sowsse

Verb (1)

souse (third-person singular simple present souses, present participle sousing, simple past and past participle soused)

1. (transitive) To immerse in liquid; to steep or drench.
   • (Although I bee well soused in this showere,)1575, George Gascoigne, The introduction to the Psalme of De Profundis
2. (transitive) To steep in brine; to pickle.

Verb (2)

souse (third-person singular simple present souses, present participle sousing, simple past and past participle soused)

1. (dialectal, transitive) To strike, beat.
2. (dialectal, intransitive) To fall heavily.
   • Him so transfixed she before her bore / Beyond his croupe, the length of all her launce; / Till, sadly soucing on the sandy shore, / He tombled on an heape, and wallowd in his gore.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
3. (obsolete, transitive) To pounce upon.
   • [The gallant monarch] like an eagle o'er his eyrie towers, / To souse annoyance that comes near his nest.c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

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