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. [ 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. 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. ]