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Rouse   /raʊs/  /raʊz/   Listen
verb
Rouse  v. i. & v. t.  (Naut.) To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.


Rouse  v. t.  (past & past part. roused; pres. part. rousing)  
1.
To cause to start from a covert or lurking place; as, to rouse a deer or other animal of the chase. "Like wild boars late roused out of the brakes." "Rouse the fleet hart, and cheer the opening hound."
2.
To wake from sleep or repose; as, to rouse one early or suddenly.
3.
To excite to lively thought or action from a state of idleness, languor, stupidity, or indifference; as, to rouse the faculties, passions, or emotions. "To rouse up a people, the most phlegmatic of any in Christendom."
4.
To put in motion; to stir up; to agitate. "Blustering winds, which all night long Had roused the sea."
5.
To raise; to make erect. (Obs.)


Rouse  v. i.  
1.
To get or start up; to rise. (Obs.) "Night's black agents to their preys do rouse."
2.
To awake from sleep or repose. "Morpheus rouses from his bed."
3.
To be exited to thought or action from a state of indolence or inattention.


noun
Rouse  n.  
1.
A bumper in honor of a toast or health. (Obs.)
2.
A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic. "Fill the cup, and fill the can, Have a rouse before the morn."





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"Rouse" Quotes from Famous Books



... strong-minded, and therefore easily led by others who possessed greater power of will. Being overcome with wine, he engaged in a street-brawl, for which he was suspended by Othello, but Desdemona pleaded for his restoration. Iago made capital of this intercession to rouse the jealousy of the Moor. Cassio's "almost" wife was ...
— Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol 1 - A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook • The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D.
... only divots in the window in the bochan. 'He will that,' says I, and I saw the divots tumbling, and in he came assourying wi' two o' us, and us feart when he gied his great nicker o' a laugh, for fear he would be awakening the old folks, or rouse the dogs, although they kent him well enough, a rake ...
— The McBrides - A Romance of Arran • John Sillars
... "Come, my friend, rouse yourself—this is weakness; you are tired with the long ride and excitement of the past few days. Come, go home—I will look ...
— Among the Pines - or, South in Secession Time • James R. Gilmore
... yon fearsome chamber; but, as I heard when I sat at the hoard with mine uncle and that wicked man, they had scarce laid hands upon him, to bend his spirit to their will through their hellish devices, before he fell into a deep swoon from which they could not rouse him; and afraid that he would escape their malice by a merciful death, and that they would lose the very vengeance they had taken such pains to win, they took him back to his cell; and there he lies, tended not unskilfully ...
— In the Days of Chivalry • Evelyn Everett-Green
... to rouse, and sat up, two rosy-cheeked youngsters with eyes still drowsy with sleep, but which opened widely enough ...
— The Beggar Man • Ruby Mildred Ayres


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