Routes
rout (rout), v. i. (AS.hrutan.) To roar; to bellow; to snort; to snore
loudly. (Obs. or Scot.) Chaucer.
rout , n. 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 rout. Trench.
rout , v. 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 , v. i. To search or root inthe ground, as a swine. Edwards.
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.
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. Shak.
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 complete.
thy army . . .
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 , v. t. (imp. p. pr. 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 , v. 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.
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