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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.

One who roasts meat.

a. & n., from Roast, v. 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.

To roast too much. Shak.

To beat soundly. [Slang]

Of or pertaining to Zoroaster, or his religious system.

The religious system of Zoroaster, the legislator and prophet of the ancient Persians, which was the national faith of Persia; mazdeism. The system presupposes a good spirit (Ormuzd) and an opposing evil spirit (Ahriman). Cf. Fire worship, under Fire, and Parsee.

Same as Zoroastrianism. Tylor.

ough. See An, conj. [Obs.] Chaucer. As they will set an house on fire, and it were but to roast their eggs. Bacon. And so forth, and others; and the rest; and similar things; and other things or ingredients. The abbreviation, etc. (et cetera), or &c., is usually read and so forth.

, and of a yellow color, produced when meat, bread, gum, sugar, starch, and the like, are roasted till they turn brown.

Roasting. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

The Zoroastrian scriptures. See Zend-Avesta.

A hog, ox, or other large animal roasted or broiled whole for a feast.

To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.

An apple roasted till black, to be served in a dish of boiled custard.

Bread soaked in broth, drippings of roast meat, milk, or water and butter.

A spit; a broach. On five sharp broachers ranked, the roast they turned. Dryden.

A wooden frame or grid for roasting, smoking, or drying meat over fire.

A small piece of mutton or other meat roasted on a skewer; -- so called in Turkey and Persia.

A small saucer of clay for roasting or melting samples of ores, etc.; a scorifier.