(sous) v.t. & v.i. soused, sous·ing
1. To dip or steep in a liquid.
2. To pickle.
3. Slang To make or get drunk.
—noun
1. Pickled meats; especially, the feet and ears of swine, pickled or soused in brine; formerly, any salt pickle.
2. A plunge in water.
3. Brine.
4. Slang A drunkard; sot. [<OF sous <OHG sulza brine]

(sous) Archaic v. soused, sous·ing v.t.
To pounce upon.
—v.i. To swoop suddenly, as a hawk: with on or upon. [<noun]
—noun A swoop, as of a hawk on its prey; a downright blow or stroke.
—adverb Suddenly; with a plunge or swoop headlong; all over. [Var. of SOURCE, in earlier sense of ‘arising']