Definition of "sowse"

sowse

/saʊs/

noun
plural sowses
1. Obsolete form of souse.
verb
third-person singular simple present sowses, present participle sowsing, simple past and past participle sowsed
1. Obsolete spelling of souse.
  Quotations
  For then I viewd his body fall and ſowſe / Into the fomy maine, […]
  c. 1603 (date written), Iohn Marston, The Malcontent, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for William Aspley, […], published 1604, Act IV, scene iii
  The Dirae sowse from heaven with swift descent.
  1697, Virgil, “The Eighth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […]