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A kind of wide loose drawers or trousers worn by women in Mohammedan countries.

equal or equivalent; less (than); -- with of. Hardly anything short of an invasion could rouse them again to war. Landor.

Coverings for the legs of men or boys, consisting of trousers which reach only to the knees, -- worn with long stockings.

A kind of large, coarse, short trousers formerly worn. [Local, U. S.] Bartlett.

To awake or excite to action; to rouse desire in; to summon; to appeal to; to invite. That fruit . . . solicited her longing eye. Milton. Sounds and some tangible qualities solicit their proper senses, and force an entrance to the mind. Locke.

Profound sleep from which a person can be roused only with difficulty.

The sharp-tailed grouse. [Local, U.S.]

To cause to spring up; to start or rouse, as game; to cause to rise from the earth, or from a covert; as, to spring a pheasant.

One who, or that which, springs; specifically, one who rouses game.

ured or flavored with spruce, either by means of the extract or by decoction. -- Spruce grouse. (Zoöl.) Same as Spruce partridge, below. -- Spruce leather. See Spruce, n., 3. -- Spruce partridge (Zoöl.), a handsome American grouse (Dendragapus Canadensis) found in Canada and the Northern United States; -- called als…

ves upon the stag and in usually wingless. The same species lives also upon the European grouse, but in that case has wings.

To cause to move suddenly; to disturb suddenly; to startle; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee or fly; as, the hounds started a fox. Upon malicious bravery dost thou come To start my quiet Shak. Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Cæsar. Shak.

A dog that rouses game.

To excite as if with a goad; to excite, rouse, or animate, to action or more vigorous exertion by some pungent motive or by persuasion; as, to stimulate one by the hope of reward, or by the prospect of glory. To excite and stimulate us thereunto. Dr. J. Scott.

A goad; hence, something that rouses the mind or spirits; an incentive; as, the hope of gain is a powerful stimulus to labor and action.

To incite to action; to arouse; to instigate; to prompt; to excite. "To stir men to devotion." Chaucer. An Ate, stirring him to blood and strife. Shak. And for her sake some mutiny will stir. Dryden.

Hopelessly insensible or stupid; not easily aroused or excited; dull; impassive; foolish.

To rouse; to excite. [Obs.] Daniel.

To rouse; to excite; to call into life and action. [Obs.]

nds; esp., one of a pair of straps or braces worn over the shoulders, for holding up the trousers.