bouse

present singular third person bouses · participle present bousing · participle past boused · past boused · alternative bowse

1. nauticalTo haul or hoist (something) with a tackle.

plural bouses

1. countableobsoleteuncountableto drink, especially alcoholic drink

   Bien Darkmans then, Bouse Mort and Ken

   1665, Richard Head, The English Rogue, page 46

2. countableobsoleteuncountablea carouse; a booze

   1 more example

   Six-and-twenty years of prison; the first seventeen years of it strict and hard, almost of the dungeon sort; the remainder, on his fairly abdicating, was in another Castle, that of Callundborg in the Island of Zealand, 'with fine apartments and conveniences,' and even 'a good bouse of liquor now and then,' at discretion of the old soul.

   1858, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II of Prussia, volume 1, Chapman and Hall, published 1873, page 192

present singular third person bouses · participle present bousing · participle past boused · past boused

1. obsoleteTo drink immoderately; to carouse; to booze.

   you do provide me hum enough , And lour to bouse with

   c. 1622, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger [et al.?], “Beggars Bush”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)

plural Bouses

1. countableuncountableA surname.
2. countableuncountableA census-designated place in La Paz County, Arizona, United States, believed to be named after Thomas Bouse.