Rout

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vi To search or root in the ground, as a swine.

II. Rout ·noun A fashionable assembly, or large evening party.

III. Rout ·noun A bellowing; a shouting; noise; clamor; uproar; disturbance; tumult.

IV. Rout ·vt To scoop out with a gouge or other tool; to Furrow.

V. Rout ·vi To assemble in a crowd, whether orderly or disorderly; to collect in company.

VI. Rout ·noun A troop; a throng; a company; an assembly; especially, a traveling company or throng.

VII. Rout ·vt To break the ranks of, as troops, and put them to flight in disorder; to put to rout.

VIII. Rout ·noun A disorderly and tumultuous crowd; a mob; hence, the rabble; the herd of common people.

IX. Rout ·vi To Roar; to Bellow; to Snort; to snore loudly.

X. Rout ·noun 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.

XI. Rout ·noun 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.

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