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Rout \Rout\ (rout), v. i. [AS. hr[=u]tan.]
To roar; to bellow; to snort; to snore loudly. [Obs. or
Scot.] --Chaucer.
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Rout \Rout\, v. i.
To assemble in a crowd, whether orderly or disorderly; to
collect in company. [obs.] --Bacon.
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In all that land no Christian[s] durste route.
--Chaucer.
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Rout \Rout\, n.
A bellowing; a shouting; noise; clamor; uproar; disturbance;
tumult. --Shak.
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This new book the whole world makes such a rout about.
--Sterne.
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"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.
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Rout \Rout\, v. t. [A variant of root.]
To scoop out with a gouge or other tool; to furrow.
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{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.]
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Rout \Rout\, v. i.
To search or root in the ground, as a swine. --Edwards.
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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.
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And ever he rode the hinderest of the route.
--Chaucer.
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A rout of people there assembled were. --Spenser.
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2. A disorderly and tumultuous crowd; a mob; hence, the
rabble; the herd of common people.
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the endless routs of wretched thralls. --Spenser.
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The ringleader and head of all this rout. --Shak.
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Nor do I name of men the common rout. --Milton.
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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.
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thy army . . .
Dispersed in rout, betook them all to fly. --Daniel.
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To these giad conquest, murderous rout to those.
--pope.
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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.
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5. A fashionable assembly, or large evening party. "At routs
and dances." --Landor.
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{To put to rout}, to defeat and throw into confusion; to
overthrow and put to flight.
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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.
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That party . . . that charged the Scots, so totally
routed and defeated their whole army, that they fied.
--Clarendon.
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Syn: To defeat; discomfit; overpower; overthrow.
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