rout 
or from any external force. 2. To start up 
hurriedly; turn out suddenly or reluctantly, as 
from a state of repose. [Colloq. ] 
We have routed night after night from our warm quar- 
ters, in the dead of winter, to make flres, etc. 
Good Housekeeping, quoted in The Advance, Sept. 2, 1888. 
rout 5 (rout), H. See route*. 
rout 6 (rout), . [< Icel. lirota, the barnacle- 
goose, in comp. lirotgas = Norw. rotgaas = Dan. 
rodgaas (> E. dial. (Orkneys) roodgoose), the 
barnacle-goose. Cf. routhcrocl:] The brent- 
or brant-goose, Berniela brenta. Encyc. Diet. 
rout-cake (rout'kak),w. A rich sweet cake made 
for evening parties. [Eng.] 
The audience . . . waited . . . with the utmost pa- 
tience, being enlivened by an interlude of rout cotes and 
lemonade. Dickens, Sketches, Mrs. Joseph Porter. 
route 1 (rot or rout), n. [Now spelled route and 
usually pron. rot, after mod. F. ; historically the 
proper spelling is rout (rout), or, shortened, rut 
(rut), now used in a restricted sense (cf. rote 1 , 
a fourth form of the same word) : < ME. route, 
rute, a way, course, track (see ruft), < OF. route, 
rote, rute, a way, path, street, course, a glade 
in a wood, F. route, a way, course, route, = Sp. 
rota, ruta = Pg. rota (naut.), a way, course, < 
ML. ntpta, also, after Rom., rutta, rotta, rota, 
a way, path, orig. (so. via) a way broken or cut 
through a forest, fern, of L. ruptus, broken: 
see rout 3 , rout*.'] 1. A way; road; path ; space 
for passage. 
He gave the route to the blue-bloused peasant. 
Shawl, Shooting the Rapids, I. 97. 
2. A way or course of transit ; a line of travel, 
passage, or progression ; the course passed or 
to be passed over in reaching a destination, or 
(by extension) an object or a purpose; as a 
legal or engineering term, the horizontal direc- 
tion along and near the surface of the earth of a 
way or course, as a road, a railway, or a canal, 
occupied or to be occupied for travel. 
Wide through the furzy field their route they take, 
Their bleeding bosoms force the thorny brake. 
Gay, Rural Sports, ii. 100. 
Ocean-lane route, see lane-route. Overland route. 
See overland. Star route, in the United States, a post- 
route over which the mail is carried, under contract, by 
other means than steam : so called because the blank con- 
tracts for transportation of the mail over such routes have 
printed upon them three groups of four stars or asterisks 
each, to identify them as coining under the terms of the 
act. which refers only to " celerity, certainty, and secur- 
ity " in the mode of transportation for which words the 
groups of stars respectively stand. The name became 
famous from the discovery of extensive frauds in the pro- 
curement and execution of star-route contracts, which 
led in 1881-2 and in 1883 to the indictment and trial of 
many persons, of whom a few were convicted. To get 
the route (milit.), to receive orders to quit one station 
for another. 
The Colonel calls it [a rose] "Marching Orders." . . . 
Whenever it settled and began to flower the regiment got 
the route. J. H. Ewing, Story of a Short Life, iii. 
route 2 ! (rout), v. and n. An obsolete form of 
rout 1 , rout*, rout 3 , rout*. 
router (rou'ter), n. [< rout 2 + -er l . ] In carp., 
a sash-plane made like a spokeshave, to work 
on sashes Eouter-gage, in inlaid work, a gage used 
in cutting out the narrow channels in which metal or 
colored woods are to be laid. It is similar to a common 
marking-gage, but instead of the marking-point has a 
narrow chisel as a cutter. Router-plane, a kind of 
plane used for working out the bottoms of rectangular 
cavities. The sole of the plane 
is broad, and carries a narrow 
cutter which projects from it 
as far as the intended depth of 
the cavity. This plane is vul- 
garly called old woman's tooth. 
Router-saw, a sav used 
for routing. In setting it, 
every alternate tooth is left in 
the plane of the saw. In flung 
it, the teeth which are set are 
filed much like those of the 
cross-cut hand-saw, while the 
teeth not set are filed more 
chisel-edged. 
router (rou'ter), r. t. [< router, .] In wood- 
working, to cut away, or cut out, as material 
below a general surface, leaving some parts, 
figures, or designs in relief; rout. 
router-out (rou'ter-onf ), n. One who routs out, 
or drives or draws forth, as from repose, con- 
cealment, or the like. [Colloq.] 
He is a fair scholar, well up in Herodotus, and a grand 
router-out of antiquities. Quarterly Rev., CXLV. 110. 
route-Step (rb't'step), . An order of march in 
which soldiers are not required to keep step or 
remain silent, and may carry their arms at will, 
provided the muzzles are elevated. 
routh 1 !, ' An obsolete form of ruth. 
routh 2 (routh), a. [Also rtncth; cf. W. rliatli, 
wide, gaping, rliotli, loose, hollow.] Plentiful ; 
abundant. Jamicson. [Scotch.] 
