Defn: To roar; to bellow; to snort; to snore loudly. [Obs. or Scot.]
Chaucer.
ROUT
Rout, n.
Defn: 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
Rout, v. t. Etym: [A variant of root.]
Defn: 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
Rout, v. i.
Defn: To search or root in the ground, as a swine. Edwards.
ROUT Rout, n. Etym: [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.