Roasting

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Roast \Roast\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Roasted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Roasting}.] [OE. rosten, OF. rostir, F. r[^o]tir; of German
     origin; cf. OHG. r[=o]sten, G. r["o]sten, fr. OHG. r[=o]st,
     r[=o]sta, gridiron, G. rost; cf. AS. hyrstan to roast.]
     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.
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     2. To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.;
        as, to roast a potato in ashes.
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              In eggs boiled and roasted there is scarce
              difference to be discerned.           --BAcon.
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     3. To dry and parch by exposure to heat; as, to roast coffee;
        to roast chestnuts, or peanuts.
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     4. Hence, to heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.
        "Roasted in wrath and fire." --Shak.
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     5. (Metal.) To dissipate by heat the volatile parts of, as
        ores.
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     6. To banter severely. [Colloq.] --Atterbury.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Roasting \Roast"ing\,
     a. & n., from {Roast}, v.
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     {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.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  roasting
       n : cooking (meat) by dry heat in an oven (usually with fat
           added); "the slow roasting took several hours"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  123 Moby Thesaurus words for "roasting":
     ardent, ass-reaming, baking, banter, bantering, barbecuing,
     basting, bawling-out, blistering, boiling, booing, braising,
     brewing, broil, broiling, burning, burning hot, canicular,
     catcalling, catering, chaffing, chewing, cookery, cooking, cuisine,
     culinary science, cussing-out, derision, derisive, derisory,
     domestic science, dressing, dressing-down, ebullient, feverish,
     fleering, flippancy, flippant, flushed, fooling, frying,
     going-over, grilling, grinning, hazing, heated, hissing,
     home economics, hooting, hot, hot as fire, hot as hell, jacking-up,
     jeering, jesting, joking, jollying, joshing, kidding, leering,
     levity, like a furnace, like an oven, mockery, mocking, nutrition,
     overheated, overwarm, pan-broiling, panning, parching, piping hot,
     poaching, quizzical, ragging, railing, raillery, raking-down,
     rallying, razzing, reaming, reaming-out, red-hot, ribbing,
     ridicule, ridiculing, sauteing, scalding, scoffing, scorching,
     searing, seething, setdown, shirring, simmering, sizzling hot,
     smart, smart-aleckiness, smart-alecky, smart-ass, smartness,
     smirking, smoking hot, sneering, snickering, sniggering, snorting,
     speaking-to, steeping, stewing, sudorific, sweating, sweaty,
     sweltering, sweltry, talking-to, taunting, teasing, toasting,
     torrid, twitting, what-for, white-hot