5248 
routh 2 (routh), w. [Also roirth : see routh 2 , n.] 
Plenty; abundance. [Scotch.] 
Lat never a man a wooing wend 
That lacketh thingis three : 
A routh o' gould, an open heart, 
Ay fu' o' charity. 
King Henry (Child's Ballads, I. 147). 
routherock, . [Also routliurrock. Cf. rof 6 .] 
The barnacle-goose, Berniclti Icucopsis. 
routhie (rou'thi), a. [Also rowthie; < routh 2 + 
-ie (-0 1 ).] Plentiful; well-filled; abundant. 
[Scotch.] 
Wait a wee, an' cannie wale [choose] 
A routhie butt, a routhie ben ; . . . 
It 's plenty beets the luver's flre. 
Burnt, The Country Lassie. 
routier (ro-ti-a'), . [F., < OF. routier, < ML. 
ruptarius, rutarius, a trooper, mercenary sol- 
dier, a mounted freebooter, < rupta, a troop, 
band: see rout 3 ; see also rutter 1 , from the same 
source.] 1. One of a class of French brigands 
of about the twelfth century, who infested the 
roads in companies on horse or foot, and some- 
times served as military mercenaries. They 
differed little from earlier and later organiza- 
tions of the same kind throughout Europe, un- 
der various names. 2. Hence, any undisci- 
plined, plundering soldier, or brigand. 
routinary (ro-te'na-ri), a. [< routine + -urij. 
Cf. F. routinier, routinist.] Involving or pertain- 
ing to routine; customary; ordinary. [Rare.] 
He retreats into his routinary existence, which is quite 
separate from his scientific. Emerson, Works and Days. 
routine (ro-ten'), . and a. [= Sp. rutina = Pg. 
rotitia, < F. routine, OF. routine, rotine, rottine, 
a beaten path, usual course of action, dim. of 
route, rote, a way, path, course, route : see route 1 
and rote 1 .] I. n. 1. A customary course of ac- 
tion or round of occupation ; a way or method 
systematically followed ; regular recurrence of 
the same acts or kind of action : as, the routine 
of official duties; to weary of a monotonous 
routine. 
The very ordinary routine of the day. 
Brougham, Lord Chatham. 
2. Fixed habit or method in action ; the habit- 
ual doing of the same things in the same way ; 
unvarying procedure or conduct. 
A restlessness and excitement of mind hostile to the 
spirit of routine. Buckle, Hist. Civilization, I. xiv. 
That beneficent harness of routine which enables silly 
men to live respectably and unhappy men to live calmly. 
George Eliot, Middlemarch, livi. 
II. . Habitually practised or acting in the 
same way ; following or consisting in an unva- 
rying round: as, routine methods or duties; a 
routine official. 
The tendency of such a system is to make mere routine 
men. J. R. Soley, Blockade and Cruisers, p. 5. 
routineer (vo-ti-ner'), n. [< routine + -eer.~\ 
One who follows routine ; an adherent of settled 
custom or opinion. [Rare.] 
The mere routineer in gas-making has been shaken out 
of his complacency. Sci. Amer., N. S., LXII. 269. 
routing-machine (rou'ting-ma-shen'), H. A 
shaping-machine or shaper for wood, metal, or 
Stone. It works by means of catting apparatus revolv- 
ing above a bed with universal horizontal adjustment, and 
Router-plane. 
a, stock ; b, plane-iron or 
jt. Routing-machine for general purposes, fi. Stair-router, used 
in cutting the grooves in the strings of stairs for the reception of the 
ends of the steps and risers. C, Router-tools. 
a, table ; f>, pedestal ; c, cutter, whose spindle is driven by the 
belts d, d; e, main driving-pulley \S,S, swinging arms or frames by 
means of which the cutter can be moved to any place on the table ; 
f, handle by which_/',./ r are operated by a workman who follows with 
the cutter a guiding former or pattern ; f 1 , handle sometimes used in 
manipulating the machine ; ft, clamp which binds the work to the 
table ; i, adjusting screw, for regulating depth of cut. 
cuts the work to a shape or grooves it to a fixed depth. It 
executes paneling in relief or intaglio, lettering, slotting, 
key-seating, beveling, bordering, etc. E. H. Knight. 
routing-tool (rou'ting-to'l), . In metal-work- 
ing, a revolving cutter used for cutting or scrap- 
ing out scores, channels, and depressions. 
routinism (ro-te'nizm), H. [< routine + -/./.] 
The spirit or practice of routine ; a rigid and 
rove 
unvarying course of action or opinion ; routine 
method or manner. 
He deprecated routinism, automatism, mechanical pre- 
scription in medicine, and vindicated the value of living 
personal observation and opinion. 
