Word Meanings - ROAST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

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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 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.

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• RADIANT ENGINE
  A semiradial engine. See Radial engine, above.
• VOLATILENESS; VOLATILITY
  Quality or state of being volatile; disposition to evaporate; changeableness; fickleness. Syn. -- See Levity.
• BEFORETIME
  Formerly; aforetime. dwelt in their tents, as beforetime. 2 Kings xiii. 5.
• DISSIPATED
  1. Squandered; scattered. "Dissipated wealth." Johnson. 2. Wasteful of health, money, etc., in the pursuit of pleasure; dissolute; intemperate. A life irregular and dissipated. Johnson.
• BANTER
  1. To address playful good-natured ridicule to, -- the person addressed, or something pertaining to him, being the subject of the jesting; to rally; as, he bantered me about my credulity. Hag-ridden by my own fancy all night, and then bantered
• BANTERER
  One who banters or rallies.
• BEFOREHAND
  1. In a state of anticipation ore preoccupation; in advance; -- often followed by with. Agricola . . . resolves to be beforehand with the danger. Milton. The last cited author has been beforehand with me. Addison. 2. By way of preparation,
• DISSIPATE
  1. To scatter completely; to disperse and cause to disappear; -- used esp. of the dispersion of things that can never again be collected or restored. Dissipated those foggy mists of error. Selden. I soon dissipated his fears. Cook. The extreme
• 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.
• RADIANTLY
  In a radiant manner; with glittering splendor.
• GRIDIRON
  An openwork frame on which vessels are placed for examination, cleaning, and repairs. 3. (more info) 1. A grated iron utensil for broiling flesh and fish over coals.
• VOLATILE
  1. Passing through the air on wings, or by the buoyant force of the atmosphere; flying; having the power to fly. 2. Capable of wasting away, or of easily passing into the aëriform state; subject to evaporation. Note: Substances which affect the
• 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.
• BEFORE
  1. In front of; preceding in space; ahead of; as, to stand before the fire; before the house. His angel, who shall go Before them in a cloud and pillar of fire. Milton. 2. Preceding in time; earlier than; previously to; anterior to the time when;
• RADIANT
  Giving off rays; -- said of a bearing; as, the sun radiant; a crown radiant. (more info) rays or beams, fr. radius ray: cf. F. radiant. See Radius, Ray a 1. Emitting or proceeding as from a center; rays; radiating; radiate. 2. Especially,
• EXPOSURE
  The exposing of a sensitized plate to the action of light. (more info) 1. The act of exposing or laying open, setting forth, laying bare of protection, depriving of care or concealment, or setting out to reprobation or contempt. The exposure of
• THEREBEFORE; THEREBIFORN
  Before that time; beforehand. Many a winter therebiforn. Chaucer.
• HYDROSTAT
  A contrivance or apparatus to prevent the explosion of steam boilers.
• AEROSTAT
  1. A balloon. 2. A balloonist; an aëronaut.
• ELECTROSTATIC
  Pertaining to electrostatics.
• ELECTROSTATICS
  That branch of science which treats of statical electricity or electric force in a state of rest.
• AEROSTATION
  1. Aërial navigation; the art of raising and guiding balloons in the air. 2. The science of weighing air; aërostatics.
• INEXPOSURE
  A state of not being exposed.
• PROSTATITIS
  Inflammation of the prostate.
• PROSTATIC
  Of or pertaining to the prostate gland. Prostatic catheter. See under Catheter.
• SIDEROSTAT
  An apparatus consisting essentially of a mirror moved by clockwork so as to throw the rays of the sun or a star in a fixed direction; -- a more general term for heliostat.
• GYROSTATIC
  Of or pertaining to the gyrostat or to gyrostatics.
• IRRADIANT
  Irradiating or illuminating; as, the irradiant moon. Boyse.
• 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.