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Definition of Dowsed
1. dowse [v] - See also: dowse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dowsed
Literary usage of Dowsed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions (1866)
"The said Jane Barlow, 40 years old, would be dowsed again to clear herself, but
in the great close Pond, because she said that was not enchanted as Dungeon ..."
2. Transactions by Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society (1866)
"The said Jane Barlow, 40 years old, would be dowsed again to clear herself, but
in the great close Pond, because she said that was not enchanted as Dungeon ..."
3. England and the English in the Eighteenth Century: Chapters in the Social by William Connor Sydney (1891)
"... 1709, the following circumstance :— Being St. Barnabas Festival and Whitsun
Eve, one Thomas Holmes of Horninghold, a labourer, was dowsed three times ..."
4. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1859)
"... the Publishers earnestly request that the Authors of the Poem' bearing the
following Numbers will dowsed their Menuscripts to MESSES. ..."
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