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A preparation from acorns used by the Arabs as a substitute for chocolate, and also as a beverage for invalids.

A small sloop-rigged racing yacht carrying about six hundred square feet of sail, distinguished from a knockabout by having a short bowsprit.

A dish made of pieces of meat, stewed, and highly seasoned; as, a ragout of mutton.

y one of several species of marine food fishes of the genus Diabasis, or Hæmulon, of the Southern United States, having the inside of the mouth bright red. Called also flannelmouth, and grunt.

Tumultuous festivity; revelry. [Obs.] Rowe.

A turning directly about by the right, so as to face in the opposite direction; also, the quarter directly opposite; as, to turn to the right-about. To send to the right-about, to cause to turn toward the opposite point or quarter; -- hence, of troops, to cause to turn and retreat. [Colloq.] Sir W. Scott.…

See Sheepback.

Circuitous; going round; indirect; as, roundabout speech. We have taken a terrible roundabout road. Burke.

The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.

A laborer, especially a deck hand, on a river steamboat, who moves the cargo, loads and unloads wood, and the like; in an opprobrious sense, a shiftless vagrant who lives by chance jobs. [Western U.S.]

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.

A kind of rich sweet cake made for routs, or evening parties.

passed; a passing; a course; a road or path; a march. Wide through the furzy field their route they take. Gay.

A plane made like a spokeshave, for working the inside edges of circular sashes.

Ruth; sorrow. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Involving, or pertaining to, routine; ordinary; customary. [R.] Emerson.

A round of business, amusement, or pleasure, daily or frequently pursued; especially, a course of business or offical duties regularly or frequently returning.

the practice of doing things with undiscriminating, mechanical regularity.

One who habituated to a routine.

Uproarious; riotous. [Obs.]