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Roosted

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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roosted

vb. (en-past of: roost)

Usage examples of "roosted".

Guild, Belgan had accepted the charge to free the Wastes of the corruption that now roosted in Tu-lar.

Vergere offered from one of the other beds, atop which she roosted like an outsize avian.

On reaching it there was a flurry of white, fan-tailed doves, which roosted on the sill outside.