Rout
Rout (rout), v. i. [AS. hrūtan.] To roar; to bellow; to snort; to snore loudly. Chaucer.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.
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Rout (2)
Rout, n. A bellowing; a shouting; noise; clamor; uproar; disturbance; tumult. Shak.This new book the whole world makes such a rout about. Sterne.“My child, it is not well,” I sa...
Rout (3)
Rout, v. t. [A variant of root.] To scoop out with a gouge or other tool; to furrow.To rout out (a) To turn up to view, as if by rooting; to discover; to find. (b) To turn out b...
Rout (4)
Rout, v. i. To search or root in the ground, as a swine. Edwards.
Rout (5)
Rout, n. [OF. route, LL. rupta, properly, a breaking, fr. L. ruptus, p. p. of rumpere to break. See Rupture, reave, and cf. Rote repetition of forms, Route. In some senses this ...
Rout (6)
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.That party... that charged the Sco...
Rout (7)
Rout, v. i. To assemble in a crowd, whether orderly or disorderly; to collect in company. Bacon.In all that land no Christian durste route. Chaucer.
Rout cake
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.
Route
Route (ro͞ot 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 Ro...
Router
Rout″er (?), n.(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 smo...
Router (2)
Rout″er (?), n.(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 ...
Routhe
Routhe (?), n. Ruth; sorrow. Chaucer.
Routinary
Rou″ti‐na‐ry (?), a. Involving, or pertaining to, routine; ordinary; customary. Emerson.
Routine
Rou‐tine″ (?), n. [F., fr. route a path, way, road. See Route, Roterepetition.] 1. A round of business, amusement, or pleasure, daily or frequently pursued; especially, a course...
Routinism
Rou‐tin″″ism (?), n. the practice of doing things with undiscriminating, mechanical regularity.
Routinist
Rou‐tin″ist, n. One who habituated to a routine.
Routish
Rout″ish (?), a. Uproarious; riotous.
Routously
Rout″ous‐ly (?), adv.(Law) With that violation of law called a rout. See 5th Rout, 4.
Roux
‖Roux (?), n. [F. beurre roux brown butter.] (Cookery) A thickening, made of flour, for soups and gravies.
Rove
Rove (rōv), v. t. [perhaps fr. or akin to reeve.] 1. To draw through an eye or aperture.2. To draw out into flakes; to card, as wool. Jamieson.3. To twist slightly; to bring tog...
Rove (2)
Rove (rōv), n. 1. A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boat building.2. A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slighty twisted, preparatory to f...
Rove (3)
Rove, v. i. [imp. & p. p.Roved (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Roving.] [Cf. D. rooven to rob; akin to E. reave. See Reave, Rob.] 1. To practice robbery on the seas; to wander about on the ...
Rove (4)
Rove, v. t. 1. To wander over or through.Roving the field, I chancedA goodly tree far distant to behold. milton.2. To plow into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together.
Rove (5)
Rove, n. The act of wandering; a ramble.In thy nocturnal rove one moment halt. Young.Rove beetle(Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of beetles of the family Staphylinidæ, havin...
Rover
Rov″er (?), n. [D. roover a robber. See Rove, v. i.] 1. One who practices robbery on the seas; a pirate.Yet Pompey the Great deserveth honor more justly for scouring the seas, a...
Roving
Rov″ing, n. 1. The operatin of forming the rove, or slightly twisted sliver or roll of wool or cotton, by means of a machine for the purpose, called a roving frame, or roving ma...
Roving (2)
Rov″ing, n. The act of one who roves or wanders.