To sour your happiness I must report, The queen is dead.
Shak.
4. To cause or permit to become harsh or unkindly. "Souring his
cheeks." 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.
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.
Source (?), n. [OE. sours, OF. sourse, surse, sorse, F. source, fr. OF.
sors, p. p. of OF. sordre, surdre, sourdre, to spring forth or up, F.
sourdre, fr. L. surgere to lift or raise up, to spring up. See Surge,
and cf. Souse to plunge or swoop as a bird upon its prey.] 1. The act
of rising; a rise; an ascent. [Obs.]
Therefore right as an hawk upon a sours Up springeth into the air,
right so prayers . . . Maken their sours to Goddes ears two.
Chaucer.
2. The rising from the ground, or beginning, of a stream of water or
the like; a spring; a fountain.
Where as the Poo out of a welle small Taketh his firste springing
and his sours.
Chaucer.
Kings that rule Behind the hidden sources of the Nile.
Addison.
3. That from which anything comes forth, regarded as its cause or
origin; the person from whom anything originates; first cause.
This source of ideas every man has wholly in himself.
Locke.
The source of Newton's light, of Bacon's sense.
Pope.
Syn. -- See Origin.
Sour"crout` (?), n. See Sauerkraut.
Sourde (?), v. i. [F. sourdre. See Source.] To have origin or source;
to rise; to spring. [Obs.]
Now might men ask whereof that pride sourdeth.
Chaucer.
Sour"ing (?), n. (Bot.) Any sour apple.
Sour"ish, a. Somewhat sour; moderately acid; as, sourish fruit; a
sourish taste.
Sour"krout` (?), n. Same as Sauerkraut.
Sour"ly, adv. In a sour manner; with sourness.
Sour"ness, n. The quality or state of being sour.
Sours (?), n. Source. See Source. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Sour"sop` (?), n. (Bot.) The large succulent and slightly acid fruit of
a small tree (Anona muricata) of the West Indies; also, the tree
itself. It is closely allied to the custard apple.
Sour"wood` (?), n. (Bot.) The sorrel tree.
{ Sous, Souse } (F. s; colloq. Eng. sous), n. A corrupt form of Sou.
[Obs.] Colman, the Elder.
Souse (?), n. [OF. sausse. See Sauce.] [Written also souce, sowce, and
sowse.] 1. Pickle made with salt.
2. Something kept or steeped in pickle; esp., the pickled ears, feet,
etc., of swine.
And he that can rear up a pig in his house, Hath cheaper his bacon,
and sweeter his souse.
Tusser.