ROOSTING

Verb

roosting

present participle of roost

Noun

roosting (plural roostings)

The place or period where a creature roosts.

Anagrams

• rootings, stooring

Source: Wiktionary


ROOST

Roost, n.

Definition: Roast. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Roost, v. t.

Definition: See Roust, v. t.

Roost, n. Etym: [AS. hrost; akin to OD. roest roost, roesten to roost, and probably to E. roof. Cf. Roof.]

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, v. 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 roost and nestle there. Herbert.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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