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   Source , n. [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.]
   The act of rising; a rise; an ascent. [Obs.]
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   Therefore right as an hawk upon a sours
   Up springeth into the air, right so prayers . . . 
   Maken their sours to Goddes ears two.
   Chaucer.
   
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   The rising from the ground, or beginning, of a stream of water or the like; a spring; a fountain.
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   Where as the Poo out of a welle small
   Taketh his firste springing and his sours.
   Chaucer.
   
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   Kings that rule
   Behind the hidden sources of the Nile.
   Addison.
   
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   That from which anything comes forth, regarded as its cause or origin; the person from whom anything originates; first cause.
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   This source of ideas every man has wholly in himself.
   Locke.
   
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   The source of Newton's light, of Bacon's sense.
   Pope.
   
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   Syn. -- See Origin.
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