rouse

An arousal.

The sounding of a bugle in the morning after reveille, to signal that soldiers are to rise from bed, often the rouse.

To wake (someone) from sleep, or from apathy.

John Hedley was Locomotive Foreman at Beattock. He was in bed, but they roused him, and he gave orders for one of his pilot engines to go up to the summit, get Mitchell's train, and take it to Carlisle.

Dubin slept through the ringing alarm, aware of Kitty trying to rouse him and then letting him sleep.

To be awoken from sleep, or from apathy.

Good things of day begin to droop and drowse; Night’s black agents to their preys do rouse.

As for the heat, with which he treated his other adversaries, ’twas sometimes strain’d a little too far, but in the general was extremely well fitted by the Providence of God to rowse up a people, the most phlegmatic of any in Christendome.

To cause, stir up, excite (a feeling, thought, etc.).

to rouse the faculties, passions, or emotions

[…] their first Step in Dangers, after the common Efforts are over, was always to despair, lie down under it, and die, without rousing their Thoughts up to proper Remedies for Escape.

To provoke (someone) to action or anger.

He scarce had finisht, when such murmur filld Th’ Assembly, as when hollow Rocks retain The sound of blustring winds, which all night long Had rous’d the Sea […]

“A surgeon!” said Anne. He caught the word; it seemed to rouse him at once, and saying only—“True, true, a surgeon this instant,” was darting away, when Anne eagerly suggested— “Captain Benwick, would not it be better for Captain Benwick? […]”

To cause to start from a covert or lurking place.

to rouse a deer or other animal of the chase

Deformed creatures, in straunge difference, Some hauing heads like Harts, some like to Snakes, Some like wilde Bores late rouzd out of the brakes,

An official ceremony over drinks.

No jocund health that Denmark drinks to-day But the great cannon to the clouds shall tell, And the King’s rouse the heaven shall bruit again, Respeaking earthly thunder.

A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.

Fill the cup, and fill the can: Have a rouse before the morn: Every minute dies a man, Every minute one is born.

Wine or other liquor considered an inducement to mirth or drunkenness; a full glass; a bumper.