Bowssen

Bows´sen

v. t.

To drench; to soak; especially, to immerse (in water believed to have curative properties).

There were many bowssening places, for curing of mad men.
. . . If there appeared small amendment he was bowssened again and again.

- Carew.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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