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Webster 1913 Edition

(stour or stoōr)

Noun.

[OF.

estour

estor

, tumult, combat, of Teutonic origin. See

A battle or tumult; encounter; combat; disturbance; passion.

[Obs.]

Fairfax.

“That woeful stowre.”

Spenser.

She that helmed was in starke

stours

[fierce conflicts].

Chaucer.

Adj.

[See

Adj.

]

Tall; strong; stern.

[Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

Noun.

A battle or tumult. Stour, signifies a river, as in Sturbridge.