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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Rouse

Rouse, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. ROUSED; p. pr. & vb. n. ROUSING.] [A-S. râsian, ārāsian. See RAISE and AROUSE.]

  1. To wake from sleep or repose; as, to rouse one early, or suddenly.
  2. To excite to lively thought or action from a state of idleness, languor, stupidity, or inattention. “To rouse up a people the most phlegmatic of any in Christendom.” Atterbury.
  3. To awaken into activity, as the attention, or some passion, emotion, or faculty.
  4. To put into motion: to agitate. “Blustering winds that roused the sea.” Milton.
  5. To startle or surprise.

Rouse the fleet hart, and cheer the opening hound. Pope.

Rouse, v. i.

verbintransitive
  1. To awake from sleep or repose. Morpheus rouses from his bed. Pope.
  2. To be excited to thought or action from a state of indolence or inattention.

Rouse, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. (Naut.) To pull together upon a cable, &c., without the assistance of tackles, or other mechanical power. Totten.

Rouse, n.

noun

n. [D. roes, Icel. råss, Sw. rūs, L. Ger. rāsĕ, N. H. Ger. rausch, Icel. råssa, to get drunk. Cf. H. Ger. rauschen, L. Ger. rāsken, Sw. räsa, D. rüschen, to rush, to rustle.]

  1. A bumper in honor of a health. [Obs.] Shak.
  2. A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.

Fill the cup, and fill the can, Have a rouse before the morn. Tennyson.