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the place as a permanent habitation; to delay; to tarry. Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there. Gen. xii. 30. Home he goeth, he might not longer sojourn. Chaucer. The soldiers first assembled at Newcastle, and there sojourned three days. Hayward.

One who sojourns. We are strangers before thee, and sojourners. 1. Chron. xxix. 15.

The act or state of one who sojourns.

Temporary residence, as that of a stranger or a traveler. [R.]

A summoner; an apparitor; a sompnour. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

A summoner. [Obs.]

A summoner. [Obs.] Chaucer.

sharp, biting taste, like vinegar, and the juices of most unripe fruits; acid; tart. All sour things, as vinegar, provoke appetite. Bacon.

The act of rising; a rise; an ascent. [Obs.] Therefore right as an hawk upon a sours Up springeth into the air, right so prayers . . . Maken their sours to Goddes ears two. Chaucer.

See Sauerkraut.

To have origin or source; to rise; to spring. [Obs.] Now might men ask whereof that pride sourdeth. Chaucer.

Any sour apple.

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

Same as Sauerkraut.

In a sour manner; with sourness.

The quality or state of being sour.

Source. See Source. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The large succulent and slightly acid fruit of a small tree (Anona muricata) of the West Indies; also, the tree itself. It is closely allied to the custard apple.

The sorrel tree.

; passion. [Obs.] Fairfax. "That woeful stowre." Spenser. She that helmed was in starke stours [fierce conflicts]. Chaucer.