| • | To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances. |
| • | A bumper in honor of a toast or health. |
| • | A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic. |
| • | To cause to start from a covert or lurking place; as, to rouse a deer or other animal of the chase. |
| • | To wake from sleep or repose; as, to rouse one early or suddenly. |
| • | To excite to lively thought or action from a state of idleness, languor, stupidity, or indifference; as, to rouse the faculties, passions, or emotions. |
| • | To put in motion; to stir up; to agitate. |
| • | To raise; to make erect. |
| • | To get or start up; to rise. |
| • | To awake from sleep or repose. |
| • | To be exited to thought or action from a state of indolence or inattention. |
