Chiefly north. Also 5 sorede, 5–6 sorde, 6 sowerde, 9 Sc. sorit. [f. SORE a.2]

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  1.  Of horses, etc.: = SORREL a. a. ? Obs.

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1420.  E. E. Wills (1882), 53. A sorede horse þat was bought off Henuden. Ibid. Þe sorde hors.

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1545.  Richmond Wills (Surtees), 57. Item a sored horse, price xiij s. iiij d.

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1587.  Knaresb. Wills (Surtees), I. 158. A sowerde mare and a fole.

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1825.  Jamieson, Suppl., Sorit, of a sorrel colour; as, ‘a sorit horse,’ Clydes[dale].

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  † 2.  Of color: = SORREL a. c. Obs.

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1587.  Wills & Inv. N. C. (Surtees, 1860), 288. One stud mare, of colour bawson sored.

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