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adj. 1. emotionally stimulated.
Syn. -- stimulated, stirred, stirred up. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. 1 brought to a state of great psychological tension.
Syn. -- wound up. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. 1 stimulated to a state of awareness and interest. the aroused opposition
Syn. -- awakened. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

4. sexually aroused; feeling a strong urge for sexual activity.
Syn. -- aflame, hot, turned on(predicate), horny. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

5. excessively affected by emotion; -- of persons.
Syn. -- emotional, excited. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖ [ F. ] The red cap adopted by the extremists in the French Revolution, which became a sign of patriotism at that epoch; hence, a revolutionist; a Red Republican. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

p. a. Braided; broidered. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Alle his clothes brouded up and down. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. carrousse, earlier carous, fr. G. garaus finishing stroke, the entire emptying of the cup in drinking a health; gar entirely + aus out. See Yare, and Out. ] 1. A large draught of liquor. [ Obs. ] “A full carouse of sack.” Sir J. Davies. [ 1913 Webster ]

Drink carouses to the next day's fate. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A drinking match; a carousal. [ 1913 Webster ]

The early feast and late carouse. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Caroused p. pr. & vb. n. Carousing. ] To drink deeply or freely in compliment; to take part in a carousal; to engage in drunken revels. [ 1913 Webster ]

He had been aboard, carousing to his mates. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To drink up; to drain; to drink freely or jovially. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Guests carouse the sparkling tears of the rich grape. Denham. [ 1913 Webster ]

Egypt's wanton queen,
Carousing gems, herself dissolved in love. Young. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a continuous belt oriented horizontally or near-horizontally around a central structure, driven in a circular motion by some mechanism, which carries luggage delivered from the luggage hold of an airplane to air travelers; -- used at airports.
Syn. -- luggage carousel. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. same as merry-go-round.
Syn. -- merry-go-round, roundabout, whirligig. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who carouses; a reveler. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A crock; a jar. [ Obs. ] Chauser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Crupper. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Etymol. uncertain. ] Brisk; lively; bold; self-complacent. [ Scot. ] Burns. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Freed from a shroudlike covering; unveiled. [ 1913 Webster ]

The disenshrouded statue. R. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , v. t. To embroider; to adorn. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Embrowded was he, as it were a mead
All full of fresshe flowers, white and red. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. See Embroude. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ F. ] On the way or road. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] (Gun.) An apparatus for testing or proving the strength of gunpowder. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. arranged into groups, each having some feature in common.
Syn. -- sorted. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. [ Corrupted fr. Pg. garupa crupper. Cf. Garbupa. ] (Zool.) (a) One of several species of valuable food fishes of the genus Epinephelus, of the family Serranidæ, as the red grouper, or brown snapper (Epinephelus morio), and the black grouper, or warsaw (Epinephelus nigritus), both from Florida and the Gulf of Mexico. (b) The tripletail (Lobotes). (c) In California, the name is often applied to the rockfishes. [ Written also groper, gruper, and trooper. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. sing. & pl. [ Prob. after the analogy of mouse, mice, fr. the earlier grice, OF. griesche meor hen: cf. F. piegrièche shrike. ] (Zool.) Any of the numerous species of gallinaceous birds of the family Tetraonidæ, and subfamily Tetraoninæ, inhabiting Europe, Asia, and North America. They have plump bodies, strong, well-feathered legs, and usually mottled plumage. The group includes the ptarmigans (Lagopus), having feathered feet. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Among the European species are the red grouse (Lagopus Scoticus) and the hazel grouse (Bonasa betulina). See Capercaidzie, Ptarmigan, and Heath grouse. Among the most important American species are the ruffed grouse, or New England partridge (Bonasa umbellus); the sharp-tailed grouse (Pediocætes phasianellus) of the West; the dusky blue, or pine grouse (Dendragapus obscurus) of the Rocky Mountains; the Canada grouse, or spruce partridge (D. Canadensis). See also Prairie hen, and Sage cock. The Old World sand grouse (Pterocles, etc.) belong to a very different family. See Pterocletes, and Sand grouse. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To seek or shoot grouse. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To complain or grumble; as, employees grousing about their incompetent boss. [ informal ] [ PJC ]

