Souse

n.	1.	Pickle made with salt.
	2.	Something kept or steeped in pickle; esp., the pickled ears, feet, etc., of swine. And he that can rear up a pig in his house, Hath cheaper his bacon, and sweeter his souse. - Tusser.
	3.	The ear; especially, a hog's ear.
	4.	The act of sousing; a plunging into water.
v. t.	1.	To steep in pickle; to pickle. [imp. & p. p. Soused ; p. pr. & vb. n. Sousing.]
	2.	To plunge or immerse in water or any liquid. They soused me over head and ears in water. - Addison.
	3.	To drench, as by an immersion; to wet throughly. Although I be well soused in this shower. - Gascoigne.
v. i.	1.	To swoop or plunge, as a bird upon its prey; to fall suddenly; to rush with speed; to make a sudden attack. For then I viewed his plunge and souse Into the foamy main. - Marston. Jove's bird will souse upon the timorous hare. - J. Dryden. Jr.
v. t.	1.	To pounce upon. [The gallant monarch] like eagle o'er his serie towers, To souse annoyance that comes near his nest. - Shak.
n.	1.	The act of sousing, or swooping. As a falcon fair That once hath failed or her souse full near. - Spenser.
adv.	1.	With a sudden swoop; violently.

Noun	1.	souse - a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually Synonyms: alcoholic, alky, boozer, dipsomaniac, lush, soaker
	2.	souse - pork trimmings chopped and pickled and jelled
	3.	souse - the act of making something completely wet; "he gave it a good drenching" Synonyms: drenching, sousing, soaking
Verb	1.	souse - cover with liquid; pour liquid onto; "souse water on his hot face" Synonyms: soak, dowse, drench, sop, douse
	2.	souse - immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate; "dip the garment into the cleaning solution"; "dip the brush into the paint" Synonyms: dip, dunk, douse, plunge
	3.	souse - become drunk or drink excessively Synonyms: hit it up, inebriate, soak
	4.	souse - cook in a marinade; "souse herring"

baptism, baptize, bathe, bender, booze, booze up, boozehound, boozify, bottle sucker, brannigan, brew, brewing, bum, burial, bury, bust, chug, chug-a-lug, crock, deluge, dip, dipping, douche, douse, dousing, drench, drenching, drouk, drown, drunk, duck, ducking, dunk, dunking, elbow bender, engulf, engulfment, flush, fuddle, ginhound, hooch hound, imbrue, imbruement, imbue, imbuement, immerge, immergence, immerse, immersion, impregnate, impregnation, infiltrate, infiltration, infuse, infusion, inject, injection, inundate, inundation, jag, lave, leach, leaching, liquor, liquor up, lixiviate, lixiviation, lush, lusher, macerate, maceration, merge, overtake, overwhelm, percolate, percolation, permeate, permeation, pickle, plaster, plunge in water, pollute, pulping, raise the elbow, rinse, rum hound, rummy, saturate, saturation, seethe, seething, sink, sinking, soak, soakage, soaking, sodden, sop, sopping, sousing, sponge, steep, steeping, stew, stone, submerge, submergence, submerse, submersion, swack, swig, swill, swillbelly, swillbowl, swillpot, tank up, tear, tipsify, wash, waterlog, wet, whelm, wino