roaring 
roaring (ror'ing). p. a. [Ppr. of roar, p.] 1. 
Making or characterized by a noise or disturb- 
ance ; disorderly ; riotous. 
A mad, roaring time, full of extravagance. Burnet. 
That every naig was ca'd a shoe on 
The smith and thee gat roaring fou on. 
Burns, Tarn o' Shanter. 
2. Going briskly; highly successful. [Colloq.J 
People who can afford to smother themselves in roses 
like this must be driving a roaring trade. 
W. E. Narris, Miss Shafto, xxv. 
Roaring boyst, roaring ladst, swaggerers ; ruffians : 
slang names applied, about the beginning of the seven- 
5201 
II. intrans. 1. To perform the act of cook- 
ing by the direct action of dry heat. 
He coude rate, and sethe, and broille, and frye. 
Chaucer, Prol. to C. T., 1. 383. 
2. To become roasted or lit for eating by expo- 
sure to fire; hence, to be overheated or parched, 
In some places we did find 
Pye baking in the oven, 
Meat at the fire roasting. 
The Winning of Coles (Child's Ballads, VII. 127). 
Tales ! for never yet on earth 
the Fire, in the Ear. 
a " d Phasing Food. 
rob 
. And indeed this is a very sweet 
Beverley, Virginia (1705), iii. U IB. 
fOasting-fumace (ros'ting-fer"nas), . Any 
furnace in which the operation of roasting is 
performed. See roast, r. t., 4. 
roasting-iront (ros'ting-i"ern), n. [< ME. 
rostynge-yrne. ] Same as roast-iron. 
roasting-jack (ros'ting-jak), n. [< roasting + 
jade*-.'] An apparatus for turning the spit on 
which meat is roasted before an open fire. See 
smoke-jack. 
Basting-kiln (ros'ting-kil), . A kiln U 8 ed in 
genera), acted the part of the Mohocks of a century later. 
Roaring girls are also alluded to by the old dramatists, 
though much less frequently. 
Ther were 4 raring boyes, they say, 
That drunk a hogshead dry in one poor day. 
Times' Whistle (E. E. T. S.), p. 62. 
Shamelesse double sex'd hermaphrodites, Virago roaring 
girles. Taylor, Works (1630). (ffares.) 
i roast, 
t\] Boasted: as, roast beef ; roast meat. 
Plutus has put me out of commons. Yet my nose 
Smells the delicious odour of roa-beef. 
Bandolph, Hey for Honesty, iv. 1. 
-R* Le^dge* The' Mm ?Bef of Old England. " ce and roasting-fiirnace. 
Roast-beef plant, an iris of western Europe, Iris fceti- r aS H r 9?4, (****). [Early mod. E. 
' jmit an odor which, *>; < ME. rostyren, rostyryn ;< roast + i 
, , n. An oven in 
any substance is roasted; specifically, 
in metal., an oven for roasting or calcining ores, 
the purpose being to expel sulphur, arsenic, 
etc., by the action of heat, which volatilizes 
these substances. Also called ore-calcining fur- 
A very untnrift, master J homey; one of the Country atssima, whose leaves when bruised emit an odor which, ' ""> \ a ^- ivsiyien, rosiyryii ; \ 
roaring Lads; we have such, as well as the city, and as ar- though very unpleasant, is often likened to that of roast A gridiron. Catfl. Any., p. 312. 
rost- 
iron.] 
beef. To cry roast meat, to betray or make known 
one's good fortune. 
Item, j. roste iren .with vij. staves and j. foldyng stele of 
silver, weiyng Ixxiij. unces. Paston Letters, I. 468. 
rant rakehells as they are, though not so nimble at their 
prizes of wit. Ford and Detter, Witch of Edmonton, i. 2. 
Roaring buckle. See buckie, i. Roaring Meg. 
A cannon. (Nares.) 
Beates downe a fortresse like a roaring Meg. 
