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Dowse

verb

Wet thoroughly. Synonym: douse.

Use a divining rod in search of underground water or metal.

Slacken. Synonym: douse.

Cover with liquid; pour liquid onto. Synonyms: douse, drench, soak, sop, souse.

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"Dowse" Quotes from Famous Books

... precario, as his tutor courteously phrased it. And then he had gotten out of his college gown into a beautiful blue frock coat and white duck trousers, and driven into town and sought for other favors, more of flesh and blood, carried his other degree with a rush—and Miss Abigail Dowse off to drive with him. And that evening Mr. James Bowdoin had said ...

— Pirate Gold • Frederic Jesup Stimson

Words linked to "Dowse" : soothsaying, souse, wet, flush, soak, dowser, bate, bedraggle, divination, dowsing, foretelling, fortune telling, sluice, divine, draggle, slacken, ret, douse, remit, brine