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souse (medicine) and dart(1) (iou)


souse (medicine)


souse


To swoop or plunge, as a bird upon its prey; to fall suddenly; to rush with speed; to make a sudden attack. "For then I viewed his plunge and souse Into the foamy main." (Marston) "Jove's bird will souse upon the timorous hare." (J. Dryden. Jr)

Origin: Probably fr. OF. Sors, p.p. Of sordre to rise, and first used of an upward swood, then of a swoop in General, but also confused with Souse, See Source.

Source: Websters Dictionary


dart(1) (iou)



dart noun. [d¨»:t] ME.
[Old French (mod. dard), accus. of darz, dars, from Frankish = spear, lance, repr. by Old English daroT, Old High German tart, Old Norse darraer; in senses 2 and 4 from the verb.]
A small pointed missile shot or thrown as a weapon; poet. an arrow. ME.
CUPID's dart. heart and dart: see HEART noun.
transf. & fig.: W. M. Praed The lightning's vivid dart. E. Blunden Shrapnel shells, uncoiling their..smoke downwards while their white-hot darts scoured the acre below.
b. A small pointed missile, usu. with a feather or plastic flight, thrown at a target in a game; in pl., the indoor game played with such missiles and a circular target. E20.
In full dart-snake, dart-serpent. A snake or snakelike lizard with characteristic darting movements. L16-M19.
An animal organ resembling a dart in shape or function; spec. (a) (now only poet.) the sting of a venomous insect etc.; (b) a calcareous pointed organ in some gastropods forming part of the reproductive system. M17.
An act of darting; a sudden rapid movement. E18.
A. Trollope She..prepared herself for a dart at the door.
In full dart-moth. Any of a large group of noctuid moths, most having dart-shaped markings on their wings. E19.
A plan, a scheme; a good idea; a fancy; a favourite. slang (chiefly Austral.). Now rare. M19.
Dressmaking. A stitched tapered tuck for shaping a garment. L19.
Comb.: dartboard a circular target with numbered sectors used in the game of darts; dartman a soldier armed with darts; dart-moth: see sense 5 above; dart-sac a hollow organ in some gastropods, secreting the reproductive dart; dart-serpent, dart-snake: see sense 2 above.