Part 422

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, 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.

Rous"er (?), n. 1. One who, or that which, rouses.

2. Something very exciting or great. [Colloq.]

3. (Brewing) A stirrer in a copper for boiling wort.

Rous"ing (?), a. 1. Having power to awaken or excite; exciting.

I begin to feel Some rousing motions in me.

Milton.

2. Very great; violent; astounding; as, a rousing fire; a rousing lie. [Colloq.]

Rous"ing*ly, adv. In a rousing manner.

Rous*sette" (?), n. [F.; -- so called in allusion to the color. See Russet.] 1. (Zoöl.) A fruit bat, especially the large species (Pieropus vulgaris) inhabiting the islands of the Indian ocean. It measures about a yard across the expanded wings.

2. (Zoöl.) Any small shark of the genus Scyllium; -- called also dogfish. See Dogfish.

Roust (roust), v. t. To rouse; to disturb; as, to roust one out. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U.S.]