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Definition of Sours

1. n. Source. See Source.

Definition of Sours

1. Noun. (plural of sour) ¹

2. Verb. (third-person singular of sour) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sours

1. sour [v] - See also: sour

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sours

Literary usage of Sours

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

1. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"The captious turn of an habitual wrangler deadens the understanding, sours the temper, and hardens the heart. Seattle, 7o WRAP. -va preterit and part, pass, ..."

2. Agriculture for Beginners by Charles William Burkett, Frank Lincoln Stevens, Daniel Harvey Hill (1914)
"HOW MILK sours On another page you have been told how the yeast plant grows ... In the first place, milk sours because bacteria from the air fall into the ..."

3. A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1882)
"(F.-L.) ME sours.-OF serse, surse (F. source), a source. Here sorse is fern, of sors, old pp. of OF sordre (F. sourdre), to rise. ..."

4. Agriculture for Beginners by Charles William Burkett, Frank Lincoln Stevens, Daniel Harvey Hill (1904)
"SECTION XLIX — HOW MILK sours On another page I have told you how the yeast plant grows in cider and causes it to sour, and how bacteria sometimes cause ..."

5. Agriculture for Beginners by Charles William Burkett, Frank Lincoln Stevens, Daniel Harvey Hill (1903)
"place, milk sours because bacteria from the air fall into the milk, begin to grow, and very shortly change the sugar of the milk to an acid. ..."

6. Agriculture for Beginners by Charles William Burkett, Frank Lincoln Stevens, Daniel Harvey Hill (1903)
"SECTION XLIX—HOW MILK sours On another page I have told you how the yeast plant grows in cider and causes it to sour, and how bacteria sometimes cause ..."

7. Agriculture for Beginners by Charles William Burkett, Frank Lincoln Stevens, Daniel Harvey Hill (1904)
"SECTION XLIX —HOW MILK sours On another page I have told you how the yeast plant grows in cider and causes it to sour, and how bacteria sometimes cause ..."

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