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SOUSE, n.

1. Pickle made with salt.

2. Something kept or steeped on pickle.

3. The ears, feet, &c. 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.]

1913 Definition
Souse (souse)
n.(?)
Souse
[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.
  5. To steep in pickle] to pickle.
    "A soused gurnet." Shak.
  6. To plunge or immerse in water or any liquid.

    They soused me over head and ears in water. Addison.

  7. To drench, as by an immersion; to wet throughly.

    Although I be well soused in this shower. Gascoigne.

  8. 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.

  9. To pounce upon.
    [R.]

    [The gallant monarch] like eagle o'er his serie towers,
    To souse annoyance that comes near his nest.
    Shak.

  10. The act of sousing, or swooping.

    As a falcon fair
    That once hath failed or her souse full near.
    Spenser.

  11. With a sudden swoop; violently.
    Young.

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