Also 4 sower, 4–6 sowre, 6 soor, 6–7 soare, 9 sor. [Subst. use of SORE a.2]
† 1. Venery. A buck in its fourth year. Obs.
c. 1369. Chaucer, Dethe Blaunche, 429. Of fawnes, sowers [v.r. sowres], buckes, does Was ful the wodde.
1486. Bk. St. Albans, e iv. A sowre at the .iiij. yere.
1523. North Country Wills (Surtees), 116. The prior and covent … clayme of me … a buck or a soor agaynst Mary Magdaleyn day yerely.
1573. Twyne, Æneid., X. Ff iij b. If he a rowebuck swift…, Or els a sore may find, whose tender hornes begin to ryse.
1588. Shaks., L. L. L., IV. ii. 60. The Dogges did yell, put ell to Sore, then Sorell iumps from thicket.
1638. Nabbes, Totenham Court, I. iv. A longing Lady in the strand had a pricket. Then I sent a soare to Barber-Surgeons Hall.
1741. Compl. Fam.-Piece, II. i. 310. If any Deer come out that is not weighty, or a Deer of Antlier, which is Buck, Sore, or Sorel.
1774. Goldsm., Nat. Hist., II. v. (1862), I. 329/1.
1865. [see SORREL sb.2 2].
attrib. 1577. in Middlesex County Rec. (1886), I. 109. Duos coreos vocatos soreskynnes.
2. Falconry. A hawk in its second year. Also transf. (quot. a. 1613).
1600. [see SORE sb.4].
a. 1613. Overbury, Characters, Whore, Wks. (1856), 82. The first yeere of her trade she is an eyesse,… the second a soare.
a. 1682. Sir T. Browne, Tracts (1684), 118. Nor must you expect from high Antiquity the distinctions of Eyess and Ramage Hawks, of Sores and Entermewers, of Hawks of the Lure and the Fist.
