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Round, adv. 1. On all sides; around.
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Round he throws his baleful eyes. Milton.
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2. Circularly; in a circular form or manner; by revolving or reversing one's position; as, to turn one's head round; a wheel turns round.
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3. In circumference; as, a ball is ten inches round.
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4. From one side or party to another; as to come or turn round, -- that is, to change sides or opinions.
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5. By or in a circuit; by a course longer than the direct course; back to the starting point.
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6. Through a circle, as of friends or houses.
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The invitations were sent round accordingly. Sir W. Scott.
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7. Roundly; fully; vigorously. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Coloq. All round , over the whole place; in every direction. -- Coloq. All-round , of general capacity; as, an all-round man. [Colloq.] -- Coloq. To bring one round . (a) To cause one to change his opinions or line of conduct. (b) To restore one to health. [Colloq.]
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Round (?), prep. On every side of, so as to encompass or encircle; around; about; as, the people atood round him; to go round the city; to wind a cable round a windlass.
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The serpent Error twines round human hearts. Cowper.
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Coloq. Round about , an emphatic form for round or about. “Moses . . . set them [The elders] round about the tabernacle.” Num. xi. 24. -- Coloq. To come round , to gain the consent of, or circumvent, (a person) by flattery or deception. [Colloq.]
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Round, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rounded; p. pr. & vb. n. Rounding.] 1. To make circular, spherical, or cylindrical; to give a round or convex figure to; as, to round a silver coin; to round the edges of anything.
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Worms with many feet, which round themselves into balls, are bred chiefly under logs of timber. Bacon.
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The figures on our modern medals are raised and rounded to a very great perfection. Addison.
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2. To surround; to encircle; to encompass.
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The inclusive verge
Of golden metal that must round my brow. Shak.
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3. To bring to fullness or completeness; to complete; hence, to bring to a fit conclusion.
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We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep. Shak.
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4. To go round wholly or in part; to go about (a corner or point); as, to round a corner; to round Cape Horn.
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5. To make full, smooth, and flowing; as, to round periods in writing. Swift.
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Coloq. To round in (Naut.) To haul up; usually, to haul the slack of (a rope) through its leading block, or to haul up (a tackle which hangs loose) by its fall. Totten. (b) To collect together (cattle) by riding around them, as on cattle ranches. [Western U.S.]
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Round, v. i. 1. To grow round or full; hence, to attain to fullness, completeness, or perfection.
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The queen your mother rounds apace. Shak.
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So rounds he to a separate mind,
From whence clear memory may begin. Tennyson.
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2. To go round, as a guard. [Poetic]
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They . . . nightly rounding walk. Milton.
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3. To go or turn round; to wheel about. Tennyson.
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Coloq. To round to (Naut.), to turn the head of a ship toward the wind.
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Roundabout (?), a. 1. Circuitous; going round; indirect; as, roundabout speech.
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We have taken a terrible roundabout road. Burke.
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2. Encircling; enveloping; comprehensive. “Large, sound, roundabout sense.” Locke.
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Roundabout, n. 1. A large horizontal wheel or frame, commonly with wooden horses, etc., on which children ride; a merry-go-round; a carousel. [British] Smart.
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2. A dance performed in a circle. Goldsmith.
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3. A short, close jacket worn by boys, sailors, etc.
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4. A state or scene of constant change, or of recurring labor and vicissitude. Cowper.
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5. a . [Chiefly British]
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Roundaboutness, n. The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
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Round-arm (?), a. (Cricket) Applied to the method delivering the ball in bowling, by swinging the arm horizontally. R. A. Proctor.
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Round-backed (?), a. Having a round back or shoulders; round-shouldered.
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Rounded, a. (Phonetics) Modified by contraction of the lip opening; labialized; labial. See Guide to Pronunciation, § 11.
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Roundel (?), n. [OF. rondel a roundelay, F. rondel, rondeau, a dim. fr. rond; for sense 2, cf. F. rondelle a round, a round shield. See , a., and cf. , .] 1. (Mus.) A rondelay. “Sung all the roundel lustily.” Chaucer.
