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Sour [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Acid; having a pungent taste; sharp to the taste; tart; as, vinegar is sour; sour cider; sour beer.

2. Acid and austere or astringent; as, sunripe fruits are often sour

3. Harsh of temper; crabbed; peevish; austere; morose; as a man of a sour temper.

4. Afflictive; as sour adversities. [Not in use.]

5. Expressing discontent or peevishness. He never uttered a sour word. The lord treasurer often looked on me with a sour countenance.

6. Harsh to the feelings; cold and damp; as sour weather.

7. Rancid; musty.

8. Turned, as milk; coagulated.

Sour [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

An acid substance.

Sour [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To become acid; to acquire the quality of tartness or pungency to the taste. Cider sours rapidly in the rays of the sun. When food sours in the stomach, it is evidence of imperfect digestion.

2. TO become peevish or crabbed. They hinder the hatred of vice from souring into severity.

Sour [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To make acid; to cause to have a sharp taste. So the sun's heat, with different pow'rs, ripens the grape, the liquor sours.

2. To make harsh, cold or unkindly. Tufts of grass sour land.

3. To make harsh in temper; to make cross, crabbed, peevish or discontented. Misfortunes often sour'd, nor wrath debas'd my heart.

4. To make uneasy or less agreeable. Hail, great king! To sour your happiness I must report the queen is dead.

5. In rural economy, to macerate, as lime, and render fir for plaster or mortar.

Sour [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.

Sour [Superlative] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Having an acid or sharp, biting taste, like vinegar, and the juices of most unripe fruits; acid; tart.

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.

4. Afflictive; painful.

5. Cold and unproductive; as, sour land; a sour marsh.

Sour [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To become sour; to turn from sweet to sour; as, milk soon sours in hot weather; a kind temper sometimes sours in adversity.

Sour [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To cause to become sour; to cause to turn from sweet to sour; as, exposure to the air sours many substances.

2. To make cold and unproductive, as soil.

3. To make unhappy, uneasy, or less agreeable.

4. To cause or permit to become harsh or unkindly.

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

Source [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Properly, the spring or fountain from which a stream of water proceeds, or any collection of water within the earth or upon its surface, in which a stream originates. This is called also the head of the stream. We call the water of a spring, where it issues from the earth, the source of the stream or rivulet proceeding form it. We say also that springs have their sources in subterranean ponds, lakes or collections of water. We say also that a large river has is source in a lake. For example, the St. Lawrence has its source in the great lakes of America.

2. First cause; original; that which gives rise to any thing. Thus ambition, the love of power and of fame, have been the sources of half the calamities of nations. Intemperance is the source of innumerable evils to individuals.

3. The first producer; he or that which originates; as Greece the source of arts.

Source [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of rising; a rise; an ascent.

2. The rising from the ground, or beginning, of a stream of water or the like; a spring; a fountain.

3. That from which anything comes forth, regarded as its cause or origin; the person from whom anything originates; first cause.

Sourcrout [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

See Sauerkraut.

Sourde [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To have origin or source; to rise; to spring.

Sourdet [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The little pipe of a trumpet.

2. Sorrel, so called.

Soured [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A plant of the genus Adansonia.

Soured [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Made sour; made peevish.

Soured [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Sour

Souring [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

That which makes acid.

Souring [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Making acid; becoming sour; making peevish.

Souring [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Any sour apple.

Souring [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Sour

Sourish [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Somewhat sour; moderately acid; as sourish fruit; a sourish taste.

Sourish [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Somewhat sour; moderately acid; as, sourish fruit; a sourish taste.

Sourkrout [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Same as Sauerkraut.

Sourly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. With acidity.

2. With peevishness; with acrimony. The stern Athenian prince the sourly smil'd.

3. Discontentedly.

Sourly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

In a sour manner; with sourness.

Sourness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Acidity; sharpness to the taste; tartness; as the sourness of vinegar or of fruit. sourness being one of those simple ideas which one cannot describe.