Lancet, No. 3449, p. 703. 
routinist (ro-te'nist), n. [< routine + -ist.~\ 
An adherent of routine ; a follower of unvary- 
ing methods or prescribed principles : as, a rou- 
tinist in medicine, in education, etc. 
The mere routinists and unthinking artisans in most 
callings dislike whatever shakes the dust out of their tra- 
ditions. 0. W. Holmes, Med. Essays, Pref. 
routisht (rou'tish), a. [< rout 1 + -is* 1 .] Char- 
acterized by routing ; clamorous ; disorderly. 
The Common Hall . . . became a routiih assembly of 
sorry citizens. Roger North, Examen, p. 93. (Danes.) 
TOUtle (rou'tl), r. t. ; pret. and pp. routled, ppr. 
routling. [Var. of rootle, freq. of root 2 , var. 
rout 2 ."} To rout out; disturb. Davies. [Prov. 
Eng.] 
A misdoubt me if there were a felly there as would ha' 
thought o' routling out yon wasps' nest. 
Mrs. GaskeU, Sylvia's Lovers, xxiii. 
routous (rou'tus), a. [< roufl + -OMS.] Noisv. 
Halliteell. [Prov. Eng.] 
routously (rou'tus-li), adv. [< routous + -<y 2 .] 
Noisily. Imp. Diet. 
roux (ro), n. [< F. roux, a sauce made with 
brown butter or fat, < roux, red, reddish, < L. 
russun, red: see russet 1 .'] In cookery, a mate- 
rial composed of melted butter and flour, used 
to thicken soups and gravies. 
Rouz's operation. See operation. 
rouzet (rouz), r. An obsolete form of rouse*. 
rove 1 (rov), v. ; pret. and pp. rored, ppr. roving. 
[A back formation, < rover, a robber, used 
generally in the sense of ' a wandering robber,' 
and hence taken as simply 'a wanderer.' The 
Icel. rafa, rove, stray about, is not related.] 
1. intrans. 1. To wander at pleasure or with- 
out definite aim; pass the time in going about 
freely; range at random, or as accident or 
fancy may determine ; roam ; ramble. 
The Fauns forsake the Woods, the Nymphs the Grove, 
And round the Plain in sad Distractions rove. 
Congreve, Death of Queen Mary. 
I view'd th' effects of that disastrous flame, 
Which, kindled by th' imperious queen of love, 
Constraint me from my native realm to rove. 
Fenton, in Pope's Odyssey, iv. 360. 
Let us suppose a roving crew of these soaring philoso- 
phers, In the course of an aerial voyage of discovery among 
the stars, should chance to alight upon this outlandish 
planet. Irving, Knickerbocker, p. 70. 
2. To aim, as in archery or other sport, espe- 
cially at some accidental or casual mark. See 
roving marl; below. 
Faire Venus sonne, that with thy cruell dart 
At that good knight so cunningly didst roue. 
Spenser, F. Q., I., Pro!., st. 3. 
Mont. How now, are thy arrows feather'd? 
Vel. Well enough for roving. 
Shirley, Maid's Revenge, i. 2. 
And if you rove for a Perch with a minnow, then it is 
best to be alive. I. Walton, Complete Angler, p. 167. 
This raring archery was far prettier than the stationary 
game, but success in shooting at variable marks was less 
favored by practice. George Eliot, Daniel Deronda, xiv. 
3. To act the rover; lead a wandering life of 
robbery, especially on the high seas ; rob. 
To Roue, robbe, rapere. Levint, Manip. Vocab. , p. 179. 
And so to the number of forescore of them departed with 
a barke and a pinnesse, spoiling their store of victuall, and 
taking away a great part thereof with them, and so went 
to the Islands of Hispaniola and Jamaica a rotting. 
Hakluyt'i Voyages, III. 517. 
4. To have rambling thoughts ; be in a delir- 
ium; rave; be light-headed; hence, to be in 
high spirits ; be full of fun and frolic. [Scotch.] 
Roving mark, in archery, an accidental mark, in con- 
tradistinction to butts and targets : trees, bushes, posts, 
mounds of earth, landmarks, stones, etc., are roving 
marks. Hansard, Archery. = Syn. 1. Roam, Wander, etc. 
See ramble, v. 
II. trans. 1. To wander over; roam about. 
For Arthur, long before they crown'd him King, 
Rotting the trackless realms of Lyonuesse, 
Had found a glen. Tennyson, Lancelot and Elaine. 
2f. To discharge or shoot, as an arrow, at rov- 
ers, or in roving. See roi'er, 5. 
And well I see this writer roves a shaft 
Nere fairest marke, yet happily not hit it. 
Harington, Ep. iv. 11. (Wares.) 
3. To plow into ridges, as a field, by turning 
one furrow upon another. [Prov. Eng. and 
U.S.] 
rove 1 (rov), n. [<rore 1 , c.] The act of roving; 
a ramble ; a wandering. 
In thy nocturnal rove, one moment halt. 
Young, Night Thoughts, ix. 
