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  • English Word Rouse Definition To excite to lively thought or action from a state of idleness, languor, stupidity, or indifference; as, to rouse the faculties, passions, or emotions.
  • English Word Rouse Definition To put in motion; to stir up; to agitate.
  • English Word Rouse Definition To raise; to make erect.
  • English Word Rouse Definition To get or start up; to rise.
  • English Word Rouse Definition To awake from sleep or repose.
  • English Word Rouse Definition To be exited to thought or action from a state of indolence or inattention.
  • English Word Roused Definition of Rouse
  • English Word Rouser Definition One who, or that which, rouses.
  • English Word Rouser Definition Something very exciting or great.
  • English Word Rouser Definition A stirrer in a copper for boiling wort.
  • English Word Rousing Definition of Rouse
  • English Word Rousing Definition Having power to awaken or excite; exciting.
  • English Word Rousing Definition Very great; violent; astounding; as, a rousing fire; a rousing lie.
  • English Word Rousingly Definition In a rousing manner.
  • English Word Roussette Definition A fruit bat, especially the large species (Pieropus vulgaris) inhabiting the islands of the Indian ocean. It measures about a yard across the expanded wings.
  • English Word Roussette Definition Any small shark of the genus Scyllium; -- called also dogfish. See Dogfish.
  • English Word Roust Definition To rouse; to disturb; as, to roust one out.
  • English Word Roust Definition A strong tide or current, especially in a narrow channel.
  • English Word Roustabout Definition A laborer, especially a deck hand, on a river steamboat, who moves the cargo, loads and unloads wood, and the like; in an opprobrious sense, a shiftless vagrant who lives by chance jobs.
  • English Word Rout Definition To roar; to bellow; to snort; to snore loudly.
  • English Word Rout Definition A bellowing; a shouting; noise; clamor; uproar; disturbance; tumult.
  • English Word Rout Definition To scoop out with a gouge or other tool; to furrow.
  • English Word Rout Definition To search or root in the ground, as a swine.
  • English Word Rout Definition A troop; a throng; a company; an assembly; especially, a traveling company or throng.
  • English Word Rout Definition A disorderly and tumultuous crowd; a mob; hence, the rabble; the herd of common people.
  • English Word Rout Definition The state of being disorganized and thrown into confusion; -- said especially of an army defeated, broken in pieces, and put to flight in disorder or panic; also, the act of defeating and breaking up an army; as, the rout of the enemy was complete.
  • English Word Rout Definition A disturbance of the peace by persons assembled together with intent to do a thing which, if executed, would make them rioters, and actually making a motion toward the executing thereof.
  • English Word Rout Definition A fashionable assembly, or large evening party.
  • English Word Rout Definition To break the ranks of, as troops, and put them to flight in disorder; to put to rout.
  • English Word Rout Definition To assemble in a crowd, whether orderly or disorderly; to collect in company.