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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)

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."

To wake from sleep or repose; as, to rouse one early or suddenly.

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."

To put in motion; to stir up; to agitate. "Blustering winds, which all night long Had roused the sea."

To raise; to make erect. (Obs.)

Rouse v. i.

To get or start up; to rise. (Obs.) "Night's black agents to their preys do rouse."

To awake from sleep or repose. "Morpheus rouses from his bed."

To be exited to thought or action from a state of indolence or inattention.

noun

Rouse n.

A bumper in honor of a toast or health. (Obs.)

A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic. "Fill the cup, and fill the can, Have a rouse before the morn."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Rouse" Quotes from Famous Books

... of heroes! in our need One gift from Heaven we crave To stanch these wounds that vainly bleed,— The wise to lead the brave! Call back one Captain of thy past From glory's marble trance, Whose name shall be a bugle-blast To rouse us! VIVE LA FRANCE! ...

— The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Complete • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

... feet lagged as he walked, how the colour had faded from his hair and from the bright blue eyes, which had been such a noticeable feature of his face. All the life and fun had gone out of him too; even Jessie could not rouse him. ...

— The Story of Jessie • Mabel Quiller-Couch

... the Lord of war! From me, Joshua, the servant of God, and from the holy and chosen congregation to the impious nations, who pay worship to images, and prostrate themselves before idols: No peace unto you, saith my God! Know that ye acted foolishly to awaken the slumbering lion, to rouse up the lion's whelp, to excite his wrath. I am ready to pay you your recompense. Be ye prepared to meet me, for within a week I shall be with you to slay your warriors to ...

— THE LEGENDS OF THE JEWS VOLUME IV BIBLE TIMES AND CHARACTERS - FROM THE EXODUS TO THE DEATH OF MOSES • BY LOUIS GINZBERG

... snow that hung on the boughs around me, would shock the wizened old bachelor with her worldliness—a worldliness that lay only in the use of current worldly phrases of selfish contentment, or selfish care. Ah! how little do young beauties understand of the pitiful emotions which they sometimes rouse in the breasts of men whom they suppose to be absorbed in admiration of them! But for faith that these girls are God's work and only half made yet, one would turn from them with sadness, almost painful dislike, and take refuge with some noble-faced grandmother, or withered old maid, ...

— Adela Cathcart, Vol. 3 • George MacDonald

... call When stinging gnats, unseen, do us assail; A warring instinct urges us to kill, And we delay not, till Dame Reason speaks. 'Twas but an automatic action of the mind When matter trivial late did rouse a phlegm Within my soul, which irritated sore, And on the instant I did stern resolve That, like the surgeon when an abscess ripe Action demands with operating knife, To sever bonds politic which did fast Within my family executive Hold Seldonskip and bid him ...

— 'A Comedy of Errors' in Seven Acts • Spokeshave (AKA Old Fogy)

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