ROUSE
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Rouse (rouz or rous), v. 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.
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Rouse (rouz), n. [Cf. D. roes drunkeness, icel. r&ū;ss, 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.
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2. A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.
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Fill the cup, and fill the can,
Have a rouse before the morn.
Tennyson.
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Rouse, v. 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, v.] 1. To cause to start from a covert or lurking place; as, to rouse a deer or other animal of the chase.
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Like wild boars late roused out of the brakes.
Spenser.
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Rouse the fleet hart, and cheer the opening hound.
Pope.
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2. To wake from sleep or repose; as, to rouse one early or suddenly.
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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.
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To rouse up a people, the most phlegmatic of any in Christendom.
Atterbury.
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4. To put in motion; to stir up; to agitate.
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Blustering winds, which all night long
Had roused the sea.
Milton.
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5. To raise; to make erect. [Obs.] Spenser. Shak.
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Rouse, v. i. 1. To get or start up; to rise. [Obs.]
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Night's black agents to their preys do rouse.
Shak.
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2. To awake from sleep or repose.
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Morpheus rouses from his bed.
Pope.
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3. To be exited to thought or action from a state of indolence or inattention.
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