Rout

v. i.	1.	To roar; to bellow; to snort; to snore loudly.
n.	1.	A bellowing; a shouting; noise; clamor; uproar; disturbance; tumult. 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.
v. t.	1.	To scoop out with a gouge or other tool; to furrow. 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.
v. i.	1.	To search or root in the ground, as a swine.
n.	1.	A troop; a throng; a company; an assembly; especially, a traveling company or throng. And ever he rode the hinderest of the route. - Chaucer. A rout of people there assembled were. - Spenser.
	2.	A disorderly and tumultuous crowd; a mob; hence, the rabble; the herd of common people. the endless routs of wretched thralls. - Spenser. The ringleader and head of all this rout. - Shak. Nor do I name of men the common rout. - Milton.
	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. thy army . . . Dispersed in rout, betook them all to fly. - Daniel. To these giad conquest, murderous rout to those. - pope.
	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.
	5.	A fashionable assembly, or large evening party. To put to rout to defeat and throw into confusion; to overthrow and put to flight.
v. t.	1.	To break the ranks of, as troops, and put them to flight in disorder; to put to rout. [imp. & p. p. Routed; p. pr. & vb. n. Routing.] That party . . . that charged the Scots, so totally routed and defeated their whole army, that they fied. - Clarendon.
v. i.	1.	To assemble in a crowd, whether orderly or disorderly; to collect in company. In all that land no Christian[s] durste route. - Chaucer.

Noun	1.	rout - a disorderly crowd of people Synonyms: mob, rabble
	2.	rout - an overwhelming defeat
Verb	1.	rout - cause to flee; "rout out the fighters from their caves" Synonyms: rout out, expel
	2.	rout - dig with the snout; "the pig was rooting for truffles" Synonyms: rootle, root
	3.	rout - make a groove in Synonyms: gouge
	4.	rout - defeat disastrously Synonyms: spreadeagle, spread-eagle

ROUT, crim. law. A disturbance of the peace by persons assembled together with an intention to do a thing, which, if executed, would have made them rioters, and actually making a motion towards the execution of their purpose.
     2. It generally agrees in all particulars with a riot, except only in this, that it may be a complete offence without the execution of the intended enterprise. Hawk. c. 65, s. 14; 1 Russ. on Cr. 253; 4 Bl. Com. 140; Vin. Abr. Riots, &c., A 2 Com. Dig. Forcible Entry, D 9.

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