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Come, now a roundel and a fairy song. Shak.
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2. Anything having a round form; a round figure; a circle.
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The Spaniards, casting themselves into roundels, . . . made a flying march to Calais. Bacon.
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Specifically: (a) A small circular shield, sometimes not more than a foot in diameter, used by soldiers in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. (b) (Her.) A circular spot; a sharge in the form of a small circle. (c) (Fort.) A bastion of a circular form.
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Roundelay (?), n. [OF. rondelet, dim. of rondel. See , , and cf. , .] 1. (Poetry) See , and .
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2. (Mus.) (a) A tune in which a simple strain is often repeated; a simple rural strain which is short and lively. Spenser. Tennyson. (b) A dance in a circle.
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3. Anything having a round form; a roundel.
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Rounder (?), n. 1. One who rounds; one who comes about frequently or regularly.
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2. A tool for making an edge or surface round.
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3. pl. An English game somewhat resembling baseball; also, another English game resembling the game of fives, but played with a football.
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Now we play rounders, and then we played prisoner's base. Bagehot.
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Roundfish (?), n. (Zoöl.) (a) Any ordinary market fish, exclusive of flounders, sole, halibut, and other flatfishes. (b) A lake whitefish (Coregonus quadrilateralis), less compressed than the common species. It is very abundant in British America and Alaska.
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Roundhead (?), n. (Eng. Hist.) A nickname for a Puritan. See Roundheads, the, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction. Toone.
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Roundheaded, a. Having a round head or top.
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Roundhouse (?), n. 1. A constable's prison; a lockup, watch-house, or station house. [Obs.]
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2. (Naut.) (a) A cabin or apartament on the after part of the quarter-deck, having the poop for its roof; -- sometimes called the coach. (b) A privy near the bow of the vessel.
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3. A house for locomotive engines, built circularly around a turntable.
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Rounding, a. Round or nearly round; becoming round; roundish.
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Rounding, n. 1. (Naut.) Small rope, or strands of rope, or spun yarn, wound round a rope to keep it from chafing; -- called also service.
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2. (Phonetics) Modifying a speech sound by contraction of the lip opening; labializing; labialization. See Guide to Pronunciation, § 11.
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Roundish, a. Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure. -- Roundishness, n.
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Roundlet (?), n. A little circle. J. Gregory.
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Roundly, adv. 1. In a round form or manner.
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2. Openly; boldly; peremptorily; plumply.
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He affirms everything roundly. Addison.
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3. Briskly; with speed. locke.
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Two of the outlaws walked roundly forward. Sir W. Scott.
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4. Completely; vigorously; in earnest. Shak.
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5. Without regard to detail; in gross; comprehensively; generally; as, to give numbers roundly.
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In speaking roundly of this period. H. Morley.
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Roundness, n. 1. The quality or state of being round in shape; as, the roundness of the globe, of the orb of the sun, of a ball, of a bowl, a column, etc.
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2. Fullness; smoothness of flow; as, the roundness of a period; the roundness of a note; roundness of tone.
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3. Openess; plainess; boldness; positiveness; as, the roundness of an assertion.
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Syn. -- Circularity; sphericity; globosity; globularity; globularness; orbicularness; cylindricity; fullness; plumpness; rotundity.
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Roundridge (?), v. t. (Agric.) To form into round ridges by plowing. B. Edwards.
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round robin, round-robin (round rŏbĭn), n. 1. Any series or sequence of actions.
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2. A document circulated from one person to another in a group, often with comments added by each recipient.
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3. A petition or similar document, in which the signatures are arranged in circular form in order to conceal the order of signing.
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4. (Sports) A tournament in which each contestant plays against every other contestant at least once; a failure to win any contest does not result in elimination from the tournament. Contrasted with elimination tournament
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Round-shouldered (?), a. Having the shoulders stooping or projecting; round-backed.
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Roundsman (?), n.; pl. Roundsmen (�). A patrolman; also, a policeman who acts as an inspector over the rounds of the patrolmen.
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Roundtop (?), n. (Naut.) A top; a platform at a masthead; -- so called because formerly round in shape.
