SOUSE, noun 1. Pickle made with salt. 2. Something kept or steeped on pickle. 3. The ears, feet, etc. of swine. [America.] SOUSE, verb transitive 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, verb intransitive [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, verb transitive To strike with sudden violence. SOUSE, adverb With sudden violence. [This word is low and vulgar.]
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