Whiting, Albino and Bellama (1638). (Nares.) - ___ 
(6) A kind of humming-top. Hallimtt. The roaring roast (rost), n. [Early mod. E. also rost; < ME. wall at the back for the purpose of creating a 
forties. See forty. The roaring game, curling, rost, roost = MD. roost (OF. rost), a roast; draft : used at Mansf eld in Prussia. Iron ores are 
[Scotch.] f TOm the verb.] That which is roasted, specifi- a l 80 some roes calcined between closed walls in stall-like 
roaring + -fy2.] Pa ]l vaT1 ;p Pfio f hpof that nart nf a s nKrhtm-erl J hamber8 ?Pen in front. If closed in front, these cham- 
a -J cauy a piece or oeet , tnat pait ol a slaughtered bers would more properly be called kilns 
(at) The foolish beast, not able to fare well but he must cry ~~ nc ,t. _4._n , =,,4./ J.M\ i- 
roast meat, . . . waxing fat and kicking in the fulness of roast-stall (rost stal), . A peculiar form of 
bread, ... would needs proclaim his good fortune to the roasting-furnace, built in compartments or 
world below. Lamb, Christ's Hospital, stalls open in front, with flues running up the 
roaringly (ror'ing-li), adv. [< 
In a roaring manner ; noisily. 
Ferdinand snored roaringly from his coiled position 
among the traps. T. Wiuthrop, Canoe and Saddle, xii. 
roaryt, a,. See rory. 
roast (rost), v. [Early mod. E. also rost; < ME. 
rosten, roosten, partly (a) < AS. "rostian, geros- after that^ome'smaii'TDesert. 
, f u .... jiore properly be called kilns. 
animal which is selected for roasting, as a sir- roatt, v. See rote' 2 '. 
loin of beef or a shoulder of mutton. ro bl ( rorj ), . ; pre t, and pp. robbed, ppr. rob- 
bing. [< ME. robben, < OF. robber, rober = Sp. 
A fat swan lovede he best of any roost. 
Chaucer, Prol. to c. T., 1. 206. 
tian, also geroscian (only in glosses), roast, = 
MD. D. roosten = MLG. rosten, LG. rosten = 
OHG. rosten, MHG. rcesten, later roschten, G. 
rosten, roast ; orig. cook on a grate or gridiron, j^ to 8tand {Q - to 
< AS. 'rost (not found) = MLG. roste, LG. domineering manner of a cock.] 
roste = OHG. rost, rosta, gridiron, MHG. roste, 
a grate, also heap of coals, glow, fire, G. rost, a 
grate, gridiron; and partly (b) < OF. rostir, F. 
rotir, dial, rotltir = Pr. raustir = Cat. OSp. rostir 
= It. arrostire, roast, < OHG. rostan, roast (as 
above). Perhaps orig. Celtic: cf. Ir. roistin, a 
gridiron, rosdaim, I roast, rost, roast meat, Gael. 
rost, roist, W. rhostio, Bret, rosta, roast; but 
these words may be from E. and F.] I. trans. 
1. To cook, dress, or prepare (meats) for eat- 
ing, originally on a grate or gridiron over or 
robar = Pg. roubar = It. rubare, < ML. raubare, 
I tell you that we have a Course of Roast a coming, and rob, steal, plunder, < OHG. roubon, MHG. rou- 
- ^ TJS& ^Conoquies of Erasmus, 1. 174. %>'>S > = L ^ = ^ !*' ?' 
e lead ; domineer. [The phrase is by some 
roost, in allusion to the 
In cholerick bodies, flre doth govern moste ; 
In sanguine, aire doth chiefly rule the rost. 
Times' Whistle (E. E. T. S.), p. 117. 
Suffolk, the new-made duke that rules the roast. 
Shak., 2 Hen. VI., i. 1. 109. 
In the Kitrhin he will domineere, and rule the roste, in 
spight of his Master, and Curses is the very Dialect of his 
Calling. Bp. Earle, Micro-cosmographie, A Cooke. 