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Round-up (?), n. 1. The act of collecting or gathering together scattered cattle by riding around them and driving them in. [Western U.S.]
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2. A rounding up, or upward curvature or convexity, as in the deck of a vessel.
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2. A gathering in of scattered persons or things; as, a round-up of criminals. [Colloq., U. S.]
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Round up (?), v. t. to collect or gather together scattered animals, persons, or things. “Round up the usual suspects.” [Casablanca]
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Roundure (?; 135), n. [Cf. .] Roundness; a round or circle. [Obs.] Shak.
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Roundworm (?), n. (Zoöl.) A nematoid worm.
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Roundy (?), a. Round. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.
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Roup (?), v. i. & t. [Cf. AS. hr�pan to cry out, G. rufen, Goth. hr�pian. Cf. .] To cry or shout; hence, to sell by auction. [Scot.] Jamieson.
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Roup, n. 1. An outcry; hence, a sale of gods by auction. [Scot.] Jamieson.
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To roup, that is, the sale of his crops, was over. J. C. Shairp.
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2. A disease in poultry. See .
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Rousant (?), a. (her.) Rising; -- applied to a bird in the attitude of rising; also, sometmes, to a bird in profile with wings addorsed.
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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.
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Rouse (rouz), n. [Cf. D. roes drunkeness, icel. rūss, Sw. rus, G. rauchen, and also E. rouse, v.t., rush, v.i. Cf. a disturbance.] 1. A bumper in honor of a toast or health. [Obs.] Shak.
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2. A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.
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Fill the cup, and fill the can,
Have a rouse before the morn. Tennyson.
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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. hreósan to fall, rush. Cf. , v.] 1. To cause to start from a covert or lurking place; as, to rouse a deer or other animal of the chase.
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Like wild boars late roused out of the brakes. Spenser.
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Rouse the fleet hart, and cheer the opening hound. Pope.
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2. To wake from sleep or repose; as, to rouse one early or suddenly.
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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.
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To rouse up a people, the most phlegmatic of any in Christendom. Atterbury.
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4. To put in motion; to stir up; to agitate.
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Blustering winds, which all night long
Had roused the sea. Milton.
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5. To raise; to make erect. [Obs.] Spenser. Shak.
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Rouse, v. i. 1. To get or start up; to rise. [Obs.]
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Night's black agents to their preys do rouse. Shak.
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2. To awake from sleep or repose.
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Morpheus rouses from his bed. Pope.
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3. To be exited to thought or action from a state of indolence or inattention.
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Rouser (?), n. 1. One who, or that which, rouses.
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2. Something very exciting or great. [Colloq.]
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3. (Brewing) A stirrer in a copper for boiling wort.
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Rousing (?), a. 1. Having power to awaken or excite; exciting.
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I begin to feel
Some rousing motions in me. Milton.
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2. Very great; violent; astounding; as, a rousing fire; a rousing lie. [Colloq.]
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Rousingly, adv. In a rousing manner.
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Roussette (?), n. [F.; -- so called in allusion to the color. See .] 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.
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2. (Zoöl.) Any small shark of the genus Scyllium; -- called also dogfish. See .
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Roust (roust), v. t. To rouse; to disturb; as, to roust one out. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U.S.]
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Roust, n. [Cf. Icel. röst an estuary.] A strong tide or current, especially in a narrow channel. [Written also rost, and roost.] Jamieson.
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Roustabout (?), n. [Etymol. uncertain.] A laborer, especially a deck hand, on a river steamboat, who moves the cargo, loads and unloads wood, and the like; in an opprobrious sense, a shiftless vagrant who lives by chance jobs. [Western U.S.]
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Rout (rout), v. i. [AS. hrūtan.] To roar; to bellow; to snort; to snore loudly. [Obs. or Scot.] Chaucer.
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Rout, n. A bellowing; a shouting; noise; clamor; uproar; disturbance; tumult. Shak.
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This new book the whole world makes such a rout about. Sterne.
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“My child, it is not well,” I said,
“Among the graves to shout;
To laugh and play among the dead,
And make this noisy rout.” Trench.
