soure.html - adj., n., & v. --adj.

1 having an acid taste like lemon or vinegar, esp. because of unripeness (sour apples).
2 a (of food, esp. milk or bread) bad because of fermentation. b smelling or tasting rancid or unpleasant.
3 (of a person, temper, etc.) harsh; morose; bitter.
4 (of a thing) unpleasant; distasteful.
5 (of the soil) deficient in lime and usually dank.

--n.

1 US a drink with lemon- or lime-juice (whisky sour).
2 an acid solution used in bleaching etc.

--v.

tr. & intr. make or become sour (soured the cream; soured by misfortune).

go (or turn) sour 1 (of food etc.) become sour.
2 turn out badly (the job went sour on him).
3 lose one's keenness. sour cream cream deliberately fermented by adding bacteria. sour grapes resentful disparagement of something one cannot personally acquire. sour mash US a brewing- or distilling-mash made acid to promote fermentation.

sourish adj. sourly adv. sourness n. [OE sur f. Gmc]

soure.html - n. & v.
--n.

1 a spring or fountain-head from which a stream issues (the sources of the Nile).
2 a place, person, or thing from which something originates (the source of all our troubles).
3 a person or document etc. providing evidence (reliable sources of information; historical source material).
4 a a body emitting radiation etc. b Physics a place from which a fluid or current flows. c Electronics a part of a transistor from which carriers flow into the interelectrode channel.

--v.

tr. obtain (esp. components) from a specified source.

at source at the point of origin or issue. source-criticism the evaluation of different, esp. successive, literary or historical sources. [ME f. OF sors, sourse, past part. of sourdre rise f. L surgere]

soure.html - n.
a collection of documentary sources for the study of a subject.

soure.html - n.
US 1 fermenting dough, esp. that left over from a previous baking, used as leaven.
2 an old-timer in Alaska etc. [dial., = leaven, in allusion to piece of sour dough for raising bread baked in winter]

soure.html - n.
colloq. a sour-tempered person. [SOUR + PUSS = face]

soure.html - n.
1 a W. Indian evergreen tree, Annona muricata.
2 the large succulent fruit of this tree.