roust, roost2 (rost)

[Also rost; IMG:content-2532.png:[blocks in formation] They have many profe ed Phisicians, who with their charmes and Rattles, with an infernal rout of words and actions, will see me to sucke their inward griefe from their navels. Capt . John Smith , Works, I. 137. Not school boys at a barring out Rais'd ever such ince ant rout . Swift , Journal of a Modern Lady. Sir Robert, who makes as much rout with him [a dog] as I do, says he never saw ten people show so much real H. Walpole , To Mann, Oct. 8, 1742. IMG:content-2533.png:[blocks in formation] When snouted wild-boars, routing tender corn, Anger our huntsman. Keats , Endymion, i. 2. In mech ., to deepen; scoop out; cut out; dig out, as moldings, the spaces between and around block-letters, bookbinders' stamps, etc. II. in trans . To root; rummage or poke about. What'll they say to me if I go a routing and rookling in their drains, like an old sow by the wayside? Kingsley, Two Years Ago, xiv.