To smell of the roastt, to be prisoners. Nares. 
My souldiers were slayne fast before mine owne eyes, 
Or forc'd to flie, yeelde, and smell of the rost. 
Mir. for Mags. 
reave = Goth, bi-raubon, rob, bereave: see 
through OF. and ML. from the OHG. cognate 
of the E. reave. Cf. robe.] I. trans. If. To 
steal ; take away unlawfully. 
That our fos, with no faulshed in the fyght tyme, 
Sese not our Cite, our seluyn to pyne, 
He rob not our ryches, ne our ryf godys. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 6269. 
An empty casket, where the jewel of life 
By some damn'd hand was robb'd and ta'en away. 
Shak., K. John, v. 1. 41. 
2. To plunder or strip by force or violence ; 
strip or deprive of something by stealing ; de- 
prive unlawfully ; commit robbery upon. See 
robbery. 
To socour the kynge de Cent Chyualers, that hadde herde 
roast-bitter (rost'bit'te), . A peculiar bitter ItSSESSSK^SSSZttSSS 1 
nnnomlp Pnnt.flinPn in Hio mnct- r\f "KoL-ii/1 Vvnnn.l TU-~~.J;~. /u -n m a \*u 
Roasting is generally performed by revolVlng the "article P rin ciple contained in the crust of baked bread, 
on a spit or a string before a flre, with a reflector or Dutch similar to that produced by the roasting of 
oven to concentrate the heat : in primitive cookery hot other organic compounds. 
ashes serve a similar purpose. Meat cooked over or be- rnastpr (ros'tev) n T T) rnnoifr T P r R*i* 
neath a flre, on a gridironTis now said to be broiled and roa lier .Af os ler >! " L U.roostet = Ltr. rostei 
meat cooked in a stove- or range-oven, where it does not = <* roster, a gridiron, grate ; as roast + -erl.] 3. To deprive. 
receive the direct action of the flre, is properly said to be 1 One who or that which roasts : as, a meat- This concern for futurities robs us of all the ease and 
. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 23S. 
Bob not the poor, because he is poor . Prov. xxii. 22. 
Like a thief, to come to rob my grounds. 
Shak., 2 Hen. VI., iv. 10. 36. 
baked (though generally said to be roasted). 
Maistir, the custome wele we knawe, 
That with oure elthers euer has bene, 
How ilke man with his meyne awe 
To roste a lambe, and ete it clene. 
York Plays, p. 233. 
Davie [an idiot] ... lay with his nose almost in the flre 
. . . turning the eggs as they lay in the hot embers, as if to 
confute the proverb that "there goes reason to roasting 
of eggs." Scott, Waverley, Ixiv. 
2. To heat to excess ; heat violently. 
Roasted in wrath and flre, . . . 
With eyes like carbuncles, the hellish Pyrrhus 
Old grandsire Priam seeks. Shak. , Hamlet, ii. 2. 483. 
He shakes with cold you stir the flre and strive 
To make a blaze that's roasting him alive. 
Camper, Conversation, 1. 334. 
3. To dry and parch by exposure to heat: as, 
to roast coffee. 
The fruit of it not scabby, rested drie. 
roaster. 2. Specifically, the finishing-furnace tne advantages which might arise from a proper and dis- 
in the Leblanc process of making ball-soda. """" "" "' """ *"""" ' 
It is a large reverberatory of brickwork, with a detach- 
able casing of iron plates held in place by upright iron 
binders and tightening-rods. 
3. A pig or other animal or article fit for roast- 
ing. 
Here Loolowcan presented me the three birds plucked. 
. . . The two roasters we planted carefully on spits before 
a sultry spot of the flre. 
T. Winthrop, Canoe and Saddle, viii. 
When we keep a roaster of the sucking pigs, we choose 
and praise at table most, the favourite of its mother. 
