Roost

Part of speech: noun (n.)

Roast. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Part of speech: noun (n.)

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

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

Part of speech: verb (v.)

See Roust, v. t.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

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

2. 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.