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Alarm clock, ideally
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rouser
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Word definitions for rouser in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, agent noun from rouse (v.).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who rouses others from sleep [syn: waker , arouser ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rouser \Rous"er\, n. One who, or that which, rouses. Something very exciting or great. [Colloq.] (Brewing) A stirrer in a copper for boiling wort.
Usage examples of rouser.
Then in that time of general cherishment, Sweet breathing balm and flutes by cool wood-side, He the harsh rouser of ire being absent, caged, Then did good Gaea's children gratefully Lift hymns to Gods they judged, but praised for peace, Delightful Peace, that answers Reason's call Harmoniously and images her Law.
It is the social mass-action rule, the mob-hysteria law, known and used by military, political, and religious leaders, by advertising men and prophets and propagandists, by rabble rousers and actors and gang leaders, for generations before it was formulated in mathematical symbols.
I give you my word it was a deal worse than any of your scoldings, a regular rouser.
After I delivered my little rouser of a speech in favor of the amended proposal, and hinted that any IA who presumed to question the ethnic dynamism of those sourdoughs would end up lynched with a walrus-hide rope, most of the Assembly caved in and passed the resolution by a big majority.