Definition of "bouse"

bouse¹

verb
third-person singular simple present bouses, present participle bousing, simple past and past participle boused
1. (nautical) To haul or hoist (something) with a tackle.

bouse²

noun
countable and uncountable, plural bouses
1. (obsolete) drink, especially alcoholic drink
  Quotations
  Bien Darkmans then, Bouse Mort and Ken
  1665, Richard Head, The English Rogue‎, page 46
2. (obsolete) a carouse; a booze
  Quotations
  Six-and-twenty years of prison; the first seventeen years of it strict and hard, almost of the dungeon sort; the remainder, on his fairly abdicating, was in another Castle, that of Callundborg in the Island of Zealand, 'with fine apartments and conveniences,' and even 'a good bouse of liquor now and then,' at discretion of the old soul.
  1858, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II of Prussia‎, volume 1, Chapman and Hall, published 1873, page 192
verb
third-person singular simple present bouses, present participle bousing, simple past and past participle boused
1. (obsolete) To drink immoderately; to carouse; to booze.
  Quotations
  you do provide me hum enough , And lour to bouse with
  c. 1622, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger [et al.?], “Beggars Bvsh”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)