▪ I.ˈbousing,vbl.n.[f.bouse v.1 + -ing1.]1.Deep drinking, guzzling, tippling.a1529SkeltonImage Hypocr. iv. 583How they iest and iell, With bowsing and bollinge.
1567HarmanCaveat 23The buriall was turned to bousing and belly chere.
1641HindeJ. Bruen iv. 15They..have[not]any skill in any arts but of..bowzing and drinking.
2.Falconry. (Seequots.)1575Turberv.Falconrie 243By bouzing..you shall have evident proofe and undoubted shewe of his disease.
1615LathamFalconryGloss.,Bousing is when a Hawke drinketh often, and seemes to be continually thirstie.
3.attrib., as bousing-bout, bousing-can, bousing-den, bousing-house, bousing-inn; †bousing ken (Thieves' slang), a low ale-house.1596SpenserF.Q. i. iv. 22In his hand did bear a bouzing can.
1594NasheUnfort.Trav.Wks.(Grosart) V. 68Their houghs & bousing houses, which commonly are built fayrer than their Churches.
1561J. AwdelayFrat. Vacab. 3The Alehouse, whych they call the Bowzyng In.
1567HarmanCaveat 83A bousing ken, a ale house.
1652BromeJov. Crew ii.Wks.1873 III. 390As Tom or Tib..When they at Bowsing Ken do swill.
▪ II.ˈbousing,ppl.a.[f.asprec.+ -ing2.]That bouses; given to immoderate drinking; tippling.1569Turberv.Epit.&Sonn.(1837) 331As Circes cup no sooner might the bowsing Greekes beguile.
1589Hay any Work 33Dumbe Johns bousing mates.
a1659ClevelandInund. of Trent 49With a file of bowzing Comrades.
