Word Meanings - REVEL-ROUT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Tumultuous festivity; revelry. Rowe. 2. A rabble; a riotous assembly; a mob.

Related words: (words related to REVEL-ROUT)

• RIOTOUS
  1. Involving, or engaging in, riot; wanton; unrestrained; luxurious. The younger son . . . took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. Luke xv. 13. 2. Partaking of the nature of an unlawful assembly
• ASSEMBLY
  A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble. Note: In some of the United States, the legislature, or the popular branch of it, is called the Assembly, or the General Assembly. In the Presbyterian Church, the General
• RABBLE
  An iron bar, with the end bent, used in stirring or skimming molten iron in the process of puddling.
• REVELRY
  The act of engaging in a revel; noisy festivity; reveling. And pomp and feast and revelry. Milton.
• RABBLER
  A scraping tool for smoothing metal.
• TUMULTUOUS
  1. Full of tumult; characterized by tumult; disorderly; turbulent. The flight became wild and tumultuous. Macaulay. 2. Conducted with disorder; noisy; confused; boisterous; disorderly; as, a tumultuous assembly or meeting. 3. Agitated, as with
• FESTIVITY
  1. The condition of being festive; social joy or exhilaration of spirits at an entertaintment; joyfulness; gayety. The unrestrained festivity of the rustic youth. Bp. Hurd. 2. A festival; a festive celebration. Sir T. Browne.
• ASSEMBLYMAN
  A member of an assembly, especially of the lower branch of a state legislature.
• RABBLEMENT
  A tumultuous crowd of low people; a rabble. "Rude rablement." Spenser. And still, as he refused it, the rabblement hooted. Shak.
• RABBLE-ROUT
  A tumultuous crowd; a rabble; a noisy throng.
• BRABBLE
  To clamor; to contest noisily.
• GRABBLE
  Etym: 1. To grope; to feel with the hands. He puts his hands into his pockets, and keeps a grabbling and fumbling. Selden. 2. To lie prostrate on the belly; to sprawl on the ground; to grovel. Ainsworth.
• DRABBLER
  A piece of canvas fastened by lacing to the bonnet of a sail, to give it a greater depth, or more drop.
• SCRABBLE
  1. To scrape, paw, or scratch with the hands; to proceed by clawing with the hands and feet; to scramble; as, to scrabble up a cliff or a tree. Now after a while Little-faith came to himself, and getting up made shift to scrabble on his
• DRABBLE
  To draggle; to wet and befoul by draggling; as, to drabble a gown or cloak. Halliwell.
• BRABBLEMENT
  A brabble. Holland.
• BEDRABBLE
  To befoul with rain and mud; to drabble.
• WESTMINSTER ASSEMBLY
  See ASSEMBLY
• DRABBLE-TAIL
  A draggle-tail; a slattern. Halliwell.
• INFESTIVITY
  Want of festivity, cheerfulness, or mirth; dullness; cheerlessness.
• BRABBLER
  A clamorous, quarrelsome, noisy fellow; a wrangler. Shak.