(v. i. & t.) To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a
rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
(n.) A bumper in honor of a toast or health.
(n.) A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.
(v.) To cause to start from a covert or lurking place; as, to
rouse a deer or other animal of the chase.
(v.) To wake from sleep or repose; as, to rouse one early or
suddenly.
(v.) To excite to lively thought or action from a state of
idleness, languor, stupidity, or indifference; as, to rouse the
faculties, passions, or emotions.
(v.) To put in motion; to stir up; to agitate.
(v.) To raise; to make erect.
(v. i.) To get or start up; to rise.
(v. i.) To awake from sleep or repose.
(v. i.) To be exited to thought or action from a state of
indolence or inattention.
