Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as booze.
  • To duck; immerse (especially in a holy well, as for the cure of madness). See extract.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To drench; to soak; especially, to immerse (in water believed to have curative properties).

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb obsolete To drench; to soak; to immerse (in water believed to have curative properties).

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