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Dowse   Listen
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Dowse  v. i.  To use the dipping or divining rod, as in search of water, ore, etc. "Adams had the reputation of having dowsed successfully for more than a hundred wells."





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"Dowse" Quotes from Famous Books



... country, not even to eat with decency, and, since she came, only to do the meanest chores. As to living with a tanner, I am no Brahmin, and believe that a man may not only live with a tanner, but be a tanner, and have all the culture, if not all the learning and the talent, of Simon's guest. Thomas Dowse pointed the way for many who will go much farther upon it than ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 4, No. 24, Oct. 1859 • Various


Words linked to "Dowse" :   divination, sop, flush, slacken, foretelling, fortune telling, brine, ret, dowsing, wet, rhabdomancy, dowser, bate, douse, bedraggle, soak, sluice


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