ppl. a. [f. SOUSE v.1]
1. Steeped in pickle; pickled.
a. 1550[?]. Freiris Berwik, 260, in Dunbar’s Poems (1893), 294. Ane sowsit nolt fute, and scheipheid.
1584. Powel, Lloyd’s Cambria, 104. He should want no maner of Powdered and Sowsed meats.
1621. Burton, Anat. Mel., I. ii. II. i. (1651), 68. Dryed, sowced, indurate fish, as Ling,… Red-herrings.
1676. Shadwell, Libertine, III. If I serve you not in your kind, then am I a sows’d sturgeon.
1677. Wycherley, Pl. Dealer, III. i. Go, dear Rogue, and succeed; and I’ll invite thee, ere it be long, to more souz’d Venison.
1790. Shirrefs, Poems, 210. A’ their een were chiefly fixt Upo’ soust feet.
1842. Combe, Digestion, 137. At nine o’clock A. M. he breakfasted on soused tripe, pig’s feet, bread and coffee.
fig. 1622. Fletcher, Beggar’s Bush, IV. i. You shall not sink, for ne’r a sowst Flap-dragon, For ne’r a pickl’d Pilcher of ’em all, Sir.
2. Soaked in liquor.
1613. Beaum. & Fl., Captain, I. ii. I am of that opinion, and will dye in’t, There is no understanding, nor can be In a soust Souldier.
