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Rouse

//ˈɹaʊz// name, noun, verb, slang

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Proper Noun

1
A surname.
2
A census-designated place in Stanislaus County, California, United States.
3
An unincorporated community in the town of Anderson, Iron County, Wisconsin.

Noun

1
An arousal.
2
An official ceremony over drinks.
"No jocund health that Denmark drinks to-day But the great cannon to the clouds shall tell, And the King’s rouse the heaven shall bruit again, Respeaking earthly thunder."
3
The sounding of a bugle in the morning after reveille, to signal that soldiers are to rise from bed, often the rouse. British, Canada
4
A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.
"Fill the cup, and fill the can: Have a rouse before the morn: Every minute dies a man, Every minute one is born."
5
Wine or other liquor considered an inducement to mirth or drunkenness; a full glass; a bumper.

Verb

1
To wake (someone) from sleep, or from apathy. transitive
"John Hedley was Locomotive Foreman at Beattock. He was in bed, but they roused him, and he gave orders for one of his pilot engines to go up to the summit, get Mitchell's train, and take it to Carlisle."
2
cause to become awake or conscious wordnet
3
To be awoken from sleep, or from apathy. intransitive
"Good things of day begin to droop and drowse; Night’s black agents to their preys do rouse."
4
cause to be agitated, excited, or roused wordnet
5
To cause, stir up, excite (a feeling, thought, etc.).
"to rouse the faculties, passions, or emotions"

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6
force or drive out wordnet
7
To provoke (someone) to action or anger.
"He scarce had finisht, when such murmur filld Th’ Assembly, as when hollow Rocks retain The sound of blustring winds, which all night long Had rous’d the Sea […]"
8
become active wordnet
9
To cause to start from a covert or lurking place.
"to rouse a deer or other animal of the chase"
10
To pull by main strength; to haul.
"Tom, you and the boy rouse the cable up—get about ten fathoms on deck, and bend it."
11
To raise; to make erect. obsolete
"And ouer, all with brasen scales was armd, Like plated cote of steele, so couched neare, That nought mote perce, ne might his corse bee harmd With dint of swerd, nor push of pointed speare, Which as an Eagle, seeing pray appeare, His aery plumes doth rouze, full rudely dight, So shaked he, that horror was to heare, For as the clashing of an Armor bright, Such noyse his rouzed scales did send vnto the knight."
12
To tell off; to criticise. slang
"He roused on her for being late yet again."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English rousen, from Anglo-Norman reuser, ruser, originally used in English of hawks shaking the feathers of the body, from Latin recūsō, by loss of the medial 'c.' Doublet of recuse. Figurative meaning “to stir up, provoke to activity” is from 1580s; that of “awaken” is first recorded 1590s.

Etymology 2

Etymology 3

First attested in the late 16th Century. From carouse, from rebracketing of the phrase “drink carouse” as “drink a rouse”.

Etymology 4

* As an English surname, from Middle English and Anglo-Norman rous (“red-haired”), from Latin russus. * As a German surname, Americanized from Raus. * As a northern French and Walloon surname Rousé, variant of Rosé, Rose.

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