souce

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saʊs/

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• Rhymes: -aʊs

Verb

souce (third-person singular simple present souces, present participle soucing, simple past and past participle souced)

1. Obsolete form of souse.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     sadly soucing on the sandy shore ,
     He tombled on an heape

Noun

souce (plural souces)

1. Obsolete form of souse.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     With dreadfull force he flies at her bylive ,
     That with his souce , which none enduren dare

References

• “souce”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Coeus, Sueco-, oecus