Also 8 souze. [f. SOUSE v.1]
1. An act of sousing; a plunge into, immersion in, or drenching with, water; dial., a wash.
1741. Lady M. W. Montagu, Corr. (1906), I. 88. I have sent for my bathing Cloaths, and on Sunday night shall take a souze.
1793. Minstrel, I. 185. I was a little unsensed by my sudden souse into the stream.
1820. Scott, Monast., v. Still keeping her hand on his collar, she gave him two or three good souses in the watery fluid.
1864. Dk. Manchester, Court & Soc. Eliz. to Anne, I. 192. A sack and a souse in the river not suiting his tastes.
1889. Gretton, Memory’s Harkback, 107. I was once saved from a souse in Milford Haven by the coachman’s presence of mind.
2. A sound as of water surging against something.
1883. F. M. Crawford, Mr. Isaacs, x. 212. His voice was again drowned in the swish and souse of the water.
