Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
ROUSE
awaken, wake, waken, rouse, wake up, arouse
(verb) cause to become awake or conscious; “He was roused by the drunken men in the street”; “Please wake me at 6 AM.”
agitate, rouse, turn on, charge, commove, excite, charge up
(verb) cause to be agitated, excited, or roused; “The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks”
bestir, rouse
(verb) become active; “He finally bestirred himself”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Proper noun
Rouse
A surname.
A census-designated place in Stanislaus County, California, United States.
An unincorporated community in the town of Anderson, Iron County, Wisconsin.
Anagrams
• Euros, Suero, euros, rouĂ©s, suero
Etymology 1
Noun
rouse (plural rouses)
An arousal.
(military, British and Canada) The sounding of a bugle in the morning after reveille, to signal that soldiers are to rise from bed, often the rouse.
Verb
rouse (third-person singular simple present rouses, present participle rousing, simple past and past participle roused)
To wake (someone) or be awoken from sleep, or from apathy.
To cause, stir up, excite (a feeling, thought, etc.).
To provoke (someone) to action or anger.
To cause to start from a covert or lurking place.
(nautical) To pull by main strength; to haul.
(obsolete) To raise; to make erect.
(slang, when followed by "on") To tell off; to criticise.
Synonyms
• (to wake someone from sleep): bring round, roust, wake up; see also awaken
• (to be awoken from sleep): arise, get up, wake up; see also wake
Etymology 2
Noun
rouse (plural rouses)
An official ceremony over drinks.
A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.
Wine or other liquor considered an inducement to mirth or drunkenness; a full glass; a bumper.
Anagrams
• Euros, Suero, euros, rouĂ©s, suero
Source: Wiktionary
Rouse (rouz or rous), v. i. & t. Etym: [Perhaps the same word as rouse to start up, "buckle to."] (Naut.)
Definition: To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
Rouse (rouz), n. Etym: [Cf. D. roes drunkeness, icel. r, 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.
2. A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic. Fill the cup, and fill the can, Have a rouse before the morn. Tennyson.
Rouse, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Roused (rouzd); p. pr. & vb. n. Rousing.] Etym: [Probably of Scan. origin; cf. Sw. rusa to rush, Dan. ruse, AS. hreĂłsan 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. Like wild boars late roused out of the brakes. Spenser. Rouse the fleet hart, and cheer the opening hound. Pope.
2. To wake from sleep or repose; as, to rouse one early or suddenly.
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. To rouse up a people, the most phlegmatic of any in Christendom. Atterbury.
4. To put in motion; to stir up; to agitate. Blustering winds, which all night long Had roused the sea. Milton.
5. To raise; to make erect. [Obs.] Spenser. Shak.
Rouse, v. i.
1. To get or start up; to rise. [Obs.] Night's black agents to their preys do rouse. Shak.
2. To awake from sleep or repose. Morpheus rouses from his bed. Pope.
3. To be exited to thought or action from a state of indolence or inattention.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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