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dowse

[ UK /dˈa‍ʊz/ ]
[ US /ˈdaʊs/ ]
VERB
  1. wet thoroughly
  2. cover with liquid; pour liquid onto
    souse water on his hot face
  3. use a divining rod in search of underground water or metal
  4. slacken
    douse a rope
NOUN
  1. searching for underground water or minerals by using a dowsing rod

How To Use dowse In A Sentence

  • Dowsett is a television news reporter / anchor for KTVL, the CBS station in Medford, Oregon.
  • Outdoors in the sculpture court, local bands Atole, Tu Fawning and E*Rock, will play throughout the day and visitors can watch an expert "dowser" uncover the colors and sounds of works of art, see a demonstration of printmaking at a mobile print factory and sample specially made beer brewed to complement individual museum objects for the event by Old Lompoc, Laurelwood and Lucky Lab. KPSU - Portland's College Radio
  • So one Sunday morning soon after sunrise we entered the field and made our examinations, buried the bottles and dowsed the formation.
  • Have you got a brand-new way to dowse for the dead? Silver Zombie
  • This evening-long excursion into cinéma vérité culminated in a fistfight staged for the benefit of Dowse's camera.
  • In the 1950's, urban renewal's principal tool was the bull-dowser. Steve Poses: On the Road: Philadelphia's Neighborhood Farmers' Markets -- Headhouse
  • As for Ibiza, Dowse is clearly a hoser who is more at home in a hockey arena than at Manumission.
  • I cleaned it out, dowsed it with betadine and butterflied it myself. Can't We All Be Friends?
  • Weapons were being yanked from where they were stacked, fires hissed as they were dowsed, swords were being strapped on, others were being drawn, horses whinnied at the sudden racket. Men Don't Leave Me
  • The experts in this dowsers' society say you can successfully dowse anything at all.
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