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- adjective Obsolete spelling of
sour .
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Examples
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Trappings: or, perhaps, with the Fox, thought the Grapes sowre, because I could not reach them.
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"They misliked nothing but our mustard," an Englishman wrote of Cuttyhunk islanders in 1602, "whereat they made many a sowre face."
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The churnmilke which remaineth of the butter, they let alone till it be as sowre as possibly it may be, then they boile it and in boiling, it is turned all into curdes, which curds they drie in the sun, making them as hard as the drosse of iron: and this kind of food also they store vp in sachels against winter.
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Neither did they allow vs any foode but cowes milke onely which was very sowre and filthy.
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In the winter season when milke faileth them, they put the foresaid curds (which they cal Gry-vt) into a bladder, and powring hot water thereinto, they beat it lustily till they haue resolued it into the said water, which is thereby made exceedingly sowre, and that they drinke in stead of milke9.
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Violenta, met with as sowre a sauce in the farewell.
The Decameron 2004
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Neither did they allow vs any foode but cowes milke onely which was very sowre and filthy.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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In the winter season when milke faileth them, they put the foresaid curds (which they cal Gry-vt) into a bladder, and powring hot water thereinto, they beat it lustily till they haue resolued it into the said water, which is thereby made exceedingly sowre, and that they drinke in stead of milke147.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The churnmilke which remaineth of the butter, they let alone till it be as sowre as possibly it may be, then they boile it and in boiling, it is turned all into curdes, which curds they drie in the sun, making them as hard as the drosse of iron: and this kind of food also they store vp in sachels against winter.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Whereupon the Salomon being a hot shippe, and hauing sundry cast pieces in her, gaue the first shotte in such a sowre sort, as that it shared away so many men as sate on the one side of a Gallie, and pierced her through in such maner, as that she was readie to sinke, which made them to assault vs the more fiercely.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
madmouth commented on the word sowre
var. of sour
August 19, 2010