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roost Noun a place where birds rest or sleep Verb 1. to rest or sleep on a roost 2. come home to roost to have unfavourable repercussions 3. rule the roost to have authority over people in a particular place [Old English hrōst] Roost a collection of fowls roosting together. Examples: roost of bats hanging from trees—David Attenborough; of fowls; of small birds, 1827.
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And there were moments, proud moments, in their lives, when they were clever enough to snatch a small bird at roost off his perch. I Chile, they haunt, during the greater part of the year, th lower country near the shores of the Pacific, and at nigh several roost together in one tree; but in the early part o summer, they retire to the most inaccessible parts of th inner Cordillera, there to breed in peace. Afterward they sat down to a splendid feast, and Ozma put Dorothy at her right and Billina at her left, where the hen sat upon a golden roost and ate from a jeweled platter. |
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