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資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Sour \Sour\, n.
   A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.
   --Spenser.

Sour \Sour\, v. t. [AS. s?rian to sour, to become sour.]
   1. To cause to become sour; to cause to turn from sweet to
      sour; as, exposure to the air sours many substances.

            So the sun's heat, with different powers, Ripens the
            grape, the liquor sours.              --Swift.

   2. To make cold and unproductive, as soil. --Mortimer.

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

            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 \Sour\, a. [Compar. {Sourer}; superl. {Sourest}.] [OE.
   sour, sur, AS. s?r; akin to D. zuur, G. sauer, OHG. s?r,
   Icel. s?rr, Sw. sur, Dan. suur, Lith. suras salt, Russ.
   surovui harsh, rough. Cf. {Sorrel}, the plant.]
   1. Having an acid or sharp, biting taste, like vinegar, and
      the juices of most unripe fruits; acid; tart.

            All sour things, as vinegar, provoke appetite.
                                                  --Bacon.

   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. ``A sour
      countenance.'' --Swift.

            He was a scholar . . . Lofty and sour to them that
            loved him not, But to those men that sought him
            sweet as summer.                      --Shak.

   4. Afflictive; painful. ``Sour adversity.'' --Shak.

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

   {Sour dock} (Bot.), sorrel.

   {Sour gourd} (Bot.), the gourdlike fruit {Adansonia
      Gregorii}, and {A. digitata}; also, either of the trees
      bearing this fruit. See {Adansonia}.

   {Sour grapes}. See under {Grape}.

   {Sour gum} (Bot.) See {Turelo}.

   {Sour plum} (Bot.), the edible acid fruit of an Australian
      tree ({Owenia venosa}); also, the tree itself, which
      furnished a hard reddish wood used by wheelwrights.

   Syn: Acid; sharp; tart; acetous; acetose; harsh; acrimonious;
        crabbed; currish; peevish.

Sour \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.

資料來源 : WordNet®

sour
     adj 1: smelling of fermentation or staleness [syn: {rancid}]
     2: having a sharp biting taste [ant: {sweet}]
     3: one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of
        vinegar or lemons
     4: in an unpalatable state; "sour milk" [syn: {off}, {turned}]
     5: inaccurate in pitch; "a false (or sour) note"; "her singing
        was off key" [syn: {false}, {off-key}]
     6: showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the
        proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless
        shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and
        unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic
        young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen
        crowd" [syn: {dark}, {dour}, {glowering}, {glum}, {moody},
         {morose}, {saturnine}, {sullen}]

sour
     n 1: a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin)
          mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar
     2: the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken
        into the mouth [syn: {sourness}, {tartness}]
     3: the property of being acidic [syn: {sourness}, {acidity}]

sour
     v 1: go sour or spoil; "The milk has soured"; "The wine worked";
          "The cream has turned--we have to throw it out" [syn: {turn},
           {ferment}, {work}]
     2: make sour or more sour [syn: {acidify}, {acidulate}, {acetify}]
        [ant: {sweeten}]