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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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"Sore" Quotes from Famous Books

... pitching, and the cool breeze which fanned my fevered cheek, that the ship was close hauled on a wind, and probably far at sea. I looked at my arms; they were wasted to half their usual size, and my head was bandaged and very sore and painful. Slowly and with difficulty I recalled the events of the few hours preceding that in which I had lost my senses—then I remembered the melee on the mole. Evidently I had been severely ...

— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 3. March 1848 • Various

... a pestilent disease is on the body of the world— A disease that sometimes purges, but still leaves the victim sore; And no potent drug will cure it until Liberty has furled All the standards of the nations, and shall rule ...

— Stories in Verse • Henry Abbey

... Great, and two of them were very wise rulers. Elizabeth raised England to the very height of greatness, and the reign of Anne was illustrious in arms and not less illustrious in letters. A female sovereign supplied to Columbus the means of discovering this country. He wandered foot-sore and weary from court to court, from convent to convent, from one potentate to another, but no man on a throne listened to him, until a female sovereign pledged her jewels to fit out the expedition which "gave a new world to the kingdoms of Castile and Leon." Nor need we cite Anne of ...

— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II • Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage

... tree called Oglethorpe's oak. That worthy valiant old governor had a residence here himself in the early days of the colony; when, under the influence of Wesley, he vainly made such strenuous efforts to keep aloof from his infant province the sore curse of slavery. ...

— Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation - 1838-1839 • Frances Anne Kemble

... news, young master, mighty bad news. Thou knowest how in Essex men have refused to pay the poll-tax, but there has been naught of that on this side of the river as yet, though there is sore grumbling, seeing that the tax-collectors are not content with drawing the tax from those of proper age, but often demand payments for boys and girls, who, as they might see, are still under fourteen. It happened ...

— A March on London • G. A. Henty

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