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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

... before you'll come alive? You've been living on your rep as a bad man to monkey with, and pushing out your wishbone over it for quite a spell, now—why don't yuh get busy and collect another bunch uh admiration from these fellows? I ain't no lightning-shot man! Papa Death don't roost on the end uh my six-gun—or I never suspicioned before that he did; but from the save-me-quick look on yuh, I believe yuh'd faint plumb away if I let yuh take a look at the end uh my gun, with the butt-end ...

— The Long Shadow • B. M. Bower

... gathered when she made me take that oath. I suppose she's head girl and that's why she rules the roost? Is she decent or does she keep you petrified? I don't know whether I'm expected to say 'Bow-wow,' or to listen in respectful humility when she deigns to ...

— The Jolliest School of All • Angela Brazil

... that's just like the rest of them," replied the boy. "I warrant me, you think, what should such an ill-favoured, scrambling urchin do at court? But let Richard Sludge alone; I have not been cock of the roost here for nothing. I will make sharp wit ...

— Kenilworth • Sir Walter Scott

... and fro as though alive, yet not a breath of air was stirring. His wonder at the beautiful spectacle was so great, that he ceased moving the paddle and drifted with the current toward the snowy looking tree. When opposite, he saw it was a roost for some sort of water fowl. He shouted and a cloud of white heron rose in the ...

— The Story of Paul Boyton - Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World • Paul Boyton

... bless or ban a journey, and the flight Of crook-clawed birds, did I make clear to man— And how they soar upon the right, for weal, How, on the left, for evil; how they dwell, Each in its kind, and what their loves and hates, And which can flock and roost in harmony. From me, men learned what deep significance Lay in the smoothness of the entrails set For sacrifice, and which, of various hues, Showed them a gift accepted of the gods; They learned what streaked ...

— Suppliant Maidens and Other Plays • AEschylus

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