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2. (Zoöl.) A young buck in the fourth year. See the Note under Buck.

Sore, a. [Compar. Sorer (&?;); superl. Sorest.] [OE. sor, sar, AS. sr; akin to D. zeer, OS. & OHG. s&?;r, G. sehr very, Icel. srr, Sw. sår, Goth. sair pain. Cf. Sorry.] 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.

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.

Sore (?), n. [OE. sor, sar, AS. sr. See Sore, a.] 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.

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.

Sore, adv. [AS. sre. See Sore, a.] 1. In a sore manner; with pain; grievously.

Thy hand presseth me sore.

Ps. xxxviii. 2.

2. Greatly; violently; deeply.

1 Sam. i. 10.

Sore sighed the knight, who this long sermon heard.

Dryden.

||So*re"di*a (?), n., pl. of Soredium.

So*re"di*ate (?), a. (Bot.) Sorediïferous.

{Sor`e*dif"er*ous (?), or So*re`di*if"er*ous (?) }, a. [Soredium + -ferous.] (Bot.) Bearing soredia; sorediate.

||So*re"di*um (?), n.; pl. Soredia (#). [NL., fr. Gr. &?; a heap.] ||(Bot.) A patch of granular bodies on the surface of the thallus of ||lichens.

So"ree (&?;), n. (Zoöl.) Same as Sora.

Sore"head` (?), n. One who is disgruntled by a failure in politics, or the like. [Slang, U.S.]