Bouse

• POS: Verb (transitive)

CIDE DICTIONARY

Bouse, v. i. 

 To drink immoderately; to carouse; to booze. See Booze.  [1913 Webster]

Bouse, n. 

 Drink, esp. alcoholic drink; also, a carouse; a booze.  Carlyle.  [1913 Webster]

ROGET THESAURUS

Bouse

Drunkenness

VB get drunk, be drunk, see double, take a drop too much, take a glass too much, drink, tipple, tope, booze, bouse, guzzle, swill, soak, sot, bum, besot, have a jag on, have a buzz on, lush, bib, swig, carouse, sacrifice at the shrine of Bacchus, take to drinking, drink hard, drink deep, drink like a fish, have one's swill, drain the cup, splice the main brace, take a hair of the dog that bit you, liquor, liquor up, wet one's whistle, take a whet, crack a bottle, pass the bottle, toss off, go to the alehouse, go to the public house, make one drunk, inebriate, fuddle, befuddle, fuzzle, get into one's head.