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verb

Dowse v. t.

To plunge, or duck into water; to immerse; to douse.

To beat or thrash. (Prov. Eng.)

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."

noun

Dowse n. A blow on the face. (Low)

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"Dowse" Quotes from Famous Books

... Monday, 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 left me the sole ...

— Home as Found • James Fenimore Cooper

... your vittles like that for?" inquired the "Bruiser" of Sam Dowse, as that able-bodied seaman sat with his plate in his lap, eyeing it with much disfavour. "That ain't the way to look at your food, after I've been perspiring away all ...

— Many Cargoes • W.W. Jacobs

... a scheme of purchase, in which Baron Dowse was greatly interested, and I suggested that all holdings under L4 a year should be ejected at Petty Sessions, because it was a great hardship for the tenant of such a holding to have L2, ...

— The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent • S.M. Hussey

... she came, only to do the meanest chores. As 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