From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Souse \Souse\, verb (used without an object) [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}, verb (used with an object) 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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sous \Sous\, Souse \Souse\ (F. s[=oo]; colloq. Eng. sous), noun A corrupt form of Sou. [Obs.] --Colman, the Elder.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Souse \Souse\, noun [OF. sausse. See {Sauce}.] [Written also {souce}, {sowce}, and {sowse}.]
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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Souse \Souse\, verb (used with an object) [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. ''A soused gurnet.'' --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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Souse \Souse\, verb (used with an object) To pounce upon. [R.]
[The gallant monarch] like eagle o'er his serie towers, To souse annoyance that comes near his nest. --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Souse \Souse\, noun The act of sousing, or swooping.
As a falcon fair That once hath failed or her souse full near. --Spenser.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Souse \Souse\, adverb With a sudden swoop; violently. --Young.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually [syn: {alcoholic}, {alky}, {dipsomaniac}, {boozer}, {lush}, {soaker}]
2: pork trimmings chopped and pickled and jelled
3: the act of making something completely wet; "he gave it a good drenching" [syn: {drenching}, {soaking}, {sousing}]
verb
1: cover with liquid; pour liquid onto; "souse water on his hot face" [syn: {drench}, {douse}, {dowse}, {soak}, {sop}]
2: 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" [syn: {dunk}, {dip}, {plunge}, {douse}]
3: become drunk or drink excessively [syn: {soak}, {inebriate}, {hit it up}]
4: cook in a marinade; "souse herring"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
123 Moby Thesaurus words for "souse": baptism, baptize, bathe, bender, booze, booze up, boozehound, boozify, bottle sucker, brannigan, brew, brewing, bum, burial, bury, bust, chug, chug-a-lug, crock, deluge, dip, dipping, douche, douse, dousing, drench, drenching, drouk, drown, drunk, duck, ducking, dunk, dunking, elbow bender, engulf, engulfment, flush, fuddle, ginhound, hooch hound, imbrue, imbruement, imbue, imbuement, immerge, immergence, immerse, immersion, impregnate, impregnation, infiltrate, infiltration, infuse, infusion, inject, injection, inundate, inundation, jag, lave, leach, leaching, liquor, liquor up, lixiviate, lixiviation, lush, lusher, macerate, maceration, merge, overtake, overwhelm, percolate, percolation, permeate, permeation, pickle, plaster, plunge in water, pollute, pulping, raise the elbow, rinse, rum hound, rummy, saturate, saturation, seethe, seething, sink, sinking, soak, soakage, soaking, sodden, sop, sopping, sousing, sponge, steep, steeping, stew, stone, submerge, submergence, submerse, submersion, swack, swig, swill, swillbelly, swillbowl, swillpot, tank up, tear, tipsify, wash, waterlog, wet, whelm, wino
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