GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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   Rout , v. i. [AS. hrūtan.] To roar; to bellow; to snort; to snore loudly. [Obs. or Scot.]
   Chaucer.
   
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   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, 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, v. i. To search or root in the ground, as a swine.
   Edwards.
   
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   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.]
   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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   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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   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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   (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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   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, 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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   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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