SOURCES
Noun
sources
plural of source
Verb
sources
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of source
Anagrams
• Cousers, Croesus, Crouses, CrĹ“sus, Scouser, courses, rescous, scourse, scouser, sucrose
Source: Wiktionary
SOURCE
Source, n. Etym: [OE. sours, OF. sourse, surse, sorse, F. source, fr.
OF. sors, p.p. of OF. sordre, surdre, sourdre, to spring forth or up,
F. sourdre, fr. L. surgere to lift or raise up, to spring up. See
Surge, and cf. Souse to plunge or swoop as a bird upon its prey.]
1. The act of rising; a rise; an ascent. [Obs.]
Therefore right as an hawk upon a sours Up springeth into the air,
right so prayers . . . Maken their sours to Goddes ears two. Chaucer.
2. The rising from the ground, or beginning, of a stream of water or
the like; a spring; a fountain.
Where as the Poo out of a welle small Taketh his firste springing and
his sours. Chaucer.
Kings that rule Behind the hidden sources of the Nile. Addison.
3. That from which anything comes forth, regarded as its cause or
origin; the person from whom anything originates; first cause.
This source of ideas every man has wholly in himself. Locke.
The source of Newton's light, of Bacon's sense. Pope.
Syn.
– See Origin.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition