Rout /(rout)/

1. To roar; to bellow; to snort; to snore loudly. [Obs. or Scot.]

1. A bellowing; a shouting; noise; clamor; uproar; disturbance; tumult.

   This new book the whole world makes such a rout about.

   “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.”

1. To scoop out with a gouge or other tool; to furrow.

1. To search or root in the ground, as a swine.

1. A troop; a throng; a company; an assembly; especially, a traveling company or throng. [Obs.]

   And ever he rode the hinderest of the route.

   A rout of people there assembled were.

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

   the endless routs of wretched thralls.

   The ringleader and head of all this rout.

   Nor do I name of men the common rout.

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.

   thy army . . . Dispersed in rout, betook them all to fly.

   To these giad conquest, murderous rout to those.

4. 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. (Law)
5. A fashionable assembly, or large evening party.

imp. & p. p. Routed; p. pr. & vb. n. Routing

1. To break the ranks of, as troops, and put them to flight in disorder; to put to rout.

   That party . . . that charged the Scots, so totally routed and defeated their whole army, that they fied.

1. To assemble in a crowd, whether orderly or disorderly; to collect in company. [obs.]

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