Middle English Dictionary Entry
sǒusen v.
Entry Info
| Forms | sǒusen v. Also souse, souce(n; p. soused(e, sosede. |
| Etymology | Fromsǒus(e n.(1). |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) To steep or preserve (meat, fish, etc.) in pickle; -- also refl. and fig. [2nd quot.]; also, become pickled [quot. ?a1425 vr.]; (b) to drench (sth.); -- used fig.; plunge or dunk (sb.) in water; (c) to bathe (a hawk).
Associated quotations
a
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)7.217 : Tostius hakked his broþer servantes and sowsede [vr. sosede] here lemes, and sente word to þe kyng þat..he schulde have salt mete i-now.
- ?c1400 PPl.Z (Bod 851)2.100 : Sire Symonye ant thysylue..Wyth notaryes nysotes nuyest the peple Ant sowsest yow in synne wyth seynte Marye rentus.
- ?a1425(c1400) Mandev.(1) (Tit C.16)166/16 : Þei sleen hem alle & kutten of hire eres & sowcen hem in vynegre [Man.(2): layes þam in vynegre for to sowce] & þere of þei maken gret seruyse for lordes.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)466 : Sowcyn: Succido [Win: Sowsyn: Succidio].
- a1450 Hrl.Cook.Bk.(1) (Hrl 279)12 : Take Brawn an lesshe it, but nowt to þinne, An ȝif it sowsyd be, lete it stepe a whyle in hot water tyl it be tendere.
- a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sln 1986)53 : Ley in þy ray..Then take hit oute, þo skyn away, Souse hit in ale, and salt.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)117b : To Sowse: succiduare.
- 1591(?a1425) Chester Pl.(Hnt HM 2)130/121 : Loe, here a sheepes head sowsed in ale, and a grayne to laye on the greene, and sowre milke.
b
- c1450 All this day (Cai 383/603)p.307 : Jacke wol pay for my scoth A Sonday atte the ale-schoch; Jacke wol sowse wel my wroch Euery god halida.
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)496/32 : Sir Trystramys..sowsed sir Dagonet in that welle and aftir that hys squyars..and ryght so wete as they were he made them lepe up and ryde their wayes.
c
- ?a1450 Poem Hawking (Yale 163)167 : Yf that thu wolt not here souse, Anoynte here sore wyth salue ylke daye.
- ?a1450 Poem Hawking (Yale 163)614 : Thou canst not gladly..Souse any of these wythoute faile But yef here mete be take a-way.
- a1475 *Hrl.Diseases Hawk A (Hrl 2340)27b : Lat hyr flye Also hye as sche may syt, ffor with mych beryng, castyng, and batyng, þu mast kepe hir Ekyr I now; for yf þu kepe þi hawke hye, þu schall not sowse hir.