sores

Noun (1)

sore (plural sores)

1. An injured, infected, inflamed or diseased patch of skin.
   • They put ointment and a bandage on the sore.
2. Grief; affliction; trouble; difficulty.
   • I see plainly where his sore lies.1822, [Walter Scott], Peveril of the Peak. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC

Noun (2)

sore (plural sores)

1. A young hawk or falcon in its first year.
   • Of the soare faulcon so I learn to fly1596, Edmund Spenser, An Hymne of Heavenly Beautie
2. A young buck in its fourth year.
   • Some say a Sore, but not a sore, till now made sore with shooting.
   • The Dogges did yell, put ell to Sore, then Sorell iumps from thicket:
   • Or Pricket-sore, or else Sorell, the people fall a hooting.
   • If Sore be sore, then ell to Sore, makes fiftie sores O sorell:
   • Of one sore I an hundred make by adding but one more L.c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

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