SOURING • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Souring

... letter accompanying these presents, to be noticed hereafter, they are thus described:—"A criss wrought with gold, the hilt being of beaten gold, with a ring of stones; an Assagaya of Swasse, half gold half copper; eight porcelain dishes small and great, of camfire one piece of souring stuff; three pieces of callico lawns."—The passage in Italics is inexplicable, either in the words of the letter, or in the description in ...

— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume IX. • Robert Kerr

... a devil sort of despotism is that! Can't a friend get drunk, or game, or swagger? may he not depart from the highway, and sidle into an alley, without souring his friend's temper and making him stingy? I don't understand it at all. I'm glad, at least, to find you are of another ...

— Confession • W. Gilmore Simms