B. D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone, 1. 
, . 
Palladia, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 4. fifth stage of the English 
creet use of the present moment. 
Bp. Atterbury, Sermons, II. xxii. 
I care not, Fortune, what you me deny : 
You cannot rob me of free Nature's grace. 
Thomson, Castle of Indolence, ii. 3. 
4. To carry away; ravish. [Bare.] 
The eyes of all, allur'd with close delight, 
And hearts quite robbed with so glorious sight. 
Spenser, F. Q., IV. iv. 16. 
5. To hinder; prevent. [Rare.] 
What is thy sentence then but speechless death, 
Which robs my tongue from breathing native breath? 
Shak., Rich. II., i. 3. 173. 
ine) 
profit rather than 
away by itself instead of mixing with the 'airand C the ' th6 P ermanent safet y an . d development of 
gases of combustion in the chimney. the property. 7. In coal-mining, to cut away 
roaster-slag (ros'ter-slag), n. Slag from the . r reduc e sjze, as the pillars of coal left for 
pay 
laim 
lent 
Blind roaster, a furnace for completing the roasting of ,, T 
the sodium sulphate in the ball-soda process, in which " ln 'metal-mining, to remove ore from (ami 
the sulphate is confined in a chamber or large muffle, and with a view to immediate profit rather tl 
the hydrochloric acid set free in the process is conducted tr tTio T^wnenov.4- ...,r,,i,~ .~A A~ i 
_ish copper-smelting pro- the support of the mine.-Robbing Peter to pa 
4. In metal., to heat with access of air. The cess, which consists in the calcination of the Jaul taking what is due one person to satisfy the clai 
objects of roasting substances are various: (a) to expel so-called white metal, and the product of which o a" Ither' 8acnfll;lng one interest for the advanceme, 
from them something which can be separated by heat is blister connpr and rnastpr afoo 
r - s A a ?- _ By robbingPeter he paid Paul, ... and hoped to catch 
tl. A larks if ever the heavens should fall. 
Urquhart, tr. of Rabelais, i. 11. 
= Syn. 2 and 3. To despoil, fleece. See pillage, n. 
II. intrans. To commit robbery. 
alone, as when calamin (carbonate of zinc) is roasted r- 
in order to expel the carbonic acid; (b) to expel some r astmg-cylmaer (ros ting-sil'm-. /; ... __ 
Ingredient capable of ^beiug got rid of by the agency of furnace for roasting ores, for amalgamation. 
_ , ,e protoxid of iron) is roasting takes place. The name is chiefly 
roasted in order to convert it into a silicate of the peroxid used with reference to the particular furnace 
.see eaWnatton. invented by W. Bruckner. 
expose (a person) to scathing ridicule roasting-ear (ros'ting-er), . An ear of maize 
or jesting, as by a company of persons, or for O r Indian 
the amusement of a company. [Slang.] 
On bishop Atterbury's roasting lord Coningsby about 
the topick of being priest-ridden. 
Bp. Attrrliurii, Dpist. Correspondence, II. 417. (Latham.) 
32 / 
I am accursed to rob in that thief's company. 
Shak., 1 Hen. IV., ii. 2. 10. 
Of Highway-Elephants at Ceylan, 
That rob in Clans, like Men o' th' Highland. 
or Indian corn in tfie green and milky state, Prior, To Fleetwood Shephard. 
and fit for roasting. [Colloq., U. S.] ' rob 2 (rob), w. [< P. rob, < Sp. rob, arropc - Pg. 
' 
. 
They [the Indians] delight much to feed on Boastinti- *** f !>'rol>e = It. rob, robbo, < Ar. robb, Pers. 
rs ; that is ' the Indian corn ' e<*te* g"=en "d milky, rubb, inspissated juice, syrup, fruit-jelly.] The 
efore it is grown to its full bigness, and roasted before inspissated juice o 
. 
inspissated juice of ripe fruit, mixed with honey 
