Bible Dictionaries
Roast

King James Dictionary

Search for…

Enter query below:

or

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z

Prev Entry
Roaring

Next Entry
Roasted

Resource Toolbox

Print Article

Additional Links

Dictionaries
Holman Bible Dictionary
• Roasted Grain
King James Dictionary
• Roasted
• Roast
Wilson's Bible Types
• Roast
Webster Dictionary
• Roasting
• Roasted
• Roast
Encyclopedias
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Roast
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• ROAST.
Lexicons
• ܛܘܳܝܳܐ
• בָּשַׁל
• חָרַךְ
• צָלָה
•   (only first 3 shown)

ROAST, If the verb is from the noun, the sense is to dress or cook on a gridiron or grate, and rist, rost, coincide in elements with L. rastellum, a rake. If the verb is the root, the sense probably is to contract or crisp, or to throw or agitate, hence to make rough.

1. To cook, dress or prepare meat for the table by exposing it to heat, as on a spit. In a bake-pan, in an oven or the like. We now say, to roast meat on a spit, in a pan, or in a tin oven, &c. to bake meat in an oven to broil meat on a gridiron.

2. To prepare for food by exposure to heat as, to roast apples or potatoes to roast eggs.

3. To heat to excess to heat violently.

Roasted in wrath and fire.

4. To dry and parch by exposure to heat as, to roast coffee.

5. In metallurgy, to dissipate the volatile parts of ore by heat.

6. In common discourse, to jeer to banter severely.

ROAST, n. That which is roasted.

ROAST, a. for roasted. Roasted as roast beef.

ROAST, n. In the phrase, to rule the roast, this word is a corrupt pronunciation.