Rout (rout), v. i. [AS. hrūtan.] To roar; to bellow; to snort; to snore loudly. [Obs. or Scot.] Chaucer.
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Rout, v. t. [A variant of root.] To scoop out with a gouge or other tool; to furrow.
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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.]
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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.
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And ever he rode the hinderest of the route. Chaucer.
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A rout of people there assembled were. Spenser.
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2. A disorderly and tumultuous crowd; a mob; hence, the rabble; the herd of common people.
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the endless routs of wretched thralls. Spenser.
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The ringleader and head of all this rout. Shak.
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Nor do I name of men the common rout. Milton.
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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.
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thy army . . .
Dispersed in rout, betook them all to fly. Daniel.
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To these giad conquest, murderous rout to those. pope.
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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.
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5. A fashionable assembly, or large evening party. “At routs and dances.” Landor.
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To put to rout, to defeat and throw into confusion; to overthrow and put to flight.
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Rout, v. i. To assemble in a crowd, whether orderly or disorderly; to collect in company. [obs.] Bacon.
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In all that land no Christian[s] durste route. Chaucer.
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