rout

v. i. [ AS. hrūtan. ] To roar; to bellow; to snort; to snore loudly. [ Obs. or Scot. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A bellowing; a shouting; noise; clamor; uproar; disturbance; tumult. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

This new book the whole world makes such a rout about. Sterne. [ 1913 Webster ]

“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. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ A variant of root. ] To scoop out with a gouge or other tool; to furrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To search or root in the ground, as a swine. Edwards. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To assemble in a crowd, whether orderly or disorderly; to collect in company. [ obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

In all that land no Christian[ s ] durste route. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

That party . . . that charged the Scots, so totally routed and defeated their whole army, that they fied. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To defeat; discomfit; overpower; overthrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

A kind of rich sweet cake made for routs, or evening parties.

Twenty-four little rout cakes that were lying neglected in a plate. Thackeray. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

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 ]