souse

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To plunge into a liquid.
• intransitive verb To make soaking wet; drench.
• intransitive verb To steep in a mixture, as in pickling.
• intransitive verb Slang To make intoxicated.
• intransitive verb To become immersed or soaking wet.
• noun The act or process of sousing.
• noun Food steeped in pickle, especially pork trimmings.
• noun The liquid used in pickling; brine.
• noun A drunkard.
• noun A period of heavy drinking; a binge.
• intransitive verb To attack by swooping down on. Used of a bird of prey.
• intransitive verb To swoop down, as an attacking hawk does.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To steep in piekle.
• To plunge (into water or other liquid); cover or drench (with liquid).
• To pour or dash, as water.
• To swoop; rush with violence; descend with speed or headlong, as a hawk on its prey.
• To strike.
• To be diligent.
• To strike with sudden violence, as a bird strikes its prey; pounce upon.
• With a sudden plunge; with headlong descent; with violent motion downward; less correctly, with sudden violence in any direction.
• noun See sous.
• noun A pouncing down; a stoop or swoop; a swift or precipitate descent, especially for attack: as, the souse of a hawk upon its prey.
• noun A blow; a thump.
• noun A dip or plunge in the water.
• noun Pickle made with salt; sauce.
• noun Something kept or steeped in pickle; especially, the head, ears, and feet of swine pickled.
• noun The car: in contempt.
• noun In architecture, a support or underprop.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb To steep in pickle; to pickle.
• transitive verb To plunge or immerse in water or any liquid.
• transitive verb To drench, as by an immersion; to wet throughly.
• noun Pickle made with salt.
• noun Something kept or steeped in pickle; esp., the pickled ears, feet, etc., of swine.
• noun Prov. Eng. The ear; especially, a hog's ear.
• noun The act of sousing; a plunging into water.
• intransitive verb To swoop or plunge, as a bird upon its prey; to fall suddenly; to rush with speed; to make a sudden attack.
• transitive verb rare To pounce upon.
• noun The act of sousing, or swooping.
• adverb With a sudden swoop; violently.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A heavy blow.
• verb now dialectal, transitive To strike or beat.
• verb now dialectal, intransitive To fall heavily.
• noun A corrupt form of sou.
• noun A pickle made with salt.
• noun Something kept or steeped in pickle; esp., the pickled ears, feet, etc., of swine.
• noun The ear; especially, a hog's ear.
• noun US, Appalachian Pickled scrapple.
• noun A person suffering from the disease of alcoholism.