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Souse [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

With sudden violence. [This word is low and vulgar.]

Souse [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Pickle made with salt.

2. Something kept or steeped on pickle.

3. The ears, feet, etc. of swine. [America.]

Souse [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

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 [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

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.

3. To strike with sudden violence.

Souse [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

With a sudden swoop; violently.

Souse [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A corrupt form of Sou.

2. Pickle made with salt.

3. Something kept or steeped in pickle; esp., the pickled ears, feet, etc., of swine.

4. The ear; especially, a hog's ear.

5. The act of sousing; a plunging into water.

6. The act of sousing, or swooping.

Souse [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To steep in pickle; to pickle.

2. To plunge or immerse in water or any liquid.

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

4. To swoop or plunge, as a bird upon its prey; to fall suddenly; to rush with speed; to make a sudden attack.

5. To pounce upon.

Soused [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913