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noun

Roost n. Roast. (Obs.)

Roost n.

The pole or other support on which fowls rest at night; a perch. "He clapped his wings upon his roost."

A collection of fowls roosting together.

At roost, on a perch or roost; hence, retired to rest.

Roust n. (Written also rost, and roost) A strong tide or current, especially in a narrow channel.

verb

Roost v. t. See Roust, v. t.

Roost v. i. (past & past part. roosted; pres. part. roosting)

To sit, rest, or sleep, as fowls on a pole, limb of a tree, etc.; to perch.

Fig.; To lodge; to rest; to sleep. "O, let me where thy roof my soul hath hid, O, let me roost and nestle there."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Roost" Quotes from Famous Books

... on the pampas are few in species and in numbers. This may be accounted for by the absence of trees and other elevations on which birds prefer to roost and nest; and by the scarcity of food. Insects are few in dry situations; and the large perennial grasses, which occupy most of the ground, yield a miserable yearly harvest of a few minute seeds; so that this district is a poor one both for soft and hard ...

— The Naturalist in La Plata • W. H. Hudson

... let us roost in the branches like the birds." So they took the door up with them and laid down to sleep on it as ...

— Europa's Fairy Book • Joseph Jacobs

... old house for the last time, sniffing the agreeable odor of aged hypo still permeating the dark room, re-covering the empty stains of skins and traces of maps on the walls, and re-filling in my mind the vacant shelves. The vampires had returned to their chosen roost, the martins still swept through the corridors, and as I went down the hill, a moriche oriole sent a silver shaft of song after me from the sentinel palm, just as he had greeted ...

— Edge of the Jungle • William Beebe

... o' trees do hide A body by the hedge's zide, An' twitt'ren birds, wi' playsome flight, Do vlee to roost at comen night, Then I do saunter out o' zight In orcha'd, where the pleaece woonce rung Wi' laughs a-laugh'd an' zongs a-zung By vaices ...

— Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect • William Barnes

... quarters. There was just enough cold crispiness in the air to-night to make the two fat cows move faster into the stable, with smoking breath, to bring out a crow of defiance from the chickens huddling together on the roost; it spread, too, a white rime over the windows, shining red in the sinking sun. When the sun was down, the nipping northeaster grew sharper, swept about the little valley, rattled the bare-limbed trees, blew boards off the corn-crib that Doctor ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. XII. July, 1863, No. LXIX. - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics • Various

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