Definition of Sorel

1. n. A young buck in the third year. See the Note under Buck.

Definition of Sorel

1. Noun. (zoology) A young buck in the third year. ¹

2. Noun. A yellowish or reddish brown color; sorrel. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sorel

1. sorrel [n -S] - See also: sorrel

Medical Definition of Sorel

1. 1. A young buck in the third year. See the Note under Buck. 2. A yellowish or reddish brown colour; sorrel. Origin: A diminutive. See Sore reddish brown. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sorel

sore throats
sore winner
sored
soredia
soredial
sorediate
sorediiferous
soredium
soree
sorees
sorehead
soreheaded
soreheads
sorehon
sorehons
sorel (current term)
sorell
sorells
sorels
sorely
sorema
soremouth
soremouth virus
soremuzzle
soreness
sorenesses
sorer
sores
sorest
sorex

Literary usage of Sorel

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works of Washington Irving by Washington Irving (1862)
"General Thomas, finding it impossible to make a stand at Point Deschambault, had continued his retreat to the mouth of the sorel, where he found General ..."

2. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1907)
"Albert sorel was born at Honfleur in 1842, and had not completed his sixth-fourth ... Only a delegation was sent to Tours, in which sorel was included as ..."

3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1907)
"Albert sorel was born at Honfleur in 1842, and had not completed his sixth-fourth ... Only a delegation was sent to Tours, in which sorel was included as ..."

4. Materials of Construction by Harry E. Pulver (1922)
"Magnesia or sorel Cement.—This cement is magnesium oxide, MgO, which, when mixed with a ... This is often called sorel stone after M. sorel, a Frenchman, ..."

5. History of the Campaign for the Conquest of Canada in 1776: From the Death by Charles Henry Jones (1882)
"... determines to continue the Retreat to sorel—A Skirmish below Deschambault— Mr. Acklam Bonfield—The retreating Americans reach the mouth of the sorel—Dr. ..."

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