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Webster 1913 Edition
Reveille
Re-veil′le
,Noun.
[F.
réveil
, fr. réveiller
to awake; pref. re-
re- + pref. es-
(L. ex
) + veiller
to awake, watch, L. vigilare
to watch. The English form was prob. taken by mistake from the French imper. réveillez
,2d
pers. pl. See Vigil
.] (Mil.)
The beat of drum, or bugle blast, about break of day, to give notice that it is time for the soldiers to rise, and for the sentinels to forbear challenging.
“Sound a reveille.” Dryden.
For at dawning to assail ye
Here no bugles sound
Here no bugles sound
reveille
. Sir W. Scott.