The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. . osting;hence, in a state of rest or sleep. A fox spied out a cock at roost upon a tree. SirR. (rost), V. [= MD. roesten, roost; from thenoun.] I. intrans. 1. To occupy a roost; perch,as a bird. 0 let me, when Thy roof my soul hath hid,O let me roost and nestle there. O. Herbert, The [IJ sought a Poet, roosted near the skies. Burns, Address spoken by Miss peacock in the broad ash-treeAloft is roosted for the night. Word
The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. . osting;hence, in a state of rest or sleep. A fox spied out a cock at roost upon a tree. SirR. (rost), V. [= MD. roesten, roost; from thenoun.] I. intrans. 1. To occupy a roost; perch,as a bird. 0 let me, when Thy roof my soul hath hid,O let me roost and nestle there. O. Herbert, The [IJ sought a Poet, roosted near the skies. Burns, Address spoken by Miss peacock in the broad ash-treeAloft is roosted for the night. Wordsicorth, White Doe of Eyistone, To stick or stay upon a resting-place; clingor adhere to a rest, as a limpet on a rock. 5224 roots, however— chiefly the tap-roots of biennials —servethe special purpose of storing nutriment for a second sea-son, becoming thus much enlarged, as in the beet and tur-nip. Roots of tliis class must be distinguished from therhizome, bulb, etc., which, though subterranean, are modi-ncations of the stem. Numerous plants put forth aerialroots, eventually reaching tlie soil (banian, mangrove). root. The larger number of limpets roost upon rocks. Nature, iXXI. 200. II. trans. To set or perch, as a bird on aroost: used retlexively. I wonder,How that profane nest of pernicious birdsDare roost themselves there in the midst of many good and well-disposed personsO impudence! Jiamlolph, Muses Looking-glass, i. (riist), ». and v. See (rostkok), «. A cock; a rooster.[Prov. Eug.] Gallus, that greatest roost-cock in the Mous-Trap (1606). (Halliwell, under porpentine.)rooster (roster), II. 1. The male of the domes-tie hen; a cock, as distinguished from the fe-male or hen. [] A huge turkey gobbling in the road, a rooster crowingon the fence, and ducks quacking in the ditches. S. Judd, Margaret, ii. 1. a percher. See /«- 2. Any bird that Almost all birds are roosters. R. G. White. Words and th
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