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10 definitions for souse From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Sous \Sous\, Souse \Souse\ (F. s[=oo]; colloq. Eng. sous), n.
A corrupt form of Sou. [Obs.] --Colman, the Elder.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Souse \Souse\, n. [OF. sausse. See Sauce.] [Written also souce, sowce, and sowse.] 1. Pickle made with salt. [1913 Webster] 2. Something kept or steeped in pickle; esp., the pickled ears, feet, etc., of swine. [1913 Webster] And he that can rear up a pig in his house, Hath cheaper his bacon, and sweeter his souse. --Tusser. [1913 Webster] 3. The ear; especially, a hog's ear. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster] 4. The act of sousing; a plunging into water. [1913 Webster]From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Souse \Souse\, v. t.
To pounce upon. [R.]
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[The gallant monarch] like eagle o'er his serie towers,
To souse annoyance that comes near his nest. --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Souse \Souse\, n.
The act of sousing, or swooping.
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As a falcon fair
That once hath failed or her souse full near.
--Spenser.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Souse \Souse\, n.
A drunkard. [slang]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Souse \Souse\, adv.
With a sudden swoop; violently. --Young.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Souse \Souse\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Soused; p. pr. & vb. n. Sousing.] [Cf. F. saucer to wet with sauce. See Souse pickle.] 1. To steep in pickle; to pickle. "A soused gurnet." --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. To plunge or immerse in water or any liquid. [1913 Webster] They soused me over head and ears in water. --Addison. [1913 Webster] 3. To drench, as by an immersion; to wet throughly. [1913 Webster] Although I be well soused in this shower. --Gascoigne. [1913 Webster]From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Souse \Souse\, v. i. [Probably fr. OF. sors, p. p. of sordre to
rise, and first used of an upward swood, then of a swoop in
general, but also confused with Souse, v. t. See Source.]
To swoop or plunge, as a bird upon its prey; to fall
suddenly; to rush with speed; to make a sudden attack.
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For then I viewed his plunge and souse
Into the foamy main. --Marston.
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Jove's bird will souse upon the timorous hare. --J.
Dryden. Jr.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 :
souse
n 1: a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually [syn: alcoholic,
alky, dipsomaniac, boozer, lush, soaker]
2: pork trimmings chopped and pickled and jelled
3: the act of making something completely wet; "he gave it a
good drenching" [syn: drenching, soaking, sousing]
v 1: cover with liquid; pour liquid onto; "souse water on his hot
face" [syn: drench, douse, dowse, soak, sop]
2: immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or
saturate; "dip the garment into the cleaning solution";
"dip the brush into the paint" [syn: dunk, dip, plunge,
douse]
3: become drunk or drink excessively [syn: soak, inebriate,
hit it up]
4: cook in a marinade; "souse herring"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
123 Moby Thesaurus words for "souse":
baptism, baptize, bathe, bender, booze, booze up, boozehound,
boozify, bottle sucker, brannigan, brew, brewing, bum, burial,
bury, bust, chug, chug-a-lug, crock, deluge, dip, dipping, douche,
douse, dousing, drench, drenching, drouk, drown, drunk, duck,
ducking, dunk, dunking, elbow bender, engulf, engulfment, flush,
fuddle, ginhound, hooch hound, imbrue, imbruement, imbue,
imbuement, immerge, immergence, immerse, immersion, impregnate,
impregnation, infiltrate, infiltration, infuse, infusion, inject,
injection, inundate, inundation, jag, lave, leach, leaching,
liquor, liquor up, lixiviate, lixiviation, lush, lusher, macerate,
maceration, merge, overtake, overwhelm, percolate, percolation,
permeate, permeation, pickle, plaster, plunge in water, pollute,
pulping, raise the elbow, rinse, rum hound, rummy, saturate,
saturation, seethe, seething, sink, sinking, soak, soakage,
soaking, sodden, sop, sopping, sousing, sponge, steep, steeping,
stew, stone, submerge, submergence, submerse, submersion, swack,
swig, swill, swillbelly, swillbowl, swillpot, tank up, tear,
tipsify, wash, waterlog, wet, whelm, wino
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