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tousenoun
a noisy disturbance
touseverb
to pull to pieces
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To Touseverb
To pull; to tear; to haul; to drag: whence touser or towzer, the name of a mastiff.
Etymology: probably of the same original with taw,teize, tose.
As a bear whom angry curs have touz’d,
Having off shak’d them and escap’d their hands,
Becomes more fell, and all that him withstands
Treads down and overthrows. Edmund Spenser.Take him hence; to th’ rack with him: we’ll towze you
Joint by joint, but we will know his purpose. William Shakespeare.To towze such things as flutter
To honest Bounce is bread and butter. Jonathan Swift.
Webster Dictionary
Touse
alt. of Touze
Tousenoun
a pulling; a disturbance
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Touse
towz, v.t. (Spens.) to pull, to tear, to tease or worry:—pr.p. tous′ing; pa.p. toused.—n. a pull: a disturbance.—n. Tous′er, one who, or that which, touses.—v.t. Tous′le (coll.), to disarrange, to tumble.—adj. Tous′y, shaggy, unkempt, tousled.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of touse in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of touse in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
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