rouz.

To wake from sleep or repose. Genesis 49:9.

To excite to thought or action from a state of idleness, languor, stupidity or inattention.

To put into action; to agitate. Blust’ring winds that rous’d the sea.

To drive a beast from his den or place of rest.

To awake from sleep or repose. Morpheus rouses from his bed.

To be excited to thought or action from a state of indolence, sluggishness, languor or inattention.

In seamen’s language, to pull together upon a cablewithout the assistance of tackles or other mechanical power.

A full glass of liquor; a bumper in honor of a health. Obs.