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King James Dictionary
• Rouse
Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Rouse
• Arise, Arose, Arouse, Raise, Rise, Rouse
Webster Dictionary
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1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• John Rouse Merriott Chard
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Ross (Also Rous, Rouse, or Rows), John (1)
• Rous (Rouse, or Rowse), Francis
• Rouse, Peter P.
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• עורּ , עָעַר
• קוּם קָמָי, , תְּקוֹמֵם

ROUSE, rouz. This word, written also arouse, seems to belong to the family of raise or rush. See Raise.

1. To wake from sleep or repose. Genesis 49 .

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

3. To put into action to agitate.

Blust'ring winds that rous'd the sea.

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

ROUSE,

1. To awake from sleep or repose.

Morpheus rouses from his bed.

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

ROUSE, In seamen's language, to pull together upon a cable, &c. without the assistance of tackles or other mechanical power.

ROUSE, n. rouz.

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