noun.
In drenching or puering skins, the old liquor which has become sour or turned.
Having an acid taste; sharp to the taste; tart; acid; specifically, acid in consequence of fermentation; fermented, and thus spoiled: as, sour bread; sour milk.
Harsh of temper; crabbed; peevish; austere; morose: as, a man of a sour temper.
Afflictive; hard to bear; bitter; disagreeable to the feelings; distasteful in any manner.
Expressing discontent, displeasure, or peevishness: as, a sour word.
Cold; wet; harsh; unkindly to crops: said of soil.
Coarse: said of grass.
Synonyms Acetous, acetose.
2 and
Cross, testy, waspish, snarling, cynical.
noun.
Something sour or acid; something bitter or disagreeable.
noun.
Dirt; filth.
noun.
An acid punch.
noun.
In bleaching and dyeing:
noun.
A bath of buttermilk or sour milk, or of soured bran or rye-flour, used by primitive bleachers.
noun.
A weak solution of sulphuric or hydrochloric acid, used for various purposes. Compare souring, 5.
Sourly; bitterly.
To become sour; become acid; acquire the quality of tartness or pungency to the taste, as by fermentation: as, cider sours rapidly in the rays of the sun.
To become peevish, crabbed, or harsh in temper.
To become harsh, wet, cold, or unkindly to crops: said of soil.
To make sour; make acid; cause to have a sharp taste, especially by fermentation.
To make harsh, crabbed, morose, or bitter in temper; make cross or discontented; embitter; prejudice.
To make harsh, wet, cold, or unkindly to crops: said of soil.
In bleaching, etc., to treat with a dilute acid.
To macerate and render fit for plaster or mortar, as lime.