Rouse \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.
Rouse \Rouse\ (rouz), n. [Cf. D. roes drunkeness, icel. r[=u]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.
2. A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.
Fill the cup, and fill the can, Have a rouse before the morn. --Tennyson.
Rouse \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. hre['o]san 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.
Like wild boars late roused out of the brakes. --Spenser.
Rouse the fleet hart, and cheer the opening hound. --Pope.
2. To wake from sleep or repose; as, to rouse one early or suddenly.
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.
To rouse up a people, the most phlegmatic of any in Christendom. --Atterbury.
4. To put in motion; to stir up; to agitate.
Blustering winds, which all night long Had roused the sea. --Milton.
5. To raise; to make erect. [Obs.] --Spenser. Shak.
Rouse \Rouse\, v. i. 1. To get or start up; to rise. [Obs.]
Night's black agents to their preys do rouse. --Shak.
2. To awake from sleep or repose.
Morpheus rouses from his bed. --Pope.
3. To be exited to thought or action from a state of indolence or inattention.
They play with wooden rattles, once used by watchmen to rouse neighbors in the event of a fire, and learn that a strange-looking piece of iron is a bed key, actually a critical firefighting tool.
In more common scenarios, the warning would rouse sleepy drivers if they veered off the road or zoomed up on a slow-moving truck.
But a torched effigy of China's most famous dissident and slogans supporting Premier Li Peng's hard-line policies failed to rouse the 4,000 people who attended the rally 20 miles outside Beijing.
Some parents rouse their children at 5:30 a.m., deposit them in the car in their pajamas so they can continue to sleep and then feed them breakfast when they finally arrive at school.
But, given that the party is in hock to the tune of Pounds 19m, it was a case of all hands on deck to rouse the party faithful. So how odd to find Lord Archer no longer running the raffle.
Thus U.S. warnings about a Soviet menace rouse little support for keeping bases intact.
It's called "Direct Mail" And it doesn't fail To rouse my suspicious doubt.
The intense publicity, the fight over secret documents, the legal dilemmas posed at the trial of Oliver North rouse memories of a celebrated Watergate trial at which U.S. District Judge Gerhard Gesell also presided.
Pain, according to Lewis, "is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world."
If I slept, I knew I would not rouse by 3am to reach the Overlander Roadhouse for the Greyhound, which hurtles through the night like a mobile dor mitory. Rod Drummond knew the local cure for flagging spirits.
Few political analysts took the president at his word when he sought to rouse the faithful last week at a Washington meeting of the Conservative Political Action Committee.
He downplayed his views on trade and immigration when they failed to rouse audiences.