'Sourer' definitions:
Definition of 'Sourer'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- All sour things, as vinegar, provoke appetite. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Changed, as by keeping, so as to be acid, rancid, or musty, turned. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Disagreeable; unpleasant; hence; cross; crabbed; peevish; morose; as, a man of a sour temper; a sour reply. "A sour countenance." --Swift. [1913 Webster]
- He was a scholar . . . Lofty and sour to them that loved him not, But to those men that sought him sweet as summer. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Afflictive; painful. "Sour adversity." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Cold and unproductive; as, sour land; a sour marsh. [1913 Webster]
- Sour dock (Bot.), sorrel.
- Sour gourd (Bot.), the gourdlike fruit {Adansonia Gregorii}, and Adansonia 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. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Acid; sharp; tart; acetous; acetose; harsh; acrimonious; crabbed; currish; peevish. [1913 Webster]