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sourness

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Sheet with 4 depictions of street vendors: a fruit vendor, an umbrella vendor, a sour product vendor and a milkmaid. Above each image a title, below each image an eight line verse. Numbered top right: No. 111.
Sheet with 4 depictions of street vendors: a fruit vendor, an umbrella vendor, a sour product vendor and a milkmaid. Above each image a title, below each image an eight line verse. Numbered top right: No. 111.
  1. (n) sourness
    a sullen moody resentful disposition
  2. (n) sourness
    the property of being acidic
  3. (n) sourness
    the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth
Illustrations
Sour cherry (Prunus cerasus) and wild daffodil (Narcissus pseudonarcissus), numbered 37 and 38.
Sour cherry (Prunus cerasus) and wild daffodil (Narcissus pseudonarcissus), numbered 37 and 38.
Bolderik and sour cherry. With some ornamental plants and tendrils. Figs. 41 and 42 on a sheet hand numbered 22. In: Anselmi Boëtii de Boot IC Brugensis & Rodolphi II. Imp. Novel. medici a cubiculis Florum, Herbarum, ac fructuum selectiorum icones, & vires pleraeque hactenus ignotæ. Part of the album with sheets and plates from De Boodt's herbarium of 1640. The twelfth of twelve albums with watercolors of animals, birds and plants known around 1600, commissioned by Emperor Rudolf II.
Bolderik and sour cherry. With some ornamental plants and tendrils. Figs. 41 and 42 on a sheet hand numbered 22. In: Anselmi Boëtii de Boot IC Brugensis & Rodolphi II. Imp. Novel. medici a cubiculis Florum, Herbarum, ac fructuum selectiorum icones, & vires pleraeque hactenus ignotæ. Part of the album with sheets and plates from De Boodt's herbarium of 1640. The twelfth of twelve albums with watercolors of animals, birds and plants known around 1600, commissioned by Emperor Rudolf II.
Bolderik (Agrostemma githago) and sour cherry (Prunus cerasus), numbered 104 and 105.
Bolderik (Agrostemma githago) and sour cherry (Prunus cerasus), numbered 104 and 105.
Christ is put on the cross. In the foreground, a man is pouring sour wine into a bowl to soak a sponge. Mary watches, supported by Johannes. Print is part of a book.
Christ is put on the cross. In the foreground, a man is pouring sour wine into a bowl to soak a sponge. Mary watches, supported by Johannes. Print is part of a book.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Sourness
    The quality or state of being sour.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) sourness
    The state or quality of being sour, in any sense. Synonyms Asperity, Tartness, etc. (see acrimony), moroseness, peevishness, petulance, ill nature.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (ns) Sourness
    the state of being sour: acidity: peevishness: discontent
Quotations
Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labor in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.
Frederic Raphael
William Shakespeare
The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes.
William Shakespeare
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Samuel Goldwyn
You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
Samuel Goldwyn
Pearl Bailey
There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.
Pearl Bailey
Idioms

Sour grapes - When someone says something critical or negative because they are jealous, it is a case of sour grapes.

Etymology

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary A.S. súr; Ger. sauer, Ice. súrr.

Usage in the news

De Niro holds his own in father-son tale, but screen spawn sours story. observer.com

Dano's off-screen stare was as sour as his on-screen presence. observer.com

Pastry for one-crust pie 3 egg yolks 1 c. Thick sour cream 1 c. Brown sugar 1/8 tsp. dairylandpeach.com

But this experience can quickly turn sour without a good lighting setup. dirtrider.com

Not unlike spaghetti and meatballs, tacos or sweet-and-sour pork, the ubiquitous California roll really is a gateway food. riverfronttimes.com

Jean-Georges Vongerichten keeps things interesting by swapping the limes for tart kumquats and kalamansi concentrate, the frozen juice of the sour Asian citrus fruit. foodandwine.com

