Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SOUR'GOURD, n.

A plant of the genus Adansonia.

SOUR'ING, n.

That which makes acid.

SOUR'ING, ppr.

Making acid; becoming sour; making peevish.

SOUR'ISH, a.

Somewhat sour; moderately acid; as, sourish fruit; a sourish taste.

SOUR'LY, adv.

1. With acidity.
2. With peevishness; with acrimony. The stera Athenian prince / Then sourly smil'd. – Dryden.
3. Discontentedly. – Brown.

SOUR'NESS, n.

1. Acidity; sharpness to the taste; tartness; as, the sourness of vinegar or of fruit. Sourness being one of those simple ideas which one can not, describe. – Arbuthnot.
2. Asperity; harshness of temper. Take care that no sourness and moroseness mingle with our seriousness of mind. – Nelson.

SOUR'SOP, n.

A plant, the Anona muricata. – Lee. The custard apple. – Miller.

SOUS, n. [plur. of Sou or Sol. See Sou.]

SOUSE, adv.

With sudden violence. [This word is low and vulgar.]

SOUSE, n. [Ir. sousgeach, watery.]

1. Pickle made with salt.
2. Something kept or steeped in pickle.
3. The ears, feet, &c. of swine pickled.

SOUSE, v.i. [Ger. sausen, to rush.]

To fall suddenly on; to rush with speed; as a hawk on its prey. Jove's bird will souse upon the tim'rous hare. – Dryden.

SOUSE, v.t.¹

1. To steep in pickle. But souse the cabbage with a bounteous heart. – Pope.
2. To plunge into water. They soused me into the Thames, with as little remorse as they drown blind puppies. – Shak.

SOUSE, v.t.²

To strike with sudden violence. – Shak.

SOUS'ED, pp.

1. Steeped in pickle.
2. Plunged into water.

SOUT-ER, n. [Sax. sutere; L. sutor.]

A shoemaker; a cobbler. [Not in use.] – Chaucer.

SOUT-ER-LY, adv.

Like a cobbler. [Not in use.]

SOUT-ER-RAIN, n. [Fr.; that is, sub-terrain, under ground.]

A grotto or cavern under ground. [Not English.] – Arbuthnot.

SOUTH, a.

1. In any place north of the tropic of Cancer, pertaining to or lying in the meridian toward the sun; as, a south wind.
2. Being in a southern direction; as, the south sea.

SOUTH, adv.

Toward the south. A ship sails south; the wind blows south.

SOUTH, n. [Sax. suth; G. sud; D. zuid; Dan. sud; Sw. söder; Fr. sud; Arm. su.]

1. The north and south are opposite points in the horizon; each ninety degrees or the quarter of a great circle distant from the east and west. A man standing with his face toward the east or rising sun, has the south on his right hand. The meridian of every place is a great circle passing through the north and south points. Strictly, south is the horizontal point in the meridian of a place, on the right hand of a person standing with his face toward the east. But the word is applied to any point in the meridian, between the horizon and the zenith.
2. In a less exact sense, any point or place on the earth or in the heavens, which is near the meridian toward the right hand as one faces the east.
3. A southern region, country or place; as, the queen of the south, in Scripture. So in Europe, the people of Spain and Italy are spoken of as living in the south. In the United States, we speak of the states of the south, end of the north.
4. The wind that blows from the south. [Not used.] – Shak.

SOUTH-COT'TI-AN, n.

A follower of Joanna Southcott, a fanatical female, who made a great noise in England at the close of the last and beginning of the present century.

SOUTH-EAST, a.

In the direction of southeast, or coming from the southeast; as, a southeast wind.

SOUTH-EAST, n.

The point of the compass equally distant from the south and east. – Bacon.

SOUTH-EAST-ERN, a.

Toward the southeast.

SOUTH-ER-LY, a. [suth'erly.]

1. Lying at the south, or in a direction nearly south; as, a southerly point.
2. Coming from the south or a point nearly south; as, a southerly wind.