Definition of "towze"

towze

verb
third-person singular simple present towzes, present participle towzing, simple past and past participle towzed
1. Alternative spelling of touse
  Quotations
  His tongue troules like a Mill-clack: a towzes the Lady ſiſters, as a tumbling Dog does young Rabets; […]
  c. 1635–1636 (date written), Iohn Ford [i.e., John Ford], The Fancies, Chast and Noble: […], London: […] E[lizabeth] P[urslowe] for Henry Seile, […], published 1638, Act III, page 39