1. Verb
To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
2. Noun
A bumper in honor of a toast or health.
3. Noun
A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.
4. Verb
To cause to start from a covert or lurking place; as, to rouse a deer or other animal of the chase.
5. Verb
To wake from sleep or repose; as, to rouse one early or suddenly.
6. Verb
To excite to lively thought or action from a state of idleness, languor, stupidity, or indifference; as, to rouse the faculties, passions, or emotions.
7. Verb
To put in motion; to stir up; to agitate.
8. Verb
To raise; to make erect.
9. Verb
To get or start up; to rise.
10. Verb
To awake from sleep or repose.
11. Verb
To be exited to thought or action from a state of indolence or inattention.
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