Definify.com

Webster 1913 Edition

Rouse

Rouse

(rouz or rous)
,
Verb.
I.
&
T.
[Perhaps the same word as
rouse
to start up, “buckle to.”]
(Naut.)
To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.

Rouse

(rouz)
,
Noun.
[Cf. D.
roes
drunkeness, icel.
rūss
, Sw.
rus
, G.
rauchen
, and also E.
rouse
, v.t.,
rush
, v.i. Cf.
Row
a disturbance.]
1.
A bumper in honor of a toast or 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.

Rouse

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Roused
(rouzd)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Rousing
.]
[Probably of Scan. origin; cf. Sw.
rusa
to rush, Dan.
ruse
, AS.
hreósan
to fall, rush. Cf.
Rush
,
Verb.
]
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.
Spenser.
Rouse
the fleet hart, and cheer the opening hound.
Pope.
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.
Atterbury.
4.
To put in motion; to stir up; to agitate.
Blustering winds, which all night long
Had
roused
the sea.
Milton.
5.
To raise; to make erect.
[Obs.]
Spenser. Shak.

Rouse

,
Verb.
I.
1.
To get or start up; to rise.
[Obs.]
Night’s black agents to their preys do
rouse
.
Shakespeare
2.
To awake from sleep or repose.
Morpheus
rouses
from his bed.
Pope.
3.
To be exited to thought or action from a state of indolence or inattention.

Webster 1828 Edition

Rouse

ROUSE

,
Verb.
T.
rouz. [This word, written also arouse, seems to belong to the family of raise or rush. See Raise.]
1.
To wake from sleep or repose. Gen. 49.
2.
To excite to thought or action from a state of idleness, languor, stupidity or inattention.
3.
To put into action; to agitate.
Blust'ring winds that rous'd the sea.
4.
To drive a beast from his den or place of rest.

ROUSE

, v.i.
1.
To awake from sleep or repose.
Morpheus rouses from his bed.
2.
To be excited to thought or action from a state of indolence, sluggishness, languor or inattention.

ROUSE

,
Verb.
I.
In seamen's language, to pull together upon a cable, &c. without the assistance of tackles or other mechanical power.

ROUSE

,
Noun.
rouz.
A full glass of liquor; a bumper in honor of a health. Obs.

Similar Results