roused English
Verb
(head)
(rouse)
Anagrams
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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.
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- (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.
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sudbued Not English Sudbued has no English definition. It may be misspelled.
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