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Webster 1913 Edition
Roost
Roost
,Noun.
Roast.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
Roost
,Noun.
1.
The pole or other support on which fowls rest at night; a perch.
He clapped his wings upon his
roost
. Dryden.
2.
A collection of fowls roosting together.
At roost
, on a perch or roost; hence, retired to rest.
Roost
,Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Roosted
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Roosting
.] 1.
To sit, rest, or sleep, as fowls on a pole, limb of a tree, etc.; to perch.
Wordsworth.
2.
Fig.; To lodge; to rest; to sleep.
O, let me where thy roof my soul hath hid,
O, let me
O, let me
roost
and nestle there. Herbert.
Webster 1828 Edition
Roost
ROOST
, n.The pole or other support on which fowls rest at night.
He clapp'd his wings upon his roost.
At roost, in a state for rest and sleep.
ROOST
, v.i.1.
To sit, rest or sleep, as fowls on a pole, tree or other thing at night.2.
To lodge, in burlesque.