roar, rore

i. & t. [A. S. rárian; cogn. with M. H. Ger. réren; Dut. reeren. From the same root as Lat. latro =to bark; Sansc. rá =to bellow.] A. Intransitive : rob rõast, *rost, *roste, v . t . & i. [O. Fr. rostir (Fr. rotir ), from German rösten to roast, from rost =a grate, a gridiron, or from Irish roist in =a gridiron, rosdaim to roast, rost roast meat; Gael. rost , roist; Wel.rhostio; Bret. rost a to roast.] A. Transitive: I. Ordinary Language: 1. Literally: (1) To cook, dre , or prepare for the table by exposure to the direct action of heat, on a spit, . (2) To dry and parch by exposure to heat; as, to roast coffee. (3) To heat to exce ; to heat violently. "Roasted in wrath and fire."- Shakesp .: Hamlet , ii. 2. 2. Fig .: To banter, quiz, or chaff severely; to tease unmercifully; to severely criticise. ( Colloq .) "Bishop Atterbury's roasting Lord Coningsby about the topic of being priest-ridden."- Bp . Atterbury : Epistolary Corresp., ii. 417. I. Ordinary Language: II. Metall .: To expose, as metallic ores, to a pro1. To cry with a loud continued voice; to bellow, tracted heat below fusion, in order to expel sulphur, arsenic, carbonic acid, water, ., and frequently to effect oxidation. as a beast; to shout. ( Jeremiah ii. 15.) 2. To cry aloud, as in pain or distre . "Thereat he rored for exceeding paine." Spenser: F. Q., I. viii. 17. 3. To make a loud, continued, and confused noise, as the waves, the wind, a crowd of people, or the like. "I am the Lord thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared." Isaiah li. 15. 4. To laugh out loudly and continuously; to shout in laughter. *5. To act riotously. [ROARING-BOYS.] II. Vet .: To make a loud noise in breathing. [ROARING, 8. , 2.] B. Trans.: To shout out loudly; to cry aloud; to call out or proclaim loudly. "Roar these accusations forth." Shakesp.: Henry VI ., Pt. I. , iii. 1. IMG:content-0691.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Ord. Lang.: A loud, continued, or confused noise; a loud cry, as of a beast; a shout, as of laughter. ( Proverbs xix. 12.) 2. Veterinary : (1) A peculiar sound emitted during respiration by some horses. When of a chronic type, it most frequently arises from a paralyzed condition of the dilator muscles of the left side of the windpipe, and is very often hereditary. ( Sidney . ) "Their horses make much muscle, and roaring is almost unknown among them."- London Globe . (2) The act of making breathing loud. [(1)] The roaring game: Curling. ( Scotch .) *roaring-boys, s . pl . An old name for a set of noisy, riotous ruffians, who infested the streets of London in the beginning of the seventeenth century. They corresponded to the Mohawks of later röar-Ing-ly, adv. [English roaring; -ly.] In a roaring manner. chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; B. Intransitive: 1. To cook or dre meat by roasting. "He coude roste, and set he, and broile, and frie." Chaucer: C. T., Prol. 319. 2. To become roasted or fit for the table by exposure to fire. rõast, s. & a. [ROAST, v.] A. As subst.: That which is roasted, as a joint of meat; that part of a slaughtered animal which is chosen for roasting, as the shoulder or leg of mutton, sirloin of beef, . "On holy days an egg or two at most, But her ambition never reach'd to roast." Dryden: Cock and Fox, 36. B. As adj .: Roasted; as, roast beef. *(1) To cry roast meat: Not to be able to keep one's good fortune to one's self. (2) Torule the roast : To have or take the lead or mastery; to be master or chief. (Prob. for to rule the roost.) "Suffolk, the new-made duke, that rules the roast." Shakesp.: Henry VI., Pt. II., i. 1. roast-beef plant, s. Bot.: Iris fœtidi ima . [IRIS.]