Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as stoor, stoor.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete See Stour, n.
  • adjective obsolete See Stour, a.

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Examples

  • And of my stress of parting-stowre on me so heavy weighs

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • War, and brake the power of the children of impiety and pride and stowre.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • But in the stress and stowre I got sundry grievous wounds and sore; and, since that time, I have passed on his back three days without tasting food or sleeping aught, so that my strength is down brought and the world is become to me as naught.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • What, for example, does the modern Englishman make of this, taken from the “Tale of the Wolf and the Fox,” “Follow not frowardness, for the wise forbid it; and it were most manifest frowardness to leave me in this pit draining the agony of death and dight to look upon mine own doom, whereas it lieth in thy power to deliver me from my stowre?”

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003

  • And for his sake haue felt full many an heauie stowre.

    The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser

  • Then gan she waile and weepe, to see that woefull stowre.

    The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser

  • War, and brake the power of the children of impiety and pride and stowre.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • But in the stress and stowre I got sundry grievous wounds and sore; and, since that time, I have passed on his back three days without tasting food or sleeping aught, so that my strength is down brought and the world is become to me as naught.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • Hast thou not heard the words of the poet who spoke these couplets, [FN#149] 'The world aye whirleth with its sweet and sour * And Time aye trippeth with its joy and stowre:

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • Stanza XXXII. line 679. stowre, noise and confusion of battle.

    Marmion Walter Scott 1801

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