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Webster's Online English Dictionary

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roast


roast is a   Verb

Definition:

[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 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.

[3] To dry and parch by exposure to heat; as, to roast coffee; to roast chestnuts, or peanuts.

[4] Hence, to heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn. "Roasted in wrath and fire." Shak.

[5] To dissipate by heat the volatile parts of, as ores.

[6] To banter severely. [Colloq.] Atterbury.


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