souse

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To plunge into a liquid.
2. v. To make soaking wet; drench.
3. v. To steep in a mixture, as in pickling.
4. v. Slang To make intoxicated.
5. v. To become immersed or soaking wet.
6. n. The act or process of sousing.
7. n. Food steeped in pickle, especially pork trimmings.
8. n. The liquid used in pickling; brine.
9. n. Slang A drunkard.
10. n. Slang A period of heavy drinking; a binge.
11. v. To pounce on; attack.
12. v. To swoop down, as an attacking hawk does.
13. n. Obsolete A swooping motion of attack.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. Pickle made with salt; sauce.
2. n. Something kept or steeped in pickle; especially, the head, ears, and feet of swine pickled.
3. n. The car: in contempt.
4. To steep in piekle.
5. To plunge (into water or other liquid); cover or drench (with liquid).
6. To pour or dash, as water.
7. To swoop; rush with violence; descend with speed or headlong, as a hawk on its prey.
8. To strike.
9. To be diligent.
10. To strike with sudden violence, as a bird strikes its prey; pounce upon.
11. n. A pouncing down; a stoop or swoop; a swift or precipitate descent, especially for attack: as, the souse of a hawk upon its prey.
12. n. A blow; a thump.
13. n. A dip or plunge in the water.
14. With a sudden plunge; with headlong descent; with violent motion downward; less correctly, with sudden violence in any direction.
15. n. See sous.
16. n. In architecture, a support or underprop.

Wiktionary

1. n. A corrupt form of sou.
2. n. A pickle made with salt.
3. n. Something kept or steeped in pickle; esp., the pickled ears, feet, etc., of swine.
4. n. The ear; especially, a hog's ear.
5. n. US, Appalachian Pickled scrapple.
6. n. A person suffering from the disease of alcoholism.
7. n. Caribbean Pickled/ Boiled ears and feet of a pig
8. v. to immerse in liquid; to steep or drench
9. n. A heavy blow.
10. v. now dialectal, transitive To strike or beat.
11. v. now dialectal, intransitive To fall heavily.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. Pickle made with salt.
2. n. Something kept or steeped in pickle; esp., the pickled ears, feet, etc., of swine.
3. n. Prov. Eng. The ear; especially, a hog's ear.
4. n. The act of sousing; a plunging into water.
5. v. To steep in pickle; to pickle.
6. v. To plunge or immerse in water or any liquid.
7. v. To drench, as by an immersion; to wet throughly.
8. v. To swoop or plunge, as a bird upon its prey; to fall suddenly; to rush with speed; to make a sudden attack.
9. v. rare To pounce upon.
10. n. The act of sousing, or swooping.
11. adv. With a sudden swoop; violently.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. cover with liquid; pour liquid onto
2. v. immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
3. n. pork trimmings chopped and pickled and jelled
4. n. a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually
5. n. the act of making something completely wet
6. v. become drunk or drink excessively
7. v. cook in a marinade