rouse

verb

stir up

Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈɹaʊz/

name

Etymology: * 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.

A surname.
A census-designated place in Stanislaus County, California, United States.
An unincorporated community in the town of Anderson, Iron County, Wisconsin.

noun

Etymology: First attested in the late 16th Century. From carouse, from rebracketing of the phrase “drink carouse” as “drink a rouse”.

An official ceremony over drinks.
“No jocund health that Denmark drinks to-day But the great cannon to the clouds shall tell, And the King’s rouse the heaven shall bruit again, Respeaking earthly thunder.”
A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.
“Fill the cup, and fill the can: Have a rouse before the morn: Every minute dies a man, Every minute one is born.”
Wine or other liquor considered an inducement to mirth or drunkenness; a full glass; a bumper.

verb

Etymology: From Middle English rousen, from Anglo-Norman reuser, ruser, originally used in English of hawks shaking the feathers of the body, from Latin recūsō, by loss of the medial 'c.' Doublet of recuse. Figurative meaning “to stir up, provoke to activity” is from 1580s; that of “awaken” is first recorded 1590s.

To wake (someone) from sleep, or from apathy.
“John Hedley was Locomotive Foreman at Beattock. He was in bed, but they roused him, and he gave orders for one of his pilot engines to go up to the summit, get Mitchell's train, and take it to Carlisle.”
“Dubin slept through the ringing alarm, aware of Kitty trying to rouse him and then letting him sleep.”
To be awoken from sleep, or from apathy.
“Good things of day begin to droop and drowse; Night’s black agents to their preys do rouse.”
“As for the heat, with which he treated his other adversaries, ’twas sometimes strain’d a little too far, but in the general was extremely well fitted by the Providence of God to rowse up a people, the most phlegmatic of any in Christendome.”
To cause, stir up, excite (a feeling, thought, etc.).
“to rouse the faculties, passions, or emotions”
“[…] their first Step in Dangers, after the common Efforts are over, was always to despair, lie down under it, and die, without rousing their Thoughts up to proper Remedies for Escape.”
To provoke (someone) to action or anger.
“He scarce had finisht, when such murmur filld Th’ Assembly, as when hollow Rocks retain The sound of blustring winds, which all night long Had rous’d the Sea […]”
““A surgeon!” said Anne. He caught the word; it seemed to rouse him at once, and saying only—“True, true, a surgeon this instant,” was darting away, when Anne eagerly suggested— “Captain Benwick, would not it be better for Captain Benwick? […]””
To cause to start from a covert or lurking place.
“to rouse a deer or other animal of the chase”
“Deformed creatures, in straunge difference, Some hauing heads like Harts, some like to Snakes, Some like wilde Bores late rouzd out of the brakes,”
To pull by main strength; to haul.
“Tom, you and the boy rouse the cable up—get about ten fathoms on deck, and bend it.”
To raise; to make erect.
“And ouer, all with brasen scales was armd, Like plated cote of steele, so couched neare, That nought mote perce, ne might his corse bee harmd With dint of swerd, nor push of pointed speare, Which as an Eagle, seeing pray appeare, His aery plumes doth rouze, full rudely dight, So shaked he, that horror was to heare, For as the clashing of an Armor bright, Such noyse his rouzed scales did send vnto the knight.”
“He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, Will stand a tip-toe when the day is named, And rouse him at the name of Crispian.”
To tell off; to criticise.
“He roused on her for being late yet again.”