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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Sore

Sōre, n.

noun

n. [Scot. sair, sare, A-S. & Icel. sâr, Goth. sair, Sw. sâr, Dan. saar, O. Sax., O. Fries., & O. H. Ger. sêr, D. zeer.] 1. A place in an animal body where the skin and flesh are ruptured or bruised, so as to be tender or painful. The glutton's dogs licked his sores. Shak.

  1. An ulcer, a boil.
  2. Hence, grief; affliction; trouble; difficulty.

I see plainly where his sore lies. W. Scott.

Sōre, a.

adjective

a. [compar. SORER; superl. SOREST.] [A-S. & Icel. sâr, Sw. sår, O. Sax. & O. H. Ger. sēr, D. zeer. See supra.]

  1. Tender and susceptible of pain from pressure; inflamed; painful.
  2. Tender, as the mind; easily pained, grieved, or vexed; very susceptible of irritation.

Malice and hatred are very fretting, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy. Tillotson.

  1. Violent with pain; severe; afflictive; distressing; as, a sore disease; sore evil or calamity.
  2. Criminal; evil. [Obs.] Shak.

Sōre, adv.

adverb

adv. [A-S. sāre, O. Sax. & O. H. Ger. sēro, O. Fries. sēre, sēr, N. H. Ger. sehr.]

Sense 1. In a sore manner; with pain; grievously.

Thy hand presseth me sore. Com. Prayer.

Sense 2. Greatly; violently; deeply.

Sore sighed the knight, who this long sermon heard. Dryden.

Sōre, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [A-S. sârian, sârgian, sârigian, O. Sax. sêrian, O. Fries. sêria, O. H. Ger. sêron, M. H. Ger. sêren, N. H. Ger. ver-sehren.] To make sore; to wound. [Obs.] “As it had not been sored.” Spenser.

Sōre, n.

noun

n. [Fr. saure, sore, sor, Pr. saur, It. sauro, soro, sorrel, reddish; Fr. sor, faucon sor, a falcon of one year.]

  1. A hawk of the first year. Spenser.
  2. A buck of the fourth year. Shak.