One who rears, raises up, or arouses.

A person who rears someone or something (in various senses); (now) esp. an animal breeder. Formerly also with †up.

One who rouses another from sleep; figurative one who excites or stirs up (some feeling, etc.).

A person who raises something or someone, in various senses; spec. a person who breeds animals or cultivates plants.

He who or that which awakens.

= awakener, n.

A person who or thing which rouses, awakens, or stirs up someone or something; an arouser; an inciter. Cf. rabble-rouser, n.

One who excites; spec. one whose business it is to rouse others from sleep.

One who arouses.

(a) (with qualifying adjective) in sense 2; (b) = sense 4 (cf. wake, v. 8a). colloquial.