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8 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Rout \Rout\ (rout), v. i. [AS. hr[=u]tan.] To roar; to bellow; to snort; to snore loudly. [Obs. or Scot.] --Chaucer. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Rout \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 said ``Among the graves to shout; To laugh and play among the dead, And make this noisy rout.'' --Trench. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Rout \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 by force or compulsion; as to rout people out of bed. [Colloq.] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Rout \Rout\, v. i. To search or root in the ground, as a swine. --Edwards. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Rout \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 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. And ever he rode the hinderest of the route. --Chaucer. A rout of people there assembled were --Spenser. 2. A disorderly and tumultuous crowd; a mob; hence the rabble; the herd of common people. the endless routs of wretched thralls. --Spenser. The ringleader and head of all this rout. --Shak. Nor do I name of men the common rout. --Milton. 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. thy army . . . Dispersed in rout, betook them all to fly. --Daniel. To these giad conquest, murderous rout to those --pope. 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. 5. A fashionable assembly, or large evening party. ``At routs and dances.'' --Landor. {To put to rout}, to defeat and throw into confusion; to overthrow and put to flight. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Rout \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 Scots, so totally routed and defeated their whole army, that they fied. --Clarendon. Syn: To defeat; discomfit; overpower; overthrow. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Rout \Rout\, v. i. To assemble in a crowd, whether orderly or disorderly; to collect in company. [obs.] --Bacon. In all that land no Christian[s] durste route. --Chaucer. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: rout n 1: a disorderly crowd of people [syn: {mob}, {rabble}] 2: a defeat in battle [syn: {discomfit}, {discomfiture}] v 1: cause to flee [syn: {rout out}, {expel}] 2: dig with the snout; "the pig was rooting for truffles" [syn: {root}, {rootle}] 3: make a groove in [syn: {gouge}, {groove}] 4: defeat disastrously [syn: {spread-eagle}, {spreadeagle}]
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