2. Asperity; harshness of temper. Take care that no sourness and moroseness mingle with our seriousness of mind.

3. A plant, the annona muricata. The custard apple.

Sourness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The quality or state of being sour.

Sours [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Source. See Source.

Soursop [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

Sourt [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A sudden or violent ejection or gushing of a liquid, as of water from a tube, orifice, or other confined place, or of blood from a wound; a jet; a spirt.

2. A shoot; a bud.

3. Fig.: A sudden outbreak; as, a spurt of jealousy.

Sourwood [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The sorrel tree.

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Leviticus 20:18

And if a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness, and shall uncover her nakedness; he hath discovered her fountain, and she hath uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be cut off from among their people.

If a man lies with a menstruating woman and has sexual relations with her, he has exposed the source of her flow, and she has uncovered the source of her blood. Both of them must be cut off from among their people.

Judges 16:5

And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lieth, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him: and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver.

The lords of the Philistines went to her and said, “Entice him and find out the source of his great strength and how we can overpower him to tie him up and subdue him. Then each one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels of silver.”

Judges 16:6

And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee.

So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me the source of your great strength and how you can be tied up and subdued.”

Judges 16:9

Now there were men lying in wait, abiding with her in the chamber. And she said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he brake the withs, as a thread of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire. So his strength was not known.

While the men were hidden in her room, she called out, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” But he snapped the bowstrings like a strand of yarn seared by a flame. So the source of his strength remained unknown.

Judges 16:15

And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thine heart is not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth.

“How can you say, ‘I love you,’” she asked, “when your heart is not with me? This is the third time you have mocked me and failed to reveal to me the source of your great strength!”

Job 20:14

Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.

yet in his stomach his food sours into the venom of cobras within him.

Job 28:6

The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.

Its rocks are the source of sapphires, containing flecks of gold.

Job 28:11

He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.

He stops up the sources of the streams to bring what is hidden to light.

Isaiah 5:2

And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.

He dug it up and cleared the stones and planted the finest vines. He built a watchtower in the middle and dug out a winepress as well. He waited for the vineyard to yield good grapes, but the fruit it produced was sour!

Isaiah 5:4

What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?

What more could I have done for My vineyard than I already did for it? Why, when I expected sweet grapes, did it bring forth sour fruit?

Isaiah 18:5

For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruninghooks, and take away and cut down the branches.

For before the harvest, when the blossom is gone and the flower becomes a ripening grape, He will cut off the shoots with a pruning knife and remove and discard the branches.

Isaiah 20:6

And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day, Behold, such is our expectation, whither we flee for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we escape?

And on that day the dwellers of this coastland will say, ‘See what has happened to our source of hope, those to whom we fled for help and deliverance from the king of Assyria! How then can we escape?’”

Jeremiah 31:29

In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.

“In those days, it will no longer be said: ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge.’

Jeremiah 31:30

But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.

Instead, each will die for his own iniquity. If anyone eats the sour grapes, his own teeth will be set on edge.

Ezekiel 18:2

What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge?

“What do you people mean by quoting this proverb about the land of Israel: ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge’?

Hosea 4:18

Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers with shame do love, Give ye.

When their liquor is gone, they turn to prostitution; their rulers dearly love disgrace.

Matthew 21:25

The baptism of John, whence was it? from heaven, or of men? And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say unto us, Why did ye not then believe him?

What was the source of John’s baptism? Was it from heaven or from men?” They deliberated among themselves and said, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ He will ask, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’

Matthew 27:48

And straightway one of them ran, and took a spunge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink.

One of them quickly ran and brought a sponge. He filled it with sour wine, put it on a reed, and held it up for Jesus to drink.

Mark 15:36

And one ran and filled a spunge full of vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink, saying, Let alone; let us see whether Elias will come to take him down.

And someone ran and filled a sponge with sour wine. He put it on a reed and held it up for Jesus to drink, saying, “Leave Him alone. Let us see if Elijah comes to take Him down.”

Luke 23:36

And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him, and offering him vinegar,

The soldiers also mocked Him and came up to offer Him sour wine.