Soup
(Soup), v. t. To sup or swallow. [Obs.] Wyclif.
Soup
(Soup), v. t. To breathe out. [Obs.] amden.
Soup
(Soup), v. t. To sweep. See Sweep, and Swoop. [Obs.]
Soupe-maigre
(||Soupe`-mai"gre) n. [F.] (Cookery) Soup made chiefly from vegetables or fish with a
little butter and a few condiments.
Souple
(Sou"ple) n. That part of a flail which strikes the grain. Knight.
Soupy
(Soup"y) a. Resembling soup; souplike.
Sour
(Sour) a. [Compar. Sourer ; superl. Sourest.] [OE. sour, sur, AS. sr; akin to D. zuur, G.
sauer, OHG. sr, Icel. srr, 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), n. A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect. Spenser.
Sour
(Sour), v. t. [AS. srian 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.
