ROOST

Roast. [Obs.] Chaucer.

See Roust, v. t.

The pole or other support on which fowls rest at night; a perch. He clapped his wings upon his roost. Dryden.

A collection of fowls roosting together. At roost, on a perch or roost; hence, retired to rest.

To sit, rest, or sleep, as fowls on a pole, limb of a tree, etc.; to perch. Wordsworth.

Fig.; To lodge; to rest; to sleep. O, let me where thy roof my soul hath hid, O, let me roost and nestle there. Herbert.