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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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"Roost" Quotes from Famous Books

... brass band half drunk before the six o'clock train, on which your Mr. Bennett comes. He has spent five dollars paying the negroes to polish up their instruments and clean up the uniforms and it cost him twenty-five to bail the cornettist out of jail for roost robbing, and it takes a whole gallon of whisky to get any spirit into the drummer. He says tell you that as this is your shindig you ought at least to pay the piper. Hurry up, he's waiting for me, and here's the kiss he told me to put on ...

— The Melting of Molly • Maria Thompson Daviess

... upon his ear, and he shouted. Two sportsmen were returning from the Upper Lakes, and right welcome was the answer they returned to his call. He was glad enough to be released from his rock, upon which, as he said, 'he had made up his mind that he should be compelled to roost, like a turkey on the ridge of a barn, for ...

— Wild Northern Scenes - Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod • S. H. Hammond

... no doubt you know, To which a fox is used: A rooster that is bound to crow, A crow that's bound to roost, And whichsoever he espies He tells ...

— Fables for the Frivolous • Guy Whitmore Carryl

... the hour was the desire to put down by a strong hand the depredations of these lawless robber hordes. Not a house in the place but had suffered from them, not a farmer but had complaints to make of hen roost robbed or beasts driven off in the night. Others had darker tales to tell; and Will Ives clenched his fists and vowed that he would be glad indeed to see the day when he and Simon Dowsett might meet face to face in equal combat. But it would be impossible to attack the robbers ...

— In the Wars of the Roses - A Story for the Young • Evelyn Everett-Green

... numerous, were Crows, Kites, Hawkes, Cockadores* (* Cockatoos.) of 2 Sorts, the one white, and the other brown, very beautiful Loryquets of 2 or 3 Sorts, Pidgeons, Doves, and a few other sorts of small Birds. The Sea or Water fowl are Herns, Whisling Ducks, which perch and, I believe, roost on Trees; Curlews, etc., and not many of these neither. Some of our Gentlemen who were in the Country heard and saw Wild Geese ...

— Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World • James Cook

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