Alfred most of his life, and at last carried him off at a comparatively early age. This was a disease in his bowels, which had long afflicted him, 'without interrupting his designs, or souring his temper.' Nay, who can say that the constant presence of such a memento of weakness and mortality did not operate as a strong, quiet stimulus to do with his might what his hand found to do—to lower pride, and to prompt to labour? If Saladin had had for his companion some such faithful ...

— Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete • George Gilfillan

... souring of milk and of cooked food of any kind is due to the germs always present in the air and clinging by the thousands to unwashed dishes and hands. If meat or fruit is cooked and kept tightly covered, it will remain ...

— Health Lessons - Book 1 • Alvin Davison

... said Miss Mary. "It's just his own sorrows souring him. There's Sandy, his son, a through-other lad (though I aye liked the laddie and he's young yet), and his daughter back from her schooling in Edinburgh, educated, or polished, or finished off as they call it—I hope she kens what ...

— Gilian The Dreamer - His Fancy, His Love and Adventure • Neil Munro

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