n. (Dredging, Pile Driving, etc.) A pointed timber attached to a boat and sliding vertically, to thrust into the ground as a means of anchorage. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F., fr. L. rubeus red, akin to rubere to be red, ruber red. See Red. ] red. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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Rouge et noir ety>[ F., red and black ], a game at cards in which persons play against the owner of the bank; -- so called because the table around which the players sit has certain compartments colored red and black, upon which the stakes are deposited. Hoyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ] 1. (Chem.) A red amorphous powder consisting of ferric oxide. It is used in polishing glass, metal, or gems, and as a cosmetic, etc. Called also crocus, jeweler's rouge, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A cosmetic used for giving a red color to the cheeks or lips. The best is prepared from the dried flowers of the safflower, but it is often made from carmine. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Rouged p. pr. & vb. n. Rouging . ] To paint the face or cheeks with rouge. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To tint with rouge; as, to rouge the face or the cheeks. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., literally, red cross. ] (Her.) One of the four pursuivants of the English college of arms. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., literally, red dragon. ] (Her.) One of the four pursuivants of the English college of arms. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. F. Rouleaux E. Rouleaus [ F., a roll, dim. fr. fr. rôle, formerly also spelt roulle. See Roll. ] A little roll; a roll of coins put up in paper, or something resembling such a roll. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., properly, a little wheel or ball. See Rouleau, Roll. ] 1. A game of chance, in which a small ball is made to move round rapidly on a circle divided off into numbered red and black spaces, the one on which it stops indicating the result of a variety of wagers permitted by the game. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Fine Arts) (a) A small toothed wheel used by engravers to roll over a plate in order to order to produce rows of dots. (b) A similar wheel used to roughen the surface of a plate, as in making alterations in a mezzotint. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Geom.) the curve traced by any point in the plane of a given curve when the latter rolls, without sliding, over another fixed curve. See Cycloid, and Epycycloid. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A small toothed wheel used to make short incisions in paper, as a sheet of postage stamps to facilitate their separation. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. To make short incisions in with a roulette; to separate by incisions made with a roulette; as, to roulette a sheet of postage stamps. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. i. & t. [ Perhaps the same word as rouse to start up, “buckle to.” ] (Naut.) To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. D. roes drunkeness, icel. rūss, Sw. rus, G. rauchen, and also E. rouse, v.t., rush, v.i. Cf. Row a disturbance. ] 1. A bumper in honor of a toast or health. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fill the cup, and fill the can,
Have a rouse before the morn. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Roused p. pr. & vb. n. Rousing. ] [ Probably of Scan. origin; cf. Sw. rusa to rush, Dan. ruse, AS. hreósan to fall, rush. Cf. Rush, v. ] 1. To cause to start from a covert or lurking place; as, to rouse a deer or other animal of the chase. [ 1913 Webster ]

Like wild boars late roused out of the brakes. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Rouse the fleet hart, and cheer the opening hound. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To wake from sleep or repose; as, to rouse one early or suddenly. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To excite to lively thought or action from a state of idleness, languor, stupidity, or indifference; as, to rouse the faculties, passions, or emotions. [ 1913 Webster ]

To rouse up a people, the most phlegmatic of any in Christendom. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To put in motion; to stir up; to agitate. [ 1913 Webster ]

Blustering winds, which all night long
Had roused the sea. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To raise; to make erect. [ Obs. ] Spenser. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To get or start up; to rise. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Night's black agents to their preys do rouse. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To awake from sleep or repose. [ 1913 Webster ]

Morpheus rouses from his bed. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To be exited to thought or action from a state of indolence or inattention. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, rouses. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Something very exciting or great. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Brewing) A stirrer in a copper for boiling wort. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. & F. route, OF. rote, fr. L. rupta (sc. via), fr. ruptus, p. p. of rumpere to break; hence, literally, a broken or beaten way or path. See Rout, and cf. Rut a track. ] The course or way which is traveled or passed, or is to be passed; a passing; a course; a road or path; a march. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wide through the furzy field their route they take. Gay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Carp.) (a) A plane made like a spokeshave, for working the inside edges of circular sashes. (b) A plane with a hooked tool protruding far below the sole, for smoothing the bottom of a cavity. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mach.) A machine with a rapidly revolving vertical spindle and cutter for scooping out the surface of wood or metal, as between and around the engraved parts of an electrotype. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

(a) An act of bravado played by loading one bullet into one chamber of a revolver in which the cylinder has five or six positions, spinning the cylinder (thus moving the bullet randomly to one of the six positions of the cylinder), pointing the gun to one's head, and pulling the trigger. If the bullet is in firing position, the "player" is usually killed. Such a "game" may be played on a dare, or, in some places, as part of a gamble. (b) (Fig.) Any dangerous act resembling Russian roulette in the acceptance of a high risk of serious negative consequences, usually unnecessarily. “The congress is playing Russian roulette with the economy by enacting such large tax reductions without spending cuts.” [ PJC ]

v. t. [ Etymol. uncertain. ] To crowd; to squeeze. [ Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Provided with a shroud or shrouds. [ 1913 Webster ]

Shrouded gear (Mach.), a cogwheel or pinion having flanges which form closed ends to the spaces between the teeth and thus strengthen the teeth by tying them together. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., troop. See Troop. ] A company or troop, especially the company of performers in a play or an opera. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Trousers. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Cloth or material for making trousers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. [ OF. trousses breeches worn by pages, from trousse, trosse, a bundle, a truss. See Truss, and cf. Trossers, Trouse. ] A garment worn by men and boys, extending from the waist to the knee or to the ankle, and covering each leg separately. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖‖ } n. [ F. trouveur, trouvère. See Troubadour. ] One of a school of poets who flourished in Northern France from the eleventh to the fourteenth century. [ 1913 Webster ]