Amy's Light & Lean Sweet & Sour Asian Noodle Bowl. goodhousekeeping.com

Léger was promised "unconditional support," but the relationship soured when BCBG cut the budget and Léger refused to cooperate. nymag.com

Steve Ballmer Sours on Apple Product. online.wsj.com

I finished reading " Mainstay Unraveled" (Dec. 8) with a sour taste in my mouth. northcoastjournal.com

1/3 cup sour cream or plain yogurt, at room temperature. pellachronicle.com

Denbury won't use state site for sour gas plant. subletteexaminer.com

Sauerbeck leaves sour taste after pitiful outing. boston.com

It's Bea who really bears the brunt of the exercise, as the sweet and sour explosion knocks her to the ground. z94.com

The report said the arrest will likely drop from Baltzer's record in a year, but that Baltzer may have soured on the Big Apple. foxnews.com

Usage in scientific papers

The sour ces with highest tangential velocity occur towards the the Galactic Centre direction and it is therefore in this direction that GLAST or VERITAS may find it easiest to detect them unambiguously.
Simple Models for the Distribution of Dark Matter

Han, “The reliability functions of the general sour ce with fixed-length coding,” T.S.
An Information-Spectrum Approach to Classical and Quantum Hypothesis Testing for Simple Hypotheses

Ihara, “The error exponent and minimum achievable rates for the fixed-length coding of general sour ces,” IEICE Trans.
An Information-Spectrum Approach to Classical and Quantum Hypothesis Testing for Simple Hypotheses

Our efforts focus on modeling experiments performed using the Omega laser facility at the University of Rochester (Soures et al. 1996; Boehly 1995; Bradley 1998) that involve shock propagation through a multi-layer target.
On Validating an Astrophysical Simulation Code

The primary targets are young supernova remnants and binary X-ray soures.
X-ray astronomy in the new Millenium. A Summary

Usage in literature

Fuselli had pushed himself in behind a big hogshead that had a pleasant tang of old wood damp with sour wine. "Three Soldiers" by John Dos Passos

Before serving, it may be thinned by beating either sweet or sour cream into it. "Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 4" by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences

Green fruits contain less sugar than do ripe ones, and so they are more sour to the taste. "Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 5" by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences

Then pour over all 1/2 pint of sour cream. "365 Foreign Dishes" by Unknown

At two in the morning Sour-dough Saunders knocked them up. "The Magnetic North" by Elizabeth Robins (C. E. Raimond)

Why, thy wits are like beer, and do froth up most when they grow sour! "The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood" by Howard Pyle

He infects all society, as thunder sours wine: war or peace, dearth or plenty, makes him equally discontented. "Character Writings of the 17th Century" by Various

It was as sour as vinegar. "The Dog Crusoe and His Master" by Robert Michael Ballantyne

Of course the milk was sweet, instead of sour, for men do not usually like sour milk. "Squinty the Comical Pig" by Richard Barnum

All the sour smells that rose from an unclean bilge eddied about them. "Big Timber" by Bertrand W. Sinclair

Usage in poetry
The winter wind is not so cold
As the bright smile he sees me win,
Nor the host's oldest wine so old
As our poor gabble, sour and thin.
"Why should folk be glum," said Keezar,
"When Nature herself is glad,
And the painted woods are laughing
At the faces so sour and sad?"
The Baron return'd in three days' space,
And his looks were sad and sour;
And weary was his courser's pace,
As he reach'd his rocky tower.
'Twas djust before my dinner hour —
Well, let the djuicy djoint go sour!
Djoyful I read. I djust must see
What this strange djolan word may be!
"He'll no distress ye: as quaiet's a cat
He grips ye, and a'thing's ower;
There's naething mair 'at ye wad be at,
There's never a sweet nor sour!
The lamp of my soul dyes your feet,
the sour wine is sweeter on your lips,
oh reaper of my evening song,
how solitary dreams believe you to be mine!