Definition of sour

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

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Aigre :: Aigre (a.) Sour.
Turn :: Turn (v. i.) To become acid; to sour; -- said of milk, ale, etc..
Surly :: Surly (a.) Gloomily morose; ill-natured, abrupt, and rude; severe; sour; crabbed; rough; sullen; gloomy; as, a surly groom; a surly dog; surly language; a surly look..
Blue :: Blue (superl.) Severe or over strict in morals; gloom; as, blue and sour religionists; suiting one who is over strict in morals; inculcating an impracticable, severe, or gloomy mortality; as, blue laws..
Verjuice :: Verjuice (n.) Tartness; sourness, as of disposition..
Conglomerate :: Conglomerate (n.) That which is heaped together in a mass or conpacted from various sources; a mass formed of fragments; collection; accumulation.
Root :: Root (n.) The cause or occasion by which anything is brought about; the source.
Lopper :: Lopper (v. i.) To turn sour and coagulate from too long standing, as milk..
Acidity :: Acidity (n.) The quality of being sour; sourness; tartness; sharpness to the taste; as, the acidity of lemon juice..
Parent :: Parent (n.) That which produces; cause; source; author; begetter; as, idleness is the parent of vice..
Vinegar :: Vinegar (a.) A sour liquid used as a condiment, or as a preservative, and obtained by the spontaneous (acetous) fermentation, or by the artificial oxidation, of wine, cider, beer, or the like..
Fox :: Fox (v. i.) To turn sour; -- said of beer, etc., when it sours in fermenting..
Seminary :: Seminary (n.) Fig.: A seed bed; a source.
Seminal :: Seminal (a.) Contained in seed; holding the relation of seed, source, or first principle; holding the first place in a series of developed results or consequents; germinal; radical; primary; original; as, seminal principles of generation; seminal virtue..
Derivable :: Derivable (a.) That can be derived; obtainable by transmission; capable of being known by inference, as from premises or data; capable of being traced, as from a radical; as, income is derivable from various sources..
Spring :: Spring (v. i.) Any source of supply; especially, the source from which a stream proceeds; as issue of water from the earth; a natural fountain..
Downward :: Downward (a.) Descending from a head, origin, or source; as, a downward line of descent..
Pepperidge :: Pepperidge (n.) A North American tree (Nyssa multiflora) with very tough wood, handsome oval polished leaves, and very acid berries, -- the sour gum, or common tupelo. See Tupelo..
Upwards :: Upwards (adv.) In a direction from lower to higher; toward a higher place; in a course toward the source or origin; -- opposed to downward; as, to tend or roll upward..
Seed :: Seed (n.) That from which anything springs; first principle; original; source; as, the seeds of virtue or vice..
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