Definition of sour

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Sour (n.) A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.

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Valeric :: Valeric (a.) Valerianic; specifically, designating any one of three metameric acids, of which the typical one (called also inactive valeric acid), C4H9CO2H, is obtained from valerian root and other sources, as a corrosive, mobile, oily liquid, having a strong acid taste, and an odor of old cheese..
Rugged :: Rugged (n.) Sour; surly; frowning; wrinkled; -- said of looks, etc..
Acid :: Acid (n.) One of a class of compounds, generally but not always distinguished by their sour taste, solubility in water, and reddening of vegetable blue or violet colors. They are also characterized by the power of destroying the distinctive properties of alkalies or bases, combining with them to form salts, at the same time losing their own peculiar properties. They all contain hydrogen, united with a more negative element or radical, either alone, or more generally with oxygen, and take their n
Crabbish :: Crabbish (a.) Somewhat sour or cross.
Acetosity :: Acetosity (n.) The quality of being acetous; sourness.
Mother :: Mother (n.) That which has produced or nurtured anything; source of birth or origin; generatrix.
Vinegar :: Vinegar (a.) Hence, anything sour; -- used also metaphorically..
Sweet :: Sweet (superl.) Not changed from a sound or wholesome state. Specifically: (a) Not sour; as, sweet milk or bread. (b) Not state; not putrescent or putrid; not rancid; as, sweet butter; sweet meat or fish..
Austereness :: Austereness (n.) Harshness or astringent sourness to the taste; acerbity.
Strong :: Strong (superl.) Having great wealth, means, or resources; as, a strong house, or company of merchants..
Up :: Up (adv.) From a lower to a higher position, literally or figuratively; as, from a recumbent or sitting position; from the mouth, toward the source, of a river; from a dependent or inferior condition; from concealment; from younger age; from a quiet state, or the like; -- used with verbs of motion expressed or implied..
Sourt :: Sourt (n.) A shoot; a bud.
Cryolite :: Cryolite (n.) A fluoride of sodium and aluminum, found in Greenland, in white cleavable masses; -- used as a source of soda and alumina..
Resource :: Resource (n.) That to which one resorts orr on which one depends for supply or support; means of overcoming a difficulty; resort; expedient.
Acescent :: Acescent (n.) A substance liable to become sour.
Vinegar :: Vinegar (v. t.) To convert into vinegar; to make like vinegar; to render sour or sharp.
Acerbic :: Acerbic (a.) Sour or severe.
Sour :: Sour (v. t.) To macerate, and render fit for plaster or mortar; as, to sour lime for business purposes..
Source :: Source (n.) That from which anything comes forth, regarded as its cause or origin; the person from whom anything originates; first cause..
Isonandra :: Isonandra (n.) A genus of sapotaceous trees of India. Isonandra Gutta is the principal source of gutta-percha.
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