DOWSE: Dictionary Entry and Meaning
| Matching Terms: | | dowser, dowsing, dowsing rod, Dowst
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- [n] searching for underground water or minerals by using a dowsing rod
- [v] cover with liquid; pour liquid onto; "souse water on his hot face"
- [v] slacken; "douse a rope"
- [v] use a divining rod in search of underground water or metal
- [v] wet thoroughly
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| | Synonyms: | | douse, douse, dowsing, drench, rhabdomancy, soak, sop, souse |
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| | See Also: | | bate, bedraggle, brine, divination, divine, flush, foretelling, fortune telling, remit, ret, slacken, sluice, soothsaying, wet, wet | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Dowse\, v. t. [Cf. 1st {Douse}.]
1. To plunge, or duck into water; to immerse; to douse.
2. [Cf. OD. doesen to strike, Norw. dusa to break.] To beat
or thrash. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
\Dowse\, v. i.
To use the dipping or divining rod, as in search of water,
ore, etc.
Adams had the reputation of having dowsed successfully
for more than a hundred wells. --Eng. Cyc.
\Dowse\, n.
A blow on the face. [Low] --Colman.
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