souse

1. (transitive) To immerse in liquid; to steep or drench.Examples: "(Although I bee well soused in this showere,)"; "For then I viewd his body fall and ſowſe / Into the fomy maine, […]"; "As for my ſelf, they uſed to ſowſe me over head and ears in water when I was a boy"transitive

2. (transitive) To steep in brine; to pickle.transitive

1. (now dialectal, transitive) To strike, beat.dialectaltransitive

2. (now dialectal, intransitive) To fall heavily.Examples: "Him so transfixed she before her bore / Beyond his croupe, the length of all her launce; / Till, sadly soucing on the sandy shore, / He tombled on an heape, and wallowd in his gore."; "Thus on some silver swan or tim'rous hare / Jove's bird comes sowsing down from upper air"dialectalintransitive

3. (obsolete, transitive) To pounce upon.Examples: "[The gallant monarch] like an eagle o'er his eyrie towers, / To souse annoyance that comes near his nest."obsoletetransitive

1. (now rare, dialectal) Suddenly, without warning.Examples: "Mr Nash […] suddenly taking the gentleman by the collar of his coat, and waistband of his breeches, threw him souse over the parapet to the object of his love."archaicdialectalnot-comparable

1. (obsolete) A sou (the French coin).obsolete

2. (dated) A small amount.dated

1. (US, Internet slang) Pronunciation spelling of source.InternetUSalt-ofpronunciation-spelling