Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.

Touse \Touse\, n.
   A pulling; a disturbance. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.