Definitions for the word "Roast" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. v. t.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. v. t.
To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.; as, to roast a potato in ashes.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. v. t.
To dry and parch by exposure to heat; as, to roast coffee; to roast chestnuts, or peanuts.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. v. t.
Hence, to heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. v. t.
To dissipate by heat the volatile parts of, as ores.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. v. t.
To banter severely.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. v. i.
To cook meat, fish, etc., by heat, as before the fire or in an oven.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. v. i.
To undergo the process of being roasted.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. n.
That which is roasted; a piece of meat which has been roasted, or is suitable for being roasted.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. a.
Roasted; as, roast beef.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
11. v.
1 a cook (food, esp. Meat) or (of food) be cooked in an oven or by open heat (roast chestnuts). B heat (coffee beans) before grinding. 2 refl. Expose (oneself etc.) To fire or heat. 3 criticize severely, denounce. attrib. Adj. Roasted (roast beef). n. 1 a roast meat. B dish of this. C piece of meat for roasting. 2 process of roasting. [french rost(ir) from germanic]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
12. slang
to expose a person to a running fire of jokes for the
amusement and with the assistance of a whole company. A performance not
indulged in by gentlemen. QUIZZING is done by a single person only.
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864
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