rout4 (rout)

[ Spur through Media, Me so pot am i a, and the shelters whither The routed fly. Shak., A. and C., iii. 1. 9. Come, come, my Lord, we're routed Horse and Foot. Steele , Grief A-la-Mode, ii. 1. O sound to rout the brood of cares, The sweep of scythe in morning dew! Tennyson, In Memoriam, lxxxix. They were routed in the house, routed in the Courts, and routed before the people. Theodore Parker , Historic Americans, iii. 2. To drive or force, as from a state of repose, concealment, or the like; urge or incite to movement or activity; hence, to draw or drag (forth or out): generally with out or up: as, to rout out a lot of intruders; to rout up a sleeper; to rout out a secret hoard or a recondite fact. See router - out. Routed out at length from her hiding place. Barham , In golds by Legends, I. 128. =Syn. 1. Overwhelm, Overthrow, etc. See defeat . II. in trans. 11. To crowd or be driven into a rout 5248 rove from a state of repose. [Colloq.] We have routed night after night from our warm quar ters, in the dead of winter, to make fires, etc. Good Housekeeping , quoted in The Advance, Sept. 2, 1886.