Having an acid or sharp, biting taste, like vinegar, and the juices of most unripe fruits; acid; tart.
Changed, as by keeping, so as to be acid, rancid, or musty, turned.
Disagreeable; unpleasant; hence; cross; crabbed; peevish; morose; as, a man of a sour temper; a sour reply.
Afflictive; painful.
Cold and unproductive; as, sour land; a sour marsh.
A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.
To cause to become sour; to cause to turn from sweet to sour; as, exposure to the air sours many substances.
To make cold and unproductive, as soil.
To make unhappy, uneasy, or less agreeable.
To cause or permit to become harsh or unkindly.
To macerate, and render fit for plaster or mortar; as, to sour lime for business purposes.
To become sour; to turn from sweet to sour; as, milk soon sours in hot weather; a kind temper sometimes sours in adversity.
Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty.
Any uneasy sensation in animal bodies, from slight uneasiness to extreme distress or torture, proceeding from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; bodily distress; bodily suffering; an ache; a smart.
Specifically, the throes or travail of childbirth.
Uneasiness of mind; mental distress; disquietude; anxiety; grief; solicitude; anguish. Also called mental pain.
See Pains, labor, effort.
To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
To put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture; as, his dinner or his wound pained him; his stomach pained him.
To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve; as, a child's faults pain his parents.
