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1. Searching for underground water or minerals by using a dowsing rod
   - dowsing, rhabdomancy

1. Wet thoroughly
   - douse
    
2. Use a divining rod in search of underground water or metal
    
3. Slacken
   - douse
    
4. Cover with liquid; pour liquid onto
   "dowse water on his hot face";
   - drench, douse, soak, sop, souse

Derived forms: dowsed, dowsing, dowses

Type of: divination, divine, foretelling, fortune telling, remit, slacken, soothsaying, wet

Encyclopedia: Dowse, Richard