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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SOUSE, n.
1. Pickle made with salt.
2. Something kept or steeped on pickle.
3. The ears, feet, etc. of swine. [America.]
SOUSE, v.t.
1. To steep in pickle. But souse the cabbage with a bounteous heart.
2. To plunge into water. They soused me into the Thames, with as little remorse as they drown blind puppies.
SOUSE, v.i. [See Soss. This word is probably the same as the preceding, to plunge, to dip; I believe from the Armoric.] To fall suddenly on; to rush with speed; as a hawk on its prey. Jove's bird will souse upon the tim'rous hare.
SOUSE, v.t. To strike with sudden violence.
SOUSE, adv. With sudden violence. [This word is low and vulgar.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually [syn: alcoholic, alky, dipsomaniac, boozer, lush, soaker, souse]
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, souse, sousing] v
1: cover with liquid; pour liquid onto; "souse water on his hot face" [syn: drench, douse, dowse, soak, sop, souse]
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, souse, plunge, douse]
3: become drunk or drink excessively [syn: souse, soak, inebriate, hit it up]
4: cook in a marinade; "souse herring"

Merriam Webster's

I. verb (soused; sousing) Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French suz, souce pickling juice, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German sulza brine, Old English sealt salt Date: 14th century transitive verb 1. pickle 2. a. to plunge in liquid ; immerse b. drench, saturate 3. to make drunk ; inebriate intransitive verb to become immersed or drenched II. noun Date: 14th century 1. something pickled; especially seasoned and chopped pork trimmings, fish, or shellfish 2. an act of sousing ; wetting 3. a. a habitual drunkard b. a drinking spree ; binge III. verb (soused; sousing) Etymology: Middle English souce, noun, start of a bird's flight, alteration of sours, probably from Anglo-French surse source — more at source Date: 1567 intransitive verb archaic to swoop down ; plunge transitive verb archaic to swoop down on

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. & n. --v. 1 tr. put (gherkins, fish, etc.) in pickle. 2 tr. & intr. plunge into liquid. 3 tr. (as soused adj.) colloq. drunk. 4 tr. (usu. foll. by in) soak (a thing) in liquid. 5 tr. (usu. foll. by over) throw (liquid) over a thing. --n. 1 a pickle made with salt. b US food, esp. a pig's head etc., in pickle. 2 a dip, plunge, or drenching in water. 3 colloq. a a drinking-bout. b a drunkard. Etymology: ME f. OF sous, souz pickle f. OS sultia, OHG sulza brine f. Gmc: cf. SALT

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. 2. To plunge or immerse in water or any liquid. They soused me over head and ears in water. --Addison. 3. To drench, as by an immersion; to wet throughly. Although I be well soused in this shower. --Gascoigne.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Sous Sous, Souse Souse (F. s[=oo]; colloq. Eng. sous), n. A corrupt form of Sou. [Obs.] --Colman, the Elder.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Souse Souse, n. [OF. sausse. See Sauce.] [Written also souce, sowce, and sowse.] 1. Pickle made with salt. 2. Something kept or steeped in pickle; esp., the pickled ears, feet, etc., of swine. And he that can rear up a pig in his house, Hath cheaper his bacon, and sweeter his souse. --Tusser. 3. The ear; especially, a hog's ear. [Prov. Eng.] 4. The act of sousing; a plunging into water.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. For then I viewed his plunge and souse Into the foamy main. --Marston. Jove's bird will souse upon the timorous hare. --J. Dryden. Jr.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Souse Souse, v. t. To pounce upon. [R.] [The gallant monarch] like eagle o'er his serie towers, To souse annoyance that comes near his nest. --Shak.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Souse Souse, n. The act of sousing, or swooping. As a falcon fair That once hath failed or her souse full near. --Spenser.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Souse Souse, adv. With a sudden swoop; violently. --Young.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. 1. Pickle. 2. Plunge, dip, immerse, submerge, douse, put under water (or other liquid).

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

Not a souse; not a penny. FRENCH.

Moby Thesaurus

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