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▸ noun:  An arousal.
▸ noun:  (military, British and Canada) The sounding of a bugle in the morning after reveille, to signal that soldiers are to rise from bed, often the rouse.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To wake (someone) from sleep, or from apathy.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To be awoken from sleep, or from apathy.
▸ verb:  To cause, stir up, excite (a feeling, thought, etc.).
▸ verb:  To provoke (someone) to action or anger.
▸ verb:  To cause to start from a covert or lurking place.
▸ verb:  (nautical) To pull by main strength; to haul.
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To raise; to make erect.
▸ verb:  (slang, when followed by "on") To tell off; to criticise.
▸ noun:  An official ceremony over drinks.
▸ noun:  A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.
▸ noun:  Wine or other liquor considered an inducement to mirth or drunkenness; a full glass; a bumper.
▸ noun:  A surname.
▸ noun:  A census-designated place in Stanislaus County, California, United States.
▸ noun:  An unincorporated community in the town of Anderson, Iron County, Wisconsin.

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