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(Med.) A medicine or application for drying up a sore. Wiseman.

The act of deterging or cleansing, as a sore.

Act of digladiating. [Obs.] "Sore digladiations and contest." Evelyn.

o deprive of ease; to disquiet; to trouble; to distress. [Obs.] His double burden did him sore disease. Spenser.

A small ovoid or cylindrical roil or pledget of lint, for keeping a sore, wound, etc., open; a tent.

To vex; to torment; to trouble. [Obs.] As man that in his dream is drecched sore. Chaucer.

To treat methodically with remedies, bandages, or curative appliances, as a sore, an ulcer, a wound, or a wounded or diseased part.

An assistant in a hospital, whose office it is to dress wounds, sores, etc.

An application (a remedy, bandage, etc.) to a sore or wound. Wiseman.

An external something or soothing application to allay irritation, soreness, etc.

Strongly affected. [Obs.] The Briton Prince was sore empassionate. Spenser.

To fester. [Obs.] "Enfestered sores." Davies (Holy Roode).

Promoting the skinning over or healing of sores; as, an epulotic ointment. -- n.

The earth. [Prov. Eng.] Wright. Erd shrew (Zoöl.), the common European shrew (Sorex vulgaris); the shrewmouse.

Very sore; ulcerated. [Obs.] Bacon.

A fretting; a festering; soreness. Hooker.

To generate pus; to become imflamed and suppurate; as, a sore or a wound festers. Wounds immedicable Rankle, and fester, and gangrene. Milton. Unkindness may give a wound that shall bleed and smart, but it is treachery that makes it fester. South. Hatred . . . festered in the hearts of the children of the soil. Macaula…

e genus Triosteum (T. perfoliatum); -- called also feverwort amd horse gentian. -- Fever sore, a carious ulcer or necrosis. Miner.

To bruise sorely or exceedingly. [Obs.] All forbrosed, both back and side. Chaucer.

See Fossores.