roost

1. Roost
   A collection of fowls roosting together.
2. Roost
   Roast.
3. Roost
   The pole or other support on which fowls rest at night; a perch. "He clapped his wings upon his roost ."
4. Roost
   To sit, rest, or sleep, as fowls on a pole, limb of a tree, etc.; to perch.

1. (n) roost
   A pole or perch upon which fowls rest at night; any place upon which a bird may perch to rest; also, a locality where birds, as pigeons, habitually spend the night.
2. (n) roost
   Hence A temporary abiding- or resting-place.
3. (n) roost
   The fowls which occupy such a roost, collectively. A somewhat special application of the word (like rookery, 2) is to the roosts of some perching birds, which assemble in vast numbers, but not to breed, and for no obvious purpose that would not be as well attained without such congregation. Among conspicuous instances may be noted the roosts of the passenger-pigeon, sometimes several miles in extent, and the winter roosts of many thousands of crows (see crow, 2), which in the breeding season are dispersed. It is not generally known that the common robin of the United States sometimes forms such roosts in summer.
4. (n) roost
   The inner roof of a cottage, composed of spars reaching from one wall to the other; a garret. Jamieson. [Scotch.]
5. roost
   To occupy a roost; perch, as a bird.
6. roost
   To stick or stay upon a resting-place; cling or adhere to a rest, as a limpet on a rock.
7. roost
   To set or perch, as a bird on a roost: used reflexively.
8. roost
   See roust.

1. (n) Roost
   rōōst a pole or support on which a bird rests at night: a number of fowls resting together:
2. (v.i) Roost
   to sit or sleep on a roost
3. (n) Roost
   rōōst (Scot.) the inner roof of a cottage

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