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English Dictionary: Roosting by the DICT Development Group
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Roost \Roost\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Roosted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Roosting}.]
      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.
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