souse : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: souse	by the DICT Development Group
8 results for souse
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
souse n a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually [syn: alcoholic, alky, dipsomaniac, boozer, lush, soaker, souse] pork trimmings chopped and pickled and jelled the act of making something completely wet; "he gave it a good drenching" Synonym(s): drenching, soaking, souse, sousing v cover with liquid; pour liquid onto; "souse water on his hot face" Synonym(s): drench, douse, dowse, soak, sop, souse 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" Synonym(s): dunk, dip, souse, plunge, douse become drunk or drink excessively Synonym(s): souse, soak, inebriate, hit it up cook in a marinade; "souse herring"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sous \Sous\, Souse \Souse\ (F. s[oomac]; colloq. Eng. sous), n. A corrupt form of Sou. [Obs.] --Colman, the Elder.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Souse \Souse\, n. The act of sousing, or swooping. As a falcon fair That once hath failed or her souse full near. --Spenser.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Souse \Souse\, adv. With a sudden swoop; violently. --Young.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. [bd]A soused gurnet.[b8] --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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.