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n. [ G. kraut. ] See Sourkrout. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. cro&unr_;ton, fr. cro&unr_;te a crust. ] (Cookery) Bread cut in various forms, and fried lightly in butter or oil, to garnish hashes, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ Cf. OF. desrouter, F. dérouter. ] To put to rout. Taylor (1630). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Drought. Sandys. [ 1913 Webster ]

Another ill accident is drouth at the spindling of corn. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

One whose drouth [ thirst ],
Yet scarce allayed, still eyes the current stream. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

In the dust and drouth of London life. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Droughty. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ F. ] On the way or road. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. grūt; akin to grytt, G. grütze, griess, Icel. grautr, Lith. grudas corn, kernel, and E. groats. ] 1. Coarse meal; ground malt; pl. groats. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Formerly, a kind of beer or ale. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. pl. Lees; dregs; grounds. [ Eng. ] “Grouts of tea.” Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A thin, coarse mortar, used for pouring into the joints of masonry and brickwork; also, a finer material, used in finishing the best ceilings. Gwilt. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Grouted; p. pr. & vb. n. Grouting. ] To fill up or finish with grout, as the joints between stones. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Obs. ] See Growthead. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The process of filling in or finishing with grout; also, the grout thus filled in. Gwilt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Groat, and Noll, n. ] [ Obs. ] Same as Growthead. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Cross; sulky; sullen. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

. The namaycush. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A tumultuous crowd; a rabble; a noisy throng. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Rout. ] 1. Tumultuous festivity; revelry. [ Obs. ] Rowe. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A rabble; a riotous assembly; a mob. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ AS. hrūtan. ] To roar; to bellow; to snort; to snore loudly. [ Obs. or Scot. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A bellowing; a shouting; noise; clamor; uproar; disturbance; tumult. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

This new book the whole world makes such a rout about. Sterne. [ 1913 Webster ]

“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. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ A variant of root. ] To scoop out with a gouge or other tool; to furrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To search or root in the ground, as a swine. Edwards. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

And ever he rode the hinderest of the route. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

A rout of people there assembled were. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A disorderly and tumultuous crowd; a mob; hence, the rabble; the herd of common people. [ 1913 Webster ]

the endless routs of wretched thralls. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

The ringleader and head of all this rout. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nor do I name of men the common rout. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

thy army . . .
Dispersed in rout, betook them all to fly. Daniel. [ 1913 Webster ]

To these giad conquest, murderous rout to those. pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A fashionable assembly, or large evening party. “At routs and dances.” Landor. [ 1913 Webster ]

To put to rout, to defeat and throw into confusion; to overthrow and put to flight. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Routed; p. pr. & vb. n. Routing. ] To break the ranks of, as troops, and put them to flight in disorder; to put to rout. [ 1913 Webster ]

That party . . . that charged the Scots, so totally routed and defeated their whole army, that they fied. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To defeat; discomfit; overpower; overthrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To assemble in a crowd, whether orderly or disorderly; to collect in company. [ obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

In all that land no Christian[ s ] durste route. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

A kind of rich sweet cake made for routs, or evening parties.

Twenty-four little rout cakes that were lying neglected in a plate. Thackeray. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ OE. & F. route, OF. rote, fr. L. rupta (sc. via), fr. ruptus, p. p. of rumpere to break; hence, literally, a broken or beaten way or path. See Rout, and cf. Rut a track. ] The course or way which is traveled or passed, or is to be passed; a passing; a course; a road or path; a march. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wide through the furzy field their route they take. Gay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Carp.) (a) A plane made like a spokeshave, for working the inside edges of circular sashes. (b) A plane with a hooked tool protruding far below the sole, for smoothing the bottom of a cavity. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mach.) A machine with a rapidly revolving vertical spindle and cutter for scooping out the surface of wood or metal, as between and around the engraved parts of an electrotype. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. Ruth; sorrow. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Involving, or pertaining to, routine; ordinary; customary. [ R. ] Emerson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. route a path, way, road. See Route, Roterepetition. ] 1. A round of business, amusement, or pleasure, daily or frequently pursued; especially, a course of business or offical duties regularly or frequently returning. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any regular course of action or procedure rigidly adhered to by the mere force of habit. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the practice of doing things with undiscriminating, mechanical regularity. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who habituated to a routine. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Uproarious; riotous. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. (Law) With that violation of law called a rout. See 5th Rout, 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Zool.) (a) Any one of several species of true trouts which descend rivers and enter the sea after spawning, as the European bull trout and salmon trout, and the eastern American spotted trout. (b) The common squeteague, and the spotted squeteague. (c) A California fish of the family Chiridae, especially Hexagrammus decagrammus; -- called also spotted rock trout. See Rock trout, under Rock. (d) A California sciaenoid fish (Cynoscion nobilis); -- called also white sea bass. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Sauerkraut. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Sauerkraut. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Sprouted; p. pr. & vb. n. Sprouting. ] [ OE. sprouten, spruten; akin to OFries. sprūta, AS. spreótan, D. spruiten, G. spriessen, Sw. spruta to squirt, to spout. Cf. Sprit, v. t. & i., Sprit a spar, Spout, v. t., Spurt. ] 1. To shoot, as the seed of a plant; to germinate; to push out new shoots; hence, to grow like shoots of plants. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To shoot into ramifications. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To cause to sprout; as, the rain will sprout the seed. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To deprive of sprouts; as, to sprout potatoes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. AS. sprote a sprout, sprig; akin to Icel. sproti, G. sprosse. See Sprout, v. i. ] 1. The shoot of a plant; a shoot from the seed, from the stump, or from the root or tuber, of a plant or tree; more rarely, a shoot from the stem of a plant, or the end of a branch. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. Young coleworts; Brussels sprouts. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Brussels sprouts (Bot.) See under Brussels. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ See Strut. ] To swell; to puff out; to project. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cause to project or swell out; to enlarge affectedly; to strut. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. truht, L. tructa, tructus; akin to Gr. trw`kths a sea fish with sharp teeth, fr. trw`gein to gnaw. ] 1. (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of fishes belonging to Salmo, Salvelinus, and allied genera of the family Salmonidae. They are highly esteemed as game fishes and for the quality of their flesh. All the species breed in fresh water, but after spawning many of them descend to the sea if they have an opportunity. [ 1913 Webster ]

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☞ The most important European species are the river, or brown, trout (Salmo fario), the salmon trout, and the sewen. The most important American species are the brook, speckled, or red-spotted, trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) of the Northern United States and Canada; the red-spotted trout, or Dolly Varden (see Malma); the lake trout (see Namaycush); the black-spotted, mountain, or silver, trout (Salmo purpuratus); the golden, or rainbow, trout (see under Rainbow); the blueback trout (see Oquassa); and the salmon trout (see under Salmon.) The European trout has been introduced into America. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Any one of several species of marine fishes more or less resembling a trout in appearance or habits, but not belonging to the same family, especially the California rock trouts, the common squeteague, and the southern, or spotted, squeteague; -- called also salt-water trout, sea trout, shad trout, and gray trout. See Squeteague, and Rock trout under Rock. [ 1913 Webster ]

Trout perch (Zool.), a small fresh-water American fish (Percopsis guttatus), allied to the trout, but resembling a perch in its scales and mouth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The American golden plover. [ Local, U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. White, with spots of black, bay, or sorrel; as, a trout-colored horse. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A little trout; a troutling. Hood. [ 1913 Webster ]