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To cause internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs of (a horse), so as to disable or lame him.

common domestic fowls, pheasants, grouse, quails, and allied forms; -- sometimes called Rasores.

To concentrate; to come to a head, as a sore, and generate pus; as, a boil has gathered.

d rough material; to cause wearing, tearing, or bruising. Hence; To produce exasperation, soreness, or grief; to offend by oppression or importunity. This grated harder upon the hearts of men. South.

Head. In his headpiece he felt a sore pain. Spenser.

rent right of men to life, liberty, and protection. "A most inherent baseness." Shak. The sore disease which seems inherent in civilization. Southey.

One of the Insessores. The group includes most of the common singing birds.

Belonging or pertaining to the Insessores.

to chloroform. It is used in medicine as a healing and antiseptic dressing for wounds and sores.

ney. [R.] Our Savior, meek, and with untroubled mind After his aëry jaunt, though hurried sore. Hungry and cold, betook him to his rest. Milton.

s Hemiptera that sometimes bite the lip or other parts of the human body, causing painful sores, as the cone-nose (Conorhinus sanguisuga). [U. S.]

Acquaintance; kindred. And my near kith for sore me shend. W. Browne. The sage of his kith and the hamlet. Longfellow. Kith and kin, kindred more or less remote.

Knowledge; hence, experience. " In my knowing." Shak. This sore night Hath trifled former knowings. Shak.

ate from rectitude; to commit a fault by inadvertence or mistake. To lapse in fullness Is sorer than to lie for need. Shak.

Full of sores; leprous. Shak. Bp. Hall.

scraped or otherwise made into a soft, downy or fleecy substance for dressing wounds and sores; also, fine ravelings, down, fluff, or loose short fibers from yarn or fabrics. Lint doctor (Calico-printing Mach.), a scraper to remove lint from a printing cylinder.

g the motion of his lips without hearing his voice. Carpenter. -- Lip salve, a salve for sore lips. -- Lip service, expression by the lips of obedience and devotion without the performance of acts suitable to such sentiments. -- Lip wisdom, wise talk without practice, or unsupported by experience. -- Lip work. (a)…

Soreness of eyes; the state of being blear-eyes; blearedness.

To form pus or matter, as an abscess; to maturate. [R.] "Each slight sore mattereth." Sir P. Sidney.

Caused by the use of mercury; as, mercurial sore mouth.