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rouse¹
- /ɹaʊz/ US, UK
Sounds like rows (noisy arguments) · Rhymes with -aʊz
Where it comes from
The verb is derived from Late Middle English rousen (“of a hawk: to shake its feathers”); further etymology unknown. Because many terms of French origin are used in falconry, it has been assumed that the Middle English word is derived from Anglo-Norman or French; however, no satisfactory etymon has been found. The following words have been suggested, but are thought by the Oxford English Dictionary to be unlikely due to the differences in meaning:
* Anglo-Norman rëuser, roser, ruser, russer, Middle French ruser, and Old French rëuser (“to drive back, repulse”) (modern French ruser).
* An Old Norse word from which Danish ruse (“to hurry, rush”) and Swedish rusa (“to hurry, rush”) are derived.
Compare row (“quarrel”), possibly related to or derived from this word.
The noun is derived from the verb.
verb rouses · rousing · roused · rouse
- To cause (something) to be (more) active or to move; to agitate, to stir up. Thee water is rowſed, they [two serpents] do friſke with floũce [flounce] to yͤ ſhoare ward, / Thee land with ſtaring eyes bluddy and firie beholding: […]
- To stir (a liquid, especially (brewing) beer in the brewing process).
- To provoke (someone) to react (for example, in anger or annoyance); to spur; also, to annoy, to tease. This day is called the day of Cryſpin, / He that outliues this day, and ſees old age, / Shall ſtand a tiptoe vvhen this day is named, / And rovvſe him at the name of Cryſpin.
- Originally chiefly followed by up: to cause (an emotional reaction, a feeling, etc.); to excite, to incite, to stir up. to rouse the emotions or passions
- Sometimes followed by up: to disturb (someone) from a state of apathy, comfort, etc. But it [trial by jury] needs only to be minutely examined, and properly valued, to rouze the nation to preſerve it unimpaired, for the benefit of the preſent generation, and that vve may tranſmit it to poſterity uncontaminated and undiminiſhed.
- Sometimes followed by up: to wake (oneself or someone) from deep thought, or rest or sleep; to awaken. VVhen vve be brought to this point that vve muſt be fayne to looke vnto God: vve begin after a ſort too rouze vp ourſelues, ſo as vvee be no more ſo careleſſe and drovvzie as vvee vvere: […]
- To lift up or raise (someone; or something, especially the head). [S]he caſt her dewed eyes aſ kance, / And ſpying me, gan rovvſe her heauie head, / And praide me pen her ſad and heauie chance, / And ſhe recounted it that preſent ſted, […]
- Sometimes followed by up: to cause (oneself) to be active or alert; to incite, to stir; also, to cause (oneself) to carry out a task, take action, etc. [A] puiſſant olyphant being brought to the place, the grehound ſeming to reioice at the greatnes of the beaſt, rouſed him, and after two or three queſtynges, he lept to the great Olyphante, and after a longe fight ouerthrew hym and kylled hym. So I doubt not but that ſome men […] whiche beeyng ones
- Of a hawk: to shake (its own) feathers. Ill huſbandry drowſeth at fortune ſo awke, / good huſbandry rowſeth him ſelfe like a hawke.
- Of a person: to stretch (one's own) body.
- Chiefly of a bird: to cause (its crest, feathers, etc.) to become stiff or to stand up. And ouer, all vvith braſen ſcales vvas armd, / Like plated cote of ſteele, so couched neare, / That nought mote perce, ne might his corſe bee harmd / VVith dint of ſvverd, nor puſh of pointed ſpeare, / VVhich as an Eagle, ſeeing pray appeare, / His aery plumes doth rouze, full rudely dight, / So ſha
- To disturb (someone's sleep). [F]orthvvith from all VVindes / The living, and forthvvith the cited dead / Of all paſt Ages to the general Doom / Shall haſt'n ſuch a peal ſhall rouſe thir ſleep.
- To cause (game) to emerge from cover. to rouse a deer or other animal of the chase
- To pull (a cable, rope, etc.) in a specified direction, especially to tighten it; to haul. Tom, you and the boy rouse the cable up—get about ten fathoms on deck, and bend it.
- Sometimes followed by up: to carry out a task, take action, etc. Hubba [Ubba], that had harried the Engliſh, and now rovvzed vpon the nevves of King Elfreds victory and life; vvith thirty three ſhips ſailed from VVales, […]
- Sometimes followed by up: to wake from deep thought, or rest or sleep; to awaken. Good things of Day begin to droope, and drovvſe; / VVhiles Nights black Agents to their Prey's doe rovvſe.
- Sometimes followed by up: of a characteristic or emotion: to be stirred up or to become stronger. But he though blind of ſight, / Deſpis'd and thought extinguiſh't quite, / VVith invvard eyes illuminated / His fierie vertue rouz'd / From under aſhes into ſudden flame, […]
- Of a hawk, or (generally) some other bird: to shake its feathers. And in the euening when daylight beginneth to faile, take off hir hood amongſt company of people by the candlelight vntill ſhe rowze and mewte, […]
- To move quickly; to rush. [A] king he placed, through whose Maieſtical Empyre / Theeſe blaſts rouze forward, or back by his regal apointment.
- Of hair: to stand on end; to bristle. [M]y Fell of haire / VVould at a diſmall Treatiſe rovvze, and ſtirre / As life vvere in't.
- Sometimes followed by up: of game: to emerge from cover.
noun rouses
- An act of causing something to be (more) active or to move; a shakeup, a stir; also (chiefly US), a commotion, a disturbance. At supper my grandfather took command of the table d'hôte as though he had been at home; […] In fact, he revolutionized the whole establishment, and gave it such a rouse, that the very house reeled with it.
