Venery. Obs. [Of obscure origin: cf. RESORE.] intr. Of the hare: To traverse open ground.
1486. Bk. St. Albans, e viij b. In the feeldes where he [the hare] gooth no ways beene, Ther he sorth when he steppyth and hit may not be seene.
1576. Turberv., Venerie, 239. When a Hare is in playne fieldes, she Soreth.
1602. 2nd Pt. Return fr. Parnass., II. v. 937. By and by I might see him sore and resore, prick and reprick.
1704. Dict. Rust. (1726), Soring, the Footing of a Hare in open Field; for then the Huntsmen say, She Sores.
Sore, obs. variant of SOAR v.
