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.