- Chiefly of a hawk: an act of shaking the feathers. [K]ing Antiochus, vvho likened Hermogenes the famous Orator of Greece, vnto theſe fovvles in their moulting time, vvhen their feathers be ſick, and be ſo loaſe in the fleſh that at any little rovvſe they can eaſilie ſhake them off: ſo ſaith he, can Hermogenes of all the men that euer I knevv, as eaſ
- Often in the form Rouse and preceded by the: the sounding of a call, usually on the bugle in the morning after reveille, to signal that soldiers are to rise from bed; also, the reveille. Thus many a high-plumed gallant rear'd his head, / And proudly smote the ground with firmer tread, / Who did, ere close of ev'ning, lye / With ghastly face turn'd to the sky, / No more again the rouse of war to hear.
rouse²
- /ɹaʊz/ US, UK
Sounds like rows (noisy arguments) · Rhymes with -aʊz
Where it comes from
Probably from carouse (“(obsolete) of drinking a cup of an alcoholic beverage: to the bottom”, adverb), from a rebracketing of the phrase drink carouse as drink a rouse. Carouse is derived from German gar aus (“all out”), as in gar-aus trinken (“to drink all out; to drink to the bottom”).
noun rouses · rowse
- A full or large cup or glass of an alcoholic beverage, especially when drunk as a toast; a bumper. to give a rouse to take one’s rouse
- A social gathering at which alcoholic beverages are drunk; a drinking bout or party; a carousal. No iocond health that Denmarke drinkes to day, / But the great Cannon to the cloudes ſhall tell. / And the Kings rovvſe the heauen ſhall brute againe, / Reſpeaking earthly thunder; come avvay.
rouse³
- /ɹaʊs/ US, UK
- /ɹæɔs/ Australia
Rhymes with -aʊs
Where it comes from
Origin uncertain, possibly a variant of one of the following:
* From rouse (“to provoke (someone) to react (for example, in anger or annoyance); to cause (an emotional reaction, a feeling, etc.); and other senses”) (see etymology 1; and compare Scots rouse (“to become agitated, enraged, or excited, to grow angry”)).
* From roust (“(Scotland, archaic) to roar, shout”), from Scots roust, rowst (“to roar, shout”), possibly related to Old Norse raust (“voice”, noun).
verb rouses · rousing · roused
- Followed by at, on, etc.: to criticize severely; to tell off. He roused on her for being late yet again.
rouse⁴
- /ɹaʊz/ US, UK
Sounds like rows (noisy arguments) · Rhymes with -aʊz
Where it comes from
An aphetic form of arrouse (“(obsolete) to sprinkle (something) with water or some other liquid; of a river, sea, etc.: to provide (land) with water”), from Late Middle English arouse, arrouse, arowse, arrowse, from Anglo-Norman arouser, aruser, Middle French arouser, arrouser, and Old French aroser (“to sprinkle (something) with water or some other liquid; to make (something) wet, soak”) (modern French arroser), from Late Latin *arrosare, from Latin arrōrāre, adrōrāre, the present active infinitives of arrōrō, adrōrō (“to bedew; to besprinkle, moisten”), from ad- (prefix meaning ‘to, towards’) + rōrō (“to be moist; to drip, trickle”). Rōrō is derived from rōr- (the oblique stem of rōs (“dew; moisture”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rṓs (“dew; liquid, moisture”), possibly from *h₁ers- (“to flow”)) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs). Compare Scots rouse (“to sprinkle salt on (fish) in the process of curing; to sprinkle water on (something)”).
verb rouses · rousing · roused
- To sprinkle salt on (fish, especially herring) in the process of curing; to salt. The proceſs of curing red herrings is in the follovving manner: VVhen they are brought from the boats or veſſels, to the cloſe or cellar, they are rouſed vvith ſalt, great or ſmall, according as they are meant to be cured for exportation, or home conſumption.
rouse⁵
- /ɹaʊz/ US, UK
Sounds like rows (noisy arguments) · Rhymes with -aʊz
Where it comes from
From Late Middle English rous, rouse (“(adjective) red-haired; (noun) person with red hair”), from Anglo-Norman rous, rus, and Middle French rous, roux (“red-haired, chiefly used to describe William II of England”), from Old French ros (“(uncertain) red-faced; red-haired”) (modern French roux), from Latin russus (“red; red-haired”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ- (“red”). Doublet of red.
adjective more rouse · most rouse
- Used as an epithet for a person: having red hair; red-haired, redheaded. [C]ompare his [Henry I of England's] lyfe with his two bretherne, william, called Rouſe [William II of England], and Robert le courtoiſe [Robert Curthose], they both nat hauyng ſẽblable [semblable] lernyng with the ſayd Henry, […]
rouse⁶
- /ɹaʊz/ US, UK
Sounds like rows (noisy arguments) · Rhymes with -aʊz
Where it comes from
Origin unknown.
verb rouses · rousing · roused · rouze
- To cause (something) to rest or settle. [T]he maiſter of the houſe began to rouſe his ſhoulders in a rich chaire, […]
- To rest or settle. After that, I was caryed to my Lordes Colehouſe agayne, where I with my ſyxe fellowes do rouſe together in the ſtraw, as chere fullye (wee thanke God) as other doo in theyr beds of downe.
Rouse⁷
Where it comes from
* 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.
proper noun Rowse
- A surname.
- A census-designated place in Stanislaus County, California, United States.
- An unincorporated community in the town of Anderson, Iron County, Wisconsin.
