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ROAST, v.t. [If the verb is from the noun, the sense is to dress or cook on a gridiron or grate, and rist, rost, coincide in elements with L. rastellum, a rake. If the verb is the root, the sense probably is to contract or crisp, or to throw or agitate, hence to make rough.]

1. To cook, dress or prepare meat for the table by exposing it to heat, as on a spit. In a bake-pan, in an oven or the like. We now say, to roast meat on a spit, in a pan, or in a tin oven, &c.; to bake meat in an oven; to broil meat on a gridiron.

2. To prepare for food by exposure to heat; as, to roast apples or potatoes; to roast eggs.

3. To heat to excess; to heat violently.

Roasted in wrath and fire.

4. To dry and parch by exposure to heat; as, to roast coffee.

5. In metallurgy, to dissipate the volatile parts of ore by heat.

6. In common discourse, to jeer; to banter severely.

ROAST, n. That which is roasted.

ROAST, a. [for roasted.] Roasted; as roast beef.

ROAST, n. In the phrase, to rule the roast, this word is a corrupt pronunciation.



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ROAST, v.t. [If the verb is from the noun, the sense is to dress or cook on a gridiron or grate, and rist, rost, coincide in elements with L. rastellum, a rake. If the verb is the root, the sense probably is to contract or crisp, or to throw or agitate, hence to make rough.]

1. To cook, dress or prepare meat for the table by exposing it to heat, as on a spit. In a bake-pan, in an oven or the like. We now say, to roast meat on a spit, in a pan, or in a tin oven, &c.; to bake meat in an oven; to broil meat on a gridiron.

2. To prepare for food by exposure to heat; as, to roast apples or potatoes; to roast eggs.

3. To heat to excess; to heat violently.

Roasted in wrath and fire.

4. To dry and parch by exposure to heat; as, to roast coffee.

5. In metallurgy, to dissipate the volatile parts of ore by heat.

6. In common discourse, to jeer; to banter severely.

ROAST, n. That which is roasted.

ROAST, a. [for roasted.] Roasted; as roast beef.

ROAST, n. In the phrase, to rule the roast, this word is a corrupt pronunciation.


ROAST, a. [for roasted.]

Roasted; as, roast beef.


ROAST, n.1

That which is roasted.


ROAST, n.2

In the phrase, to rule the roast, this word is a contempt pronunciation of the G. rath, counsel, Dan. and D. raad; Sw. råd.


ROAST, v.t. [W. rhostiaw; Ir. rostam; Arm. rosta; Fr. rôtir; It. arrostire; D. roosten; G. rösten; Sw. rosta; Dan. rister, to roast, and rist, a gridiron, G. rost. If the verb is from the noun, the sense is to dress or cook on a gridiron or grate, and rist, rost, coincide in elements with L. rastellum, a rake. If the verb is the root, the sense probably is to contract or crisp, or to throw or agitate, hence to make rough. The Welsh has also crasu, to roast, from crâs. This coincides with crisp.]

  1. To cook, dress, or prepare meat for the table by exposing it to heat, as on a spit, in a bake-pan, in an oven or the like. We now say, to roast meat on a spit, in a pan, or in a tin oven, &c.; to bake meat in an oven; to broil meat on a gridiron.
  2. To prepare for food by exposure to heat; as, to roast apples or potatoes; to roast eggs.
  3. To heat to excess; to heat violently. Roasted in wrath and fire. – Shak.
  4. To dry and parch by exposure to heat; as, to roast coffee.
  5. In metallurgy, to dissipate the volatile parts of ore by heat.
  6. In common discourse, to jeer; to banter severely. – Scott.

Roast
  1. To cook by exposure to radiant heat before a fire; as, to roast meat on a spit, or in an oven open toward the fire and having reflecting surfaces within; also, to cook in a close oven.
  2. To cook meat, fish, etc., by heat, as before the fire or in an oven.

    He could roast, and seethe, and broil, and fry. Chaucer.

  3. That which is roasted; a piece of meat which has been roasted, or is suitable for being roasted.

    A fat swan loved he best of any roost [roast]. Chaucer.

    To rule the roast, to be at the head of affairs. "The new-made duke that rules the roast." Shak.

  4. Roasted; as, roast beef.
  5. To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.; as, to roast a potato in ashes.

    In eggs boiled and roasted there is scarce difference to be discerned. BAcon.

  6. To undergo the process of being roasted.
  7. To dry and parch by exposure to heat; as, to roast coffee; to roast chestnuts, or peanuts.
  8. Hence, to heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.

    "Roasted in wrath and fire." Shak.
  9. To dissipate by heat the volatile parts of, as ores.
  10. To banter severely.

    [Colloq.] Atterbury.
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Roast

ROAST, verb transitive [If the verb is from the noun, the sense is to dress or cook on a gridiron or grate, and rist, rost, coincide in elements with Latin rastellum, a rake. If the verb is the root, the sense probably is to contract or crisp, or to throw or agitate, hence to make rough.]

1. To cook, dress or prepare meat for the table by exposing it to heat, as on a spit. In a bake-pan, in an oven or the like. We now say, to roast meat on a spit, in a pan, or in a tin oven, etc.; to bake meat in an oven; to broil meat on a gridiron.

2. To prepare for food by exposure to heat; as, to roast apples or potatoes; to roast eggs.

3. To heat to excess; to heat violently.

ROASTed in wrath and fire.

4. To dry and parch by exposure to heat; as, to roast coffee.

5. In metallurgy, to dissipate the volatile parts of ore by heat.

6. In common discourse, to jeer; to banter severely.

ROAST, noun That which is roasted.

ROAST, adjective [for roasted.] Roasted; as roast beef.

ROAST, noun In the phrase, to rule the roast this word is a corrupt pronunciation.

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