8  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Rout  \Rout\  (rout),  v.  i.  [AS.  hr[=u]tan.] 
  To  roar;  to  bellow;  to  snort;  to  snore  loudly.  [Obs.  or 
  Scot.]  --Chaucer. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Rout  \Rout\,  n. 
  A  bellowing;  a  shouting;  noise;  clamor;  uproar;  disturbance; 
  tumult.  --Shak. 
 
  This  new  book  the  whole  world  makes  such  a  rout  about 
  --Sterne. 
 
  ``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. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Rout  \Rout\,  v.  t.  [A  variant  of  root.] 
  To  scoop  out  with  a  gouge  or  other  tool;  to  furrow. 
 
  {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.] 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Rout  \Rout\,  v.  i. 
  To  search  or  root  in  the  ground,  as  a  swine.  --Edwards. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Rout  \Rout\,  n.  [OF.  route,  LL  rupta,  properly,  a  breaking,  fr 
  L.  ruptus  p.  p.  of  rumpere  to  break.  See  {Rupture},  {reave}, 
  and  cf  {Rote}  repetition  of  forms,  {Route}.  In  some  senses 
  this  word  has  been  confused  with  rout  a  bellowing,  an 
  uproar.]  [Formerly  spelled  also  {route}.] 
  1.  A  troop;  a  throng;  a  company;  an  assembly;  especially,  a 
  traveling  company  or  throng.  [Obs.]  ``A  route  of  ratones 
  [rats].''  --Piers  Plowman.  ``A  great  solemn  route.'' 
  --Chaucer. 
 
  And  ever  he  rode  the  hinderest  of  the  route. 
  --Chaucer. 
 
  A  rout  of  people  there  assembled  were  --Spenser. 
 
  2.  A  disorderly  and  tumultuous  crowd;  a  mob;  hence  the 
  rabble;  the  herd  of  common  people. 
 
  the  endless  routs  of  wretched  thralls.  --Spenser. 
 
  The  ringleader  and  head  of  all  this  rout.  --Shak. 
 
  Nor  do  I  name  of  men  the  common  rout.  --Milton. 
 
  3.  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. 
 
  thy  army  .  .  .  Dispersed  in  rout,  betook  them  all  to 
  fly.  --Daniel. 
 
  To  these  giad  conquest,  murderous  rout  to  those 
  --pope. 
 
  4.  (Law)  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.  --Wharton. 
 
  5.  A  fashionable  assembly,  or  large  evening  party.  ``At  routs 
  and  dances.''  --Landor. 
 
  {To  put  to  rout},  to  defeat  and  throw  into  confusion;  to 
  overthrow  and  put  to  flight. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Rout  \Rout\,  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. 
 
  That  party  .  .  .  that  charged  the  Scots,  so  totally 
  routed  and  defeated  their  whole  army,  that  they  fied. 
  --Clarendon. 
 
  Syn:  To  defeat;  discomfit;  overpower;  overthrow. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Rout  \Rout\,  v.  i. 
  To  assemble  in  a  crowd,  whether  orderly  or  disorderly;  to 
  collect  in  company.  [obs.]  --Bacon. 
 
  In  all  that  land  no  Christian[s]  durste  route. 
  --Chaucer. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  rout 
  n  1:  a  disorderly  crowd  of  people  [syn:  {mob},  {rabble}] 
  2:  a  defeat  in  battle  [syn:  {discomfit},  {discomfiture}] 
  v  1:  cause  to  flee  [syn:  {rout  out},  {expel}] 
  2:  dig  with  the  snout;  "the  pig  was  rooting  for  truffles"  [syn: 
  {root},  {rootle}] 
  3:  make  a  groove  in  [syn:  {gouge},  {groove}] 
  4:  defeat  disastrously  [syn:  {spread-eagle},  {spreadeagle}] 

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