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Rout, v. t. [A variant of root.] To scoop out with a gouge or other tool; to furrow.
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Coloq. To rout out (a) To turn up to view, as if by rooting; to discover; to find. (b) To turn out by force or compulsion; as, to rout people out of bed. [Colloq.]
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Rout, v. i. To search or root in the ground, as a swine. Edwards.
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Rout, n. [OF. route, LL. rupta, properly, a breaking, fr. L. ruptus, p. p. of rumpere to break. See , , and cf. repetition of forms, . In some senses this word has been confused with rout a bellowing, an uproar.] [Formerly spelled also route.] 1. A troop; a throng; a company; an assembly; especially, a traveling company or throng. [Obs.] “A route of ratones [rats].” Piers Plowman. “A great solemn route.” Chaucer.
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And ever he rode the hinderest of the route. Chaucer.
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A rout of people there assembled were. Spenser.
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2. A disorderly and tumultuous crowd; a mob; hence, the rabble; the herd of common people.
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the endless routs of wretched thralls. Spenser.
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The ringleader and head of all this rout. Shak.
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Nor do I name of men the common rout. Milton.
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3. The state of being disorganized and thrown into confusion; -- said especially of an army defeated, broken in pieces, and put to flight in disorder or panic; also, the act of defeating and breaking up an army; as, the rout of the enemy was complete.
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thy army . . .
Dispersed in rout, betook them all to fly. Daniel.
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To these giad conquest, murderous rout to those. pope.
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4. (Law) A disturbance of the peace by persons assembled together with intent to do a thing which, if executed, would make them rioters, and actually making a motion toward the executing thereof. Wharton.
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5. A fashionable assembly, or large evening party. “At routs and dances.” Landor.
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Coloq. To put to rout , to defeat and throw into confusion; to overthrow and put to flight.
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Rout, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Routed; p. pr. & vb. n. Routing.] To break the ranks of, as troops, and put them to flight in disorder; to put to rout.
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That party . . . that charged the Scots, so totally routed and defeated their whole army, that they fied. Clarendon.
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Syn. -- To defeat; discomfit; overpower; overthrow.
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Rout, v. i. To assemble in a crowd, whether orderly or disorderly; to collect in company. [obs.] Bacon.
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In all that land no Christian[s] durste route. Chaucer.
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Rout cake (?). A kind of rich sweet cake made for routs, or evening parties.

Twenty-four little rout cakes that were lying neglected in a plate. Thackeray.
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Route (r�t or rout; 277), n. [OE. & F. route, OF. rote, fr. L. rupta (sc. via), fr. ruptus, p. p. of rumpere to break; hence, literally, a broken or beaten way or path. See , and cf. a track.] The course or way which is traveled or passed, or is to be passed; a passing; a course; a road or path; a march.
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Wide through the furzy field their route they take. Gay.
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Router (?), n. 1. (Carp.) (a) A plane made like a spokeshave, for working the inside edges of circular sashes. (b) A plane with a hooked tool protruding far below the sole, for smoothing the bottom of a cavity.
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2. (Mach.) A machine with a rapidly revolving vertical spindle and cutter for scooping out the surface of wood or metal, as between and around the engraved parts of an electrotype.
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Routhe (?), n. Ruth; sorrow. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Routinary (?), a. Involving, or pertaining to, routine; ordinary; customary. [R.] Emerson.
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Routine (?), n. [F., fr. route a path, way, road. See , repetition.] 1. A round of business, amusement, or pleasure, daily or frequently pursued; especially, a course of business or offical duties regularly or frequently returning.
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2. Any regular course of action or procedure rigidly adhered to by the mere force of habit.
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Routinism (?), n. the practice of doing things with undiscriminating, mechanical regularity.
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Routinist, n. One who habituated to a routine.
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Routish (?), a. Uproarious; riotous. [Obs.]
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Routously (?), adv. (Law) With that violation of law called a rout. See 5th , 4.
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Roux (?), n. [F. beurre roux brown butter.] (Cookery) A thickening, made of flour, for soups and gravies.
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