Crossword clues for roosting
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Roost \Roost\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Roosted; p. pr. & vb. n. Roosting.]
To sit, rest, or sleep, as fowls on a pole, limb of a tree, etc.; to perch.
--Wordsworth.-
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.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of roost English)
Usage examples of "roosting".
A few of them are roosting in feathered skins on the roof of the porch and in the twisty boughs of the old crab apple tree growing up along one side of it.
If we go now we can reach a roosting place close enough to it to attack before the hunters leave in the morning.
Whether the Clumsy Ones were gone or not, it was time to seek a new roosting place.
It was like being a member of a band of starlings, or of roosting rooks.
Somehow she manages to wiggle through the crowd of Harvards around the posts, and the next thing anybody knows she shins up one of the posts faster than you can say scat, and pretty soon is roosting out on the crossbar between the posts like a chipmunk.
So the Harvards knock down Sam the Gonoph and Nubbsy Taylor and Jew Louie and Benny South Street and old Liverlips just once more and then all the Harvards put their heads together and say rah-rah-rah, very loud, and go away, leaving the goalposts still standing, with our little doll still roosting on the crossbar, although afterward I hear some Harvards who are not in