Hypertext Webster Gateway: "sore"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

The dogs came and licked his sores. --Luke xvi.
21.

2. Fig.: Grief; affliction; trouble; difficulty. --Chaucer.

I see plainly where his sore lies. --Sir W.
Scott.

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

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

{Sore falcon}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Sore}, n., 1.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

2. (Zo["o]l.) A young buck in the fourth year. See the Note
under {Buck}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Thy hand presseth me sore. --Ps. xxxviii.
2.

2. Greatly; violently; deeply.

[Hannah] prayed unto the Lord and wept sore. --1
Sam. i. 10.

Sore sighed the knight, who this long sermon heard.
--Dryden.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.
--Tillotson.

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

4. Criminal; wrong; evil. [Obs.] --Shak.

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

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

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

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