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1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of rouse.

   Ill huſbandry drowſeth at fortune ſo awke, / good huſbandry rowſeth him ſelfe like a hawke.

   1570, Thomas Tusser, “Comparing Good Husband with Vnthrift His Brother, the Better Descerneth the Tone from the Tother”, in A Hundrethe Good Pointes of Husbandrie, Lately Maried vnto a Hundrethe Good Points of Huswifry Newly Corrected and Amplified […], revised edition, London: […] [Henry Denham? for] Rychard Tottyl, published 1571, →OCLC, stanza 13, folio 22, verso

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   Thee water is rowſed, they [two serpents] do friſke with floűce [flounce] to yͤ ſhoare ward, / Thee land with ſtaring eyes bluddy and firie beholding: […]

   1582, “The Second Booke of Virgil His Æneis”, in Richard Stanyhurst, transl., The First Foure Bookes of Virgils Æneis, […], London: […] Henrie Bynneman […], published 1583, →OCLC, page 27

   [S]he caſt her dewed eyes aſ kance, / And ſpying me, gan rovvſe her heauie head, / And praide me pen her ſad and heauie chance, / And ſhe recounted it that preſent ſted, […]

   1584, Thomas Lodge, “Truths Complaint ouer England”, in An Alarum against Usurers. […], London: […] T[homas] Este, for Sampson Clarke, […], →OCLC, folio 37, verso

   [T]he truth beeing reuealed, enlighteneth reaſon; and that reaſon rovvſeth vp her ſelfe to reſt vpon truth.

   1587, Philip of Mornay [i.e., Philippe de Mornay], “The Preface to the Reader”, in Philip Sidney, Arthur Golding, transl., A Woorke Concerning the Trewnesse of the Christian Religion, […], London: […] [John Charlewood and] George Robinson for Thomas Cadman, […], →OCLC

   With that his Brother began to ſtirre, and the Lion to rowſe himſelfe: whereupon Roſader ſodainely charged him with the Boare ſpeare, and wounded the Lion verie ſore at the firſt ſtroake.

   1590, T[homas] L[odge], “Rosaders Meditation”, in Rosalynde. Euphues Golden Legacie: […], London: […] Thomas Orwin for T. G[ubbin] and John Busbie, →OCLC, folio 39, recto

   […] Henry Bullingbrooke and hee / Being mounted, and both rovvſed in their Seates, / Their neighing Courſers daring of the Spurre, […]

   c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 19, column 2

plural rowses

1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of rouse

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   [K]ing Antiochus, vvho likened Hermogenes the famous Orator of Greece, vnto theſe fovvles in their moulting time, vvhen their feathers be ſick, and be ſo loaſe in the fleſh that at any little rovvſe they can eaſilie ſhake them off: ſo ſaith he, can Hermogenes of all the men that euer I knevv, as eaſilie deliuer from him his vaine and impertinent ſpeeches and vvords.

   1589, attributed to George Puttenham, “What It is that Generally Makes Our Speach Well Pleasing & Commendable, and of that which the Latines Call Decorum”, in The Arte of English Poesie. […], London: […] Richard Field, […], →OCLC, 3rd booke (Of Ornament), page 222

plural rowses

1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of rouse

   I'le aſſure ye / She vvill not ſee you: ſhe has heard, […] your ſeverall miſcheifes, / Your rovvſes, and your vvenches: […]

   1610–1616 (date written), Iohn [i.e., John] Fletcher, Monsieur Thomas. A Comedy. […], London: […] Thomas Harper, for Iohn Waterson, […], published 1639, →OCLC, Act I, scene ii, signature C, verso

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   No iocond health that Denmarke drinkes to day, / But the great Cannon to the cloudes ſhall tell. / And the Kings rovvſe the heauen ſhall brute againe, / Reſpeaking earthly thunder; come avvay.

   c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (Second Quarto), London: […] I[ames] R[oberts] for N[icholas] L[ing] […], published 1604, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], signature C, recto

   He [Nestor] vvas obſerved to take his rovvſe freely, and more at the ſiege of Troy, then the Generall Agamemnon, vvhom Achilles upbraided for his immoderate drinking: […]

   1635, Tho: Fæni-lignum [pseudonym; Thomas Heywood], “An Catalogue of Sundry Helluoes, and Great Quaffers amongst the Grecians: Infamous for Their Vinosity”, in Philocothonista, or, The Drvnkard, Opened, Dissected, and Anatomized, London: […] Robert Raworth, […], →OCLC, page 10

   [Amyas] invited as many of his old schoolfellows, one by one apart, as Frank had pointed out to him, to a merry supper and a "rowse" thereon consequent; […]

   1855, Charles Kingsley, “How the Noble Brotherhood of the Rose was Founded”, in Westward Ho!: Or, The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, […], volume I, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, page 279

plural Rowses

1. A surname.