Definition of "touse"

touse

verb
third-person singular simple present touses, present participle tousing, simple past and past participle toused
1. (transitive) To rumple, tousle.
2. (transitive) To pull to pieces.
  Quotations
  His tongue troules like a Mill-clack: a towzes the Lady ſiſters, as a tumbling Dog does young Rabets; […]
  c. 1635–1636 (date written), Iohn Ford [i.e., John Ford], The Fancies, Chast and Noble: […], London: […] E[lizabeth] P[urslowe] for Henry Seile, […], published 1638, Act III, page 39
  How did he like it when the live creatures / Tickled and toused and browsed him all over, / And worm, slug, eft, with serious features / Came in, each one, for his right of trover?
  1844, Robert Browning, "Garden Fancies," II. Sibrandus Schafnaburgennis
noun
plural touses
1. a noisy disturbance

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