SOUSE, n.
1. Pickle made with salt.
2. Something kept or steeped on pickle.
3. The ears, feet, _c. of swine. [America.]
SOUSE, v.t.
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, v.i. [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, v.t. To strike with sudden violence.
SOUSE, adv. With sudden violence. [This word is low and vulgar.]
