Word Meanings - OVERROAST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To roast too much. Shak.

Related words: (words related to OVERROAST)

• ROAST
  To dissipate by heat the volatile parts of, as ores. 6. To banter severely. Atterbury. (more info) G. rösten, fr. OHG. rost, rosta, gridiron, G. rost; cf. AS. hyrstan 1. To cook by exposure to radiant heat before a fire; as, to roast meat on
• ROASTER
  1. One who roasts meat. 2. A contrivance for roasting. 3. A pig, or other article of food fit for roasting.
• ROASTING
  a. & n., from Roast, v. Roasting ear, an ear of Indian corn at that stage of development when it is fit to be eaten roasted. -- Roasting jack, a machine for turning a spit on which meat is roasted.
• ZOROASTRIANISM
  The religious system of Zoroaster, the legislator and prophet of the ancient Persians, which was the national faith of Persia; mazdeism. The system presupposes a good spirit and an opposing evil spirit . Cf. Fire worship, under Fire, and Parsee.
• OVERROAST
  To roast too much. Shak.
• RIBROAST
  To beat soundly.
• ZOROASTRISM
  See TYLOR
• ZOROASTRIAN
  Of or pertaining to Zoroaster, or his religious system.