Middle English Dictionary Entry
sō̆r(e adj.(1)
Entry Info
| Forms | sō̆r(e adj.(1) Also soure, souir, saure & (in surnames) sar(e & (error) foure. |
| Etymology | OF sor, sore, saur(e, AF sour; also cp. ML sorus, AL sourus. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. sorel adj.
1.
(a) Of a horse: reddish-brown; as noun: a sorrel horse; ~ bausand, a piebald sorrel horse; ~ grisel, a grayish sorrel horse; red ~, reddish-brown; also, a reddish-brown horse; (b) of a hawk in its first year that has not yet molted: reddish-brown in plumage; also, of a hawk's breast feathers: reddish-brown; (c) as noun: hunt. a buck in its fourth year; gret ~, a buck in its fifth year; (d) of a herring: reddish-brown in color from being smoked; (e) in surnames; ?also as surname [exx. may belong to sor(e adj.(2), but cp. sorel adj. (c)].
Associated quotations
a
- (1342) in Whitaker Hist.Whalley 1309 : Idem, respondit de xxxv jumentis..quorum vj nigra, ij sor, vij bay..i sor grisele, i sor bauzan.
- (1342-4) in Whitaker Hist.Whalley 1311 : Liberavit..Rogero de Normanville xxxj jumenta quorum..i sor grisel..j sorbausan.
- (1342-4) in Whitaker Hist.Whalley 1312 : Item, respondit de vi pullanis..quorum iij grisel, i bay, i niger, et i sor.
- (1397) Inquis.Miscel.(PRO)6.224 : [A] sore [horse worth 33 s. 4 d.].
- c1440 Degrev.(Thrn)76 : Þare was sessid in his hande..Stedis stabillede in stallis, Lyarde and sore [vr. soore].
- a1500(a1400) Ipom.(1) (Chet 8009)2398 : Efte come another stede..And that was rede-sore.
- a1500(a1400) Ipom.(1) (Chet 8009)4980 : This stede thou shalt geve hym [king], þat is white, And syn this rede soure Present to my lady the quene.
b
- ?a1450 Poem Hawking (Yale 163)49 : Now here partyys wyll y discryve..Here sarcell, here wambelle, & here vent, Gorge, wampynion, and maylys foure [read: soure], White, and rede, and canwas to.
- c1460 Oseney Reg.106/29 : Þe same Abbot ȝafe to þe fforsaide Eustach j sparhauke Sowre.
- (1472) Paston (EETS)1.580 : I pray God send you all your desyers, and me my mwyd gosshawk in hast, or rather þen fayle, a sowyr hawke.
- a1475 Hrl.Bk.Hawking in Studia Neoph.169 : A goshauke or tercell, þat is a sore hauk, hath no mayle but after þe first coote.
- a1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)259/6 : William of seynt Eweyne..graunted, delyuered, and confermed with this present charter..to the heires of..Alisaundir of Swereford..a sperehawke sowre at the fest of seynt Petir ad Vincula.
c
- c1450(1369) Chaucer BD (Benson-Robinson)429 : Of founes, sowres, bukkes, does Was ful the woode, and many roes, And many sqwirelles.
- c1450(?a1400) Parl.3 Ages (Add 31042)34 : I seghe ane hert..borely and brode and of body grete, And a coloppe for a kynge, cache hym who myghte; Bot there sewet hym a sowre þet seruet hym full ȝerne.
- c1450 Twiti Venery(2) (Yale-BA Porter MS)46/13 : Now gow we to the hert and speke of hym in hys degre..þe furst ȝere he is a calf, þe second ȝere a broket, þe iii ȝere espayard, þe iv ȝere soure, þe v ȝere grete soure [F graunt sour].
- (1452) Lin.DDoc.58/18 : Item, to Iohn ffairefax a sawre, skynne tewed.
- 1486 ?Berners Bk.St.Albans (Blades 1881)leaf e iv/a : The fyrst yere he [buck] is A fawne sowkyng on his dam..The secunde yere a preket, the iii yere a sowrell, A sowre at the iiii yere.
d
- (1374) Doc.Coldingham in Sur.Soc.12p.lxxvi : xiij mayse de alecibus sore.
e
- (1177) in Pipe R.Soc.2622 : Johannes le Sor.
- (1198) CRR(1) 1182 : Walterus Soreberd.
- (1207-8) Fine R.King John461 : Philippus le Sor.
- (1217) Close R.Tower 1313 : Robertus le Sor.
- (1223) Pat.R.Hen.III401 : Osbertus le Sor.
- (1230) in Pipe R.Soc.n.s.4328 : Simonis Sare.
- (1232) Close R.Hen.III158 : Radulfus le Sor.
- (1273) Close R.Edw.I25 : Robert le Sor.
- (1327) Sub.R.Som.in Som.RS 3170 : Phillipus le Soor.
- (1329) Court R.Colchester 189 : Margery Sarcok.