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adjective

Sore adj. Reddish brown; sorrel. (R.)

Sore falcon. (Zool.) See Sore, n., 1.

Sore adj. (compar. sorer; superl. sorest)

1.

Tender to the touch; susceptible of pain from pressure; inflamed; painful; said of the body or its parts; as, a sore hand.

2.

Fig.: Sensitive; tender; easily pained, grieved, or vexed; very susceptible of irritation. "Malice and hatred are very fretting and vexatious, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy."

3.

Severe; afflictive; distressing; as, a sore disease; sore evil or calamity.

4.

Criminal; wrong; evil. (Obs.)

Sore throat (Med.), inflammation of the throat and tonsils; pharyngitis. See Cynanche.

Malignant sore throat, Ulcerated sore throat or Putrid sore throat. See Angina, and under Putrid.

noun

Sore n. (Zool.)

1.

A young hawk or falcon in the first year.

2.

(Zool.) A young buck in the fourth year. See the Note under Buck.

Sore n.

1.

A place in an animal body where the skin and flesh are ruptured or bruised, so as to be tender or painful; a painful or diseased place, such as an ulcer or a boil. "The dogs came and licked his sores."

2.

Fig.: Grief; affliction; trouble; difficulty. "I see plainly where his sore lies."

Gold sore. (Med.) See under Gold, n.

adverb

Sore adv.

1.

In a sore manner; with pain; grievously. "Thy hand presseth me sore."

2.

Greatly; violently; deeply. "(Hannah) prayed unto the Lord and wept sore." "Sore sighed the knight, who this long sermon heard."

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... out and fix themselves wistfully on the dim line of Paradise Ridge which was cut by the square steeple of weathered stone just where Old Harpeth humps itself up above the rest of the Ridge; and something sore and angry and trapped hurt under ...

— The Heart's Kingdom • Maria Thompson Daviess

... drudgery, but any sort of work that is slighted becomes drudgery; poetry, fiction, painting, sculpture, acting, architecture, if you do not do your best by them, turn to drudgery sore as digging ditches, hewing wood, or drawing water; and these, by the same blessings of God, become arts if they are done with conscience and ...

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... admiration of the writings of George Sand was so great that it would have been a sore disappointment to her if George Sand were to prove inaccessible. A letter of introduction to her had been obtained from Mazzini. "Ah, I am so vexed about George Sand," Mrs Browning wrote on Christmas Eve; "she came, she has gone, and we haven't met." In February she again was ...

— Robert Browning • Edward Dowden

... for sore eyes to see you again," said Mr. Dickerson, closing both of his hands on hers. "Let's see; it's four years ago! How the time flies! I declare, it don't hardly seem a day. Mustn't tell you how you've grown, ...

— The Coast of Bohemia • William Dean Howells

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— Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern -- Volume 11 • Various

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