sowse
English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]sowse (plural sowses)
Verb
[edit]sowse (third-person singular simple present sowses, present participle sowsing, simple past and past participle sowsed)
- Obsolete spelling of souse.
- c. 1603 (date written), Iohn Marston, The Malcontent, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for William Aspley, […], published 1604, →OCLC, Act IV, scene iii:
- For then I viewd his body fall and ſowſe / Into the fomy maine, […]
- 1697, Virgil, “The Eighth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
- The Dirae sowse from heaven with swift descent.