bowse, bouse
(verb) haul with a tackle
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Bouse (plural Bouses)
A surname.
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Bouse is the 22838th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1121 individuals. Bouse is most common among White (93.93%) individuals.
• Bueso
bouse (third-person singular simple present bouses, present participle bousing, simple past and past participle boused)
(nautical) To haul or hoist (something) with a tackle.
bouse (countable and uncountable, plural bouses)
(obsolete) drink, especially alcoholic drink
(obsolete) a carouse; a booze
bouse (third-person singular simple present bouses, present participle bousing, simple past and past participle boused)
(obsolete) To drink immoderately; to carouse; to booze.
• Bueso
Source: Wiktionary
Bouse, v. i.
Definition: To drink immoderately; to carouse; to booze. See Booze.
Bouse, n.
Definition: Drink, esp. alcoholic drink; also, a carouse; a booze. "A good bouse of liquor." Carlyle.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 April 2024
(adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; “a great crisis”; “had a great stake in the outcome”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.