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- verb Present participle of
sowse .
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Examples
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And when it hath stood three hours in your oven, then put it in your sowsing-drink as is aforesaid; and you may keep it a quarter of a year, if it be kept close.
The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened Kenelm Digby 1634
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Then beat a couple of Nutmegs, and put them into the sowsing-drink; then Lard it.
The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened Kenelm Digby 1634
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Take a piece of the Buttock of Beef, the leanest of it, and beat it with a rowling-pin the space of an hour, till you think you have broken the grain of it, and have made it very open both to receive the sowsing-drink, and also to make it tender.
The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened Kenelm Digby 1634
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