SOREn.
1. A place in an animal body where the skin and flesh are ruptured or bruised, so as to be pained with the slightest pressure.
2. An ulcer; a boil.
3. In Scriptures, grief; affliction. 2 Chronicles 6:29.
SOREa.
1. Tender and susceptible of pain from pressure; as, a boil, ulcer or abscess is very sore; a wounded place is sore; inflammation renders a part sore.
2. Tender, as the mind; easily pained, grieved or vexed; very susceptible of irritation from any thing that crosses the inclination. Malice and hatred are very fretting, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy.
3. Affected with inflammation; as sore eyes.
4. Violent with pain; severe; afflictive; distressing; as a sore disease; sore evil or calamity; a sore night.
5. Severe; violent; as a sore conflict.
6. Criminal; evil.
SOREadv.
1. With painful violence; intensely; severely; grievously. They hand presseth me sore.
2. Greatly; violently; deeply. He was sorely afflicted at the loss of his son. Sore sigh'd the knight, who this long sermon heard.
SOREv.t.
To wound; to make sore.
SOREn.
A hawk of the first year.