Meaning of rouse | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An official ceremony over drinks.
2. An arousal.
3. A surname.
4. A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.
5. The sounding of a bugle in the morning after reveille, to signal that soldiers are to rise from bed, often the rouse.
   British, Canada
6. A census-designated place in Stanislaus County, California, United States.
7. Wine or other liquor considered an inducement to mirth or drunkenness; a full glass; a bumper.
8. An unincorporated community in the town of Anderson, Iron County, Wisconsin.

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Examples

“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.”

“Fill the cup, and fill the can: Have a rouse before the morn: Every minute dies a man, Every minute one is born.”

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