(v. t.) To plunge, or duck into water; to immerse; to douse.
(v. t.) To beat or thrash.
(v. i.) To use the dipping or divining rod, as in search of water, ore, etc.
(n.) A blow on the face.
Example Sentences:
(1) The last time central Kansas saw a good dowsing was in April last year.
(2) Ian Pearson, the Labour minister who oversaw export controls at the time, was emailed a detailed dossier about McCormick entitled "Dowsing rods endanger lives" in November of that year but his ministerial office did not reply.
(3) The devices were compared to dowsing rods and magic wands by people who used them, although their sales in Iraq and other war zones helped make McCormick a £55m fortune, and allowed him to buy a £3.5m mansion in Bath formerly owned by the actor Nicolas Cage.
(4) In January 2009, the whistleblower, who does not want to be named, sent a dossier detailing the scam that began with a hard-hitting title – "Dowsing rods endanger lives" – to James Arbuthnot, the chairman of the Commons defence select committee.
(5) If governments – dowsing sympathy for the BBC amid a welter of other cuts, playing the hardest of hardball – can blow away independence thus, what's the point of pretending that refurbishing frail defence mechanisms can put Auntie together again?
(6) After this dowsing it wouldn't be a surprise if these police were protesting for an improvement in their own working conditions.
(7) Positive responses (dowsing signals) were evoked from 14 male "dowsers" by exposure to artificial electromagnetic (ac) fields.
(8) Children are welcome to ring the bell held by the medieval figure of Jack-smite-the-clock while you inspect the damage wrought by the Suffolk-born iconoclast William "Basher" Dowsing during the civil war: he scrubbed the faces from all the finely painted apostles and saints on the rood screen.
(9) Radcliffe then added a "Yet" at the prompting of his director, Michael Dowse.
(10) Dowse sold the film as the "perfect romcom … girls will come see it and boys won't throw up in their own mouths".
Dowser
Definition:
(n.) A divining rod used in searching for water, ore, etc., a dowsing rod.
(n.) One who uses the dowser or divining rod.
Example Sentences:
(1) Positive responses (dowsing signals) were evoked from 14 male "dowsers" by exposure to artificial electromagnetic (ac) fields.
(2) Discrimination among magnetic patterns (signatures) is hypothesized to account for the apparent ability of dowsers to find specific underground substances, notably water.