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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

... the claim he can put forward, but to render doubtful even that which he has to his own crown. I do not know in what condition the affairs of my said sister-in-law will be when you receive this letter; but I will tell you that in every case I wish you to rouse strongly the said King of Scotland, with remonstrances, and everything else which may bear on this subject, to embrace the defence and protection of his said mother, and to express to him, on my part, that as this will be a matter for which he will be greatly praised by all the other kings and ...

— CELEBRATED CRIMES, COMPLETE - MARY STUART--1587 • ALEXANDRE DUMAS, PERE

... Mr. Mivers, "it has this advantage—that while it has sufficient association with honourable distinction to affect the mind of the namesake and rouse his emulation, it is not that of so stupendous a personage as to defy rivalry. Sir Kenelm Digby was certainly an accomplished and gallant gentleman; but what with his silly superstition about sympathetic powders, etc., ...

— Kenelm Chillingly, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... One page out of my picture book I must give you. Fine burning day; half past two P.M. We four begin to rouse up from reparatory slumbers, yawn, and groan, get a cup of tea, and miserably dress: we have had a party the day before, X'mas Day, with all the boys absent but one, and latterly two; we had cooked all day long, a cold dinner, and lo! at two our guests began to arrive, though dinner was not ...

— Vailima Letters • Robert Louis Stevenson

... convoy arrives. The men seem too stiff to move, and many are carried in on soldiers' backs. The stretchers are laid on the floor, those who can "s'asseoir" sit on benches, and every man produces a "quart" or tin cup. One and all they come out of the darkness and never look about them, but rouse themselves to get fed, and stretch out poor grimy hands for bread and steaming drinks. There is very little light—only one oil-lamp, which hangs from the roof, and burns dimly. Under this we place the "marmites," and all that I can see is one brown ...

— My War Experiences in Two Continents • Sarah Macnaughtan

... consuming enjoyment they get out of them. This is on long voyages only. The mind gradually becomes inert, dull, blunted; it loses its accustomed interest in intellectual things; nothing but horse-play can rouse it, nothing but wild and foolish grotesqueries can entertain it. On short voyages it makes no such exposure of itself; it hasn't time to slump down to this ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

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