Cooking (meat) by dry heat in an oven (usually with fat added)

Usage examples of roasting.

He took a deep, contented breath of air scented with the homely smells of campfires in the distance and roasting dinner near at handand belatedly recalled the one small detail whose welfare was still his exclusive concern.

Horsethief Shorty and that Carl Montana and the state engineer, Nelson Bookman, all sitting around a campfire up by the Little Baldy Bear Lakes, roasting miniature Joe Mondragons skewered like hot dogs on aspen twigs over their campfire.

They had brought old sail canvas from the carack and made shelters along the strand, where beef was still roasting and the ale granted them by their captain was doled out sparingly.

We had reached the shore, warm, welcoming lights glowed from the dahabeeyah and the aroma of roasting mutton wafted to our nostrils.

Martinez had earned his nickname for his zeal in roasting heretics at the auto defe, as the public spectacles of punishment were called.

Pour the stock into the roasting pan to deglaze it, and leave the stock in the pan.

Instead of my flesh, which stinks of the carrion I eat, you will have hills of white fat and mountains of the sweet meat of the eland roasting on your fire every night of your life.

The scene had enraptured him, the red glow of charcoal braziers burning along the lake side, chestnut roasting, musicians playing violins and mandolins.

Above all things, She longed for the taste of flame in each of Her mouths, the brilliant jets lancing straight into the crowd, the sound of screaming and the luscious flagrance of roasting flesh.

He realised that he was quite looking forward to the next Loopy outrage, and even to the roasting that would ineluctably follow it, as the night the day.

Thirty oxen had been roasting since early that morning and, after another recitation by the ollamh, the great king invited his lords to eat and drink with him.

The mispickel and copper and iron pyrites are converted into oxides by roasting, and are in great part removed by a subsequent washing.

She banged sai Piggy back into the roasting pan for the nonce, pulled the shirt she was wearing off over her head, and turned it so she could look at the front.

I got the roasting heat and the crocodiles and the snakes and the long safaris up-country, selling Shell oil to the men who ran the diamond mines and the sisal plantations.

The boy is sitting with his feet on the fender and roasting chestnuts on a toasting-fork held at the fire while Mr Vulliamy is slumbering at his desk with his head resting upon his papers.