ROUSING

rousing

(adjective) rousing to activity or heightened action as by spurring or goading; “tossed a rousing political comment into the conversation”

rousing, stirring

(adjective) capable of arousing enthusiasm or excitement; “a rousing sermon”; “stirring events such as wars and rescues”

arousal, rousing

(noun) the act of arousing; “the purpose of art is the arousal of emotions”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Adjective

rousing (comparative more rousing, superlative most rousing)

That rouses or excites.

Verb

rousing

present participle of rouse

Noun

rousing (plural rousings)

The act by which somebody or something is roused.

Anagrams

• nigrous, rugosin, souring

Source: Wiktionary

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Rous"ing, a.

1. Having power to awaken or excite; exciting. I begin to feel Some rousing motions in me. Milton.

2. Very great; violent; astounding; as, a rousing fire; a rousing lie. [Colloq.]

ROUSE

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. 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. 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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