Hamlet vocabulary

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rouse

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help with synonyms  synonyms: bumper, stiffener ???
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Definition:
1. A bumper in honor of a toast or health. [Obs.]
2. A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.

Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Fill the cup, and fill the can, Have a rouse before the morn.

Tennyson.
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Hamlet: The King doth wake to-night and takes his rouse, Keeps wassail, and the swaggering up-spring reels; And, as he drains his draughts of Rhenish down, The kettle-drum and trumpet thus bray out The triumph of his pledge.

William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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