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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.

adjective

Rousing adj.

Having power to awaken or excite; exciting. "I begin to feel Some rousing motions in me."

Very great; violent; astounding; as, a rousing fire; a rousing lie. (Colloq.)

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Etymology of 'Rousing'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Rousing" Quotes from Famous Books

... horse up with both hands on his mouth is easier to the jockey than using the whip, and more effective in rousing the horse to his ...

— Hints on Horsemanship, to a Nephew and Niece - or, Common Sense and Common Errors in Common Riding • George Greenwood

... cocoa-palms along the shore, the narrow stream and bridge, and the quaint red-tiled roofs of the town, is very charming and harmonious; yet I often think, if these dreamy days went on into months, that I should welcome an earthquake shock, or tornado, or jarring discord of some rousing kind, to break the dream produced by the heated, steamy, fragrant air, and the ...

— The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither • Isabella L. Bird (Mrs. Bishop)

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— The Ethical Engineer • Henry Maxwell Dempsey

... for the "purchase and distribution of daily necessities," but one of its objects is "the maintenance of public morality." Then there is the students' association which has literary and gymnastic sides, the one side "to refine wisdom and virtue," the other "for the rousing of spirit." Mention may also be made of a "discipline calendar" of fixed memorial days and ceremonies "that all the students should observe": the ceremony of reading the Imperial Rescript on education, thrift and morality, and the ceremonies at the end of rice planting, at harvest and at the ...

— The Foundations of Japan • J.W. Robertson Scott

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— A New Illustrated Edition of J. S. Rarey's Art of Taming Horses • J. S. Rarey

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