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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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"Rouse" Quotes from Famous Books

... heavenly presence (Rev 6:14-17). There shall therefore, that this may be brought to pass, be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust. For though an opinion of no resurrection may now lull men asleep, in security and impiety, yet the Lord when he comes will rouse them, and cause them to awake; not only out of their security, but out of their graves, to their doom, that they may receive for their error, the recompense that ...

— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan

... not flatter yourself that I came to you in search of ideas. I venture to break upon your sulky meditations in the cause of friendship alone. If you will rouse yourself and walk to the window you may enrich your sterile mind with an idea, possibly with ideas. Miss Penrhyn will pass ...

— What Dreams May Come • Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

... for summer, the other for winter. In the one case you start out with a friend along about eleven o'clock' on a summer's night (not later, because in some states —especially in California and Oregon—chickens always rouse up just at midnight and crow from ten to thirty minutes, according to the ease or difficulty they experience in getting the public waked up), and your friend carries with him a sack. Arrived at the henroost ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... these passes afforded obvious points of defence; and the Spaniards, as they entered the rocky defiles, looked with apprehension lest they might rouse some foe from his ambush. This apprehension was heightened, as, at the summit of a steep and narrow gorge, in which they were engaged, they beheld a strong work, rising like a fortress, and frowning, as it were, in gloomy defiance on the invaders. As they drew ...

— The History Of The Conquest Of Peru • William H. Prescott

... blue eyes express lazy good-nature, sluggish stubbornness, dormant fierceness. They ask the news in soft, lisping Dutch that might be a woman's; but the lazy imperiousness of their bearing stamps them as free men. A people hard to rouse, you say—and as ...

— From Capetown to Ladysmith - An Unfinished Record of the South African War • G. W. Steevens

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