Burns, Dedication to Gavin Hamilton

roost1 (röst), n. [ Who [the cock] daily riseth when the Sun doth rise, And when Sol setteth, then to roost he hies. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 5. Dryden, Cock and Fox, 1. 46. He clapp'd his wings upon his roost . IMG:content-2451.jpg:[graphic] roost You sands of white gulls, gone to their nightly roost , rested on every ledge and cornice of the rock. B. Taylor , Northern Travel, p. 304. These roosts [of wild pigeons) have been known to extend for a distance of forty miles in length and several miles in breadth. Stand . Nat . Hist . , IV. 251. Hence-2. A temporary abiding or resting place.