Roasting
['rostɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) cooking (meat) by dry heat in an oven (usually with fat added); 'the slow roasting took several hours'.
Edited by Jacqueline--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Roast
(-) a. & n., from Roast, v.
Checker: Nicole
Examples
- The streets are wisely made narrow and the houses heavy and thick and stony, in order that the people may be cool in this roasting climate. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It's humane too, gen'l'men, acause, even if they've stuck in the chimbley, roasting their feet makes 'em struggle to hextricate theirselves. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- It arrived upon Christmas morning, in company with a good fat goose, which is, I have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's fire. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I watch the fire--and the boiling and the roasting-- When there is any, says Mr. George with great expression. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Look at Ma,' whispered Lavinia to Bella when this was done, and they stood over the roasting fowls. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Such roasting heat, such oppressive solitude, and such dismal desolation can not surely exist elsewhere on earth. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- E is a crown-wheel escapement--like that in a bottle roasting-jack--which turns A alternately to the left and right, thus causing the hand to traverse the 13 cards. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Baking and Roasting. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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