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Webster 1913 Edition
Rout
Rout
(rout)
, Verb.
I.
[AS.
hrūtan
.] To roar; to bellow; to snort; to snore loudly.
[Obs. or Scot.]
Chaucer.
Rout
,Noun.
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
“Among the graves to shout;
To laugh and play among the dead,
And make this noisy
rout
.” Trench.
Rout
,Verb.
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.]
Rout
,Verb.
I.
To search or root in the ground, as a swine.
Edwards.
Rout
,Noun.
[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
. Shakespeare
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 completethy army . . .
Dispersed in
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.
Rout
,Verb.
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.
Rout
,Verb.
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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Rout
ROUT
, n.1.
A rabble; a clamorous multitude; a tumultuous crowd; as a rout of people assembled.The endless routs of wretched thralls.
2.
In law, a rout is where three persons or more meet to do an unlawful act upon a common quarrel, as forcibly to break down fences on a right claimed of common or of way, and make some advances towards it.3.
A select company; a party for gaming.ROUT
,Noun.
The breaking or defeat of an army or band of troops, or the disorder and confusion of troops thus defeated and put to flight.
ROUT
,Verb.
T.
The king's horse - routed and defeated the whole army.
ROUT
,Verb.
I.
ROUT
,Noun.
The course or way which is traveled or passed, or to be passed; a passing; a course; a march.
Wide through the furzy field their rout they take.
Rout and road are not synonymous.
We say, to mend or repair a road, but not to mend a rout. We use rout for a course of passing, and not without reference to the passing of some person or body of men; but rout is not the road itself.
ROUT
,Verb.
I.
ROUT
,Verb.
T.