Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Touse"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Touse \Touse\, Touze \Touze\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Toused};
p. pr. & vb. n. {Tousing}.] [OE. tosen [root]64. See {tease},
and cf. {Tose}, {Toze}. ]
To pull; to haul; to tear; to worry. [Prov. Eng.] --Shak.
As a bear, whom angry curs have touzed. --Spenser.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Touse \Touse\, n.
A pulling; a disturbance. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
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