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Dowse   /daʊs/   Listen
Dowse

verb
1.
Wet thoroughly.  Synonym: douse.
2.
Use a divining rod in search of underground water or metal.
3.
Slacken.  Synonym: douse.
4.
Cover with liquid; pour liquid onto.  Synonyms: douse, drench, soak, sop, souse.
noun
1.
Searching for underground water or minerals by using a dowsing rod.  Synonyms: dowsing, rhabdomancy.



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"Dowse" Quotes from Famous Books



... the ear, in music discord is the golden bond of harmony, the life and soul of expression, that for which the ear yearns with a yearning that is inexpressible, and enjoys with poignancy of pleasure. We asked, too, if Thomas Dowse should be honored with a page and a half, in which his fall from a tree, his rheumatic fever, and the head winds which prevented him from visiting Europe are chronicled,—while the eminent French painter, Couture, whose use of the pallet is marked by such striking originality, that it has produced ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 27, January, 1860 • Various

... Dowse, the cook, came into the yard smiling, and bringing with her a saucer containing bread and milk and a quill, in order that the nestling should have some supper. "O, thank you, Mrs. Dowse," cried Fanny. "I had quite ...
— The Goat and Her Kid • Harriet Myrtle

... the Island." It continued, however, as a fixed community until destroyed by the Indians during, and after, the massacre. On March 22, 1622 only 5 were killed at "Henrico Iland." It was represented in the assembly of 1619 by John Polentine and Thomas Dowse. The latter may have been actually living on the College land, above the "citty," where he had earlier received a patent from the hand of Argall. There is no mention of Henrico town in 1624 and 1625. As a matter of fact, the only settlement in the entire ...
— The First Seventeen Years: Virginia 1607-1624 • Charles E. Hatch

... to living with a tanner, I am no Brahmin, and believe that a man may not only live with a tanner, but be a tanner, and have all the culture, if not all the learning and the talent, of Simon's guest. Thomas Dowse pointed the way for many who will go much farther upon it ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 4, No. 24, Oct. 1859 • Various

... do declare and certify, that all the accompanying letters and documents are genuine and authentic. Jane Dowse, to whom and from whom, are so many letters, was my late mother, she having intermarried with Peter Dowse, the man so often named, and who led her into acts for which I know she has since been deeply repentant. In committing these papers to me, my poor mother ...
— Home as Found • James Fenimore Cooper

... Good-night Capp'n. Baby'll ketch cold if I keep on jawin' here. Mind your weather eye, and port your helm when you reach the landin'. If you'll take the advice of a young salt, you'll clew up your mainsail an' dowse some of your top-hamper—ah! I ...
— Rivers of Ice • R.M. Ballantyne

... have lost our quartermaster and we sail on the flood; you are quartermaster henceforth, yes. Ha—look—see, my Englishman is sick! Dowse a bucket o' water over him, then let him be ironed and take him forward to the fo'castle; he shall serve you all for sport—but no killing, mind." Thus lay I to be kicked and buffeted and half-drowned; yet when they had shackled me, cometh the man Diccon to clap me heartily on the ...
— Martin Conisby's Vengeance • Jeffery Farnol

... eye's were dim, Could tell by tasting, just the spot, And so below, he'd "dowse the glim,"— After, of course, his ...
— The American Union Speaker • John D. Philbrick



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