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rouse | souse |

As a proper noun rouse

is .

As a noun souse is

something kept or steeped in brine or souse can be the act of sousing, or swooping or souse can be (label) sou (the french coin).

As a verb souse is

to immerse in liquid; to steep or drench or souse can be to strike, beat.

rouse

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) reuser, ruser, originally used in English of hawks shaking the feathers of the body. Figurative meaning "to stir up, provoke to activity" is from 1580s; that of "awaken" is first recorded 1590s.

Alternative forms

* rouze (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • an arousal
  • (military, British, and, Canada) The sounding of a bugle in the morning after reveille, to signal that soldiers are to rise from bed, often the rouse .

    • Verb

    (rous)
  • to wake or be awoken from sleep, or from apathy.
    • to rouse the faculties, passions, or emotions
  • * Atterbury
    • to rouse up a people, the most phlegmatic of any in Christendom
  • * Shakespeare
    • Night's black agents to their preys do rouse .
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Morpheus rouses from his bed.
  • (senseid) To provoke (someone) to anger or action.
  • * Milton
    • Blustering winds, which all night long / Had roused the sea.
  • To cause to start from a covert or lurking place.
    • to rouse a deer or other animal of the chase
  • * Spenser
    • Like wild boars late roused out of the brakes.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Rouse the fleet hart, and cheer the opening hound.
  • (nautical) To pull by main strength; to haul
  • (obsolete) To raise; to make erect.
    • (Spenser)
    (Shakespeare)

    Etymology 2

    From carouse, from the phrase "drink carouse" being wrongly analyzed as "drink a rouse".

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • an official ceremony over drinks
    • And the King's rouse the heaven shall bruit again,
    Re-speaking earthly thunder. - "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare, act 1 scene 2 lines 127-128
  • A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.
  • * Tennyson
    • Fill the cup, and fill the can, / Have a rouse before the morn.
  • wine or other liquor considered an inducement to mirth or drunkenness; a full glass; a bumper.

    • Anagrams

    * English ergative verbs

    souse

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something kept or steeped in brine
  • # The pickled ears, feet, etc., of swine.
  • #* (and other bibliographic details) Tusser
  • And he that can rear up a pig in his house, / Hath cheaper his bacon, and sweeter his souse .
  • ## (US, Appalachian) Pickled scrapple.
  • ## (Caribbean) Pickled or boiled ears and feet of a pig
  • # A pickle made with salt.
  • # The ear; especially, a hog's ear.
  • The act of sousing; a plunging into water.
  • A person suffering from the disease of alcoholism.
    • See also
    * (food) brawn, budin, haggis, head cheese, pudding, sausage, scrapple

    Verb

    (sous)
  • To immerse in liquid; to steep or drench.
  • * (and other bibliographic details) Addison
    • They soused me over head and ears in water.
  • * (and other bibliographic details) Gascoigne
    • although I be well soused in this shower
  • *1913 , , (Sons and Lovers) ,
  • *:As she heard him sousing heartily in cold water, heard the eager scratch of the steel comb on the side of the bowl, as he wetted his hair, she closed her eyes in disgust.

    • Derived terms

    * soused

    Etymology 2

    Obscure origin. Compare Middle German sûs (noise).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of sousing, or swooping.
  • * (and other bibliographic details) (Spenser)
    • As a falcon fair / That once hath failed or her souse full near.
  • A heavy blow.
  • * 1596 , Spencer, Fairie Queene
    • His murdrous mace he vp did reare, That seemed nought the souse thereof could beare.

    Verb

    (sous)
  • to strike, beat
  • to fall heavily
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.4:
    • Him so transfixed she before her bore / Beyond his croupe, the length of all her launce; / Till, sadly soucing on the sandy shore, / He tombled on an heape, and wallowd in his gore.
  • * (and other bibliographic details) J. Dryden. Jr.
    • Jove's bird will souse upon the tim'rous hare.
  • to pounce upon
  • * (and other bibliographic details) (Shakespeare)
    • [The gallant monarch] like eagle o'er his serie towers, / To souse annoyance that comes near his nest.

    Etymology 3

    (plural of (m)).

    Noun

  • (label) sou (the French coin)
  • (label) A small amount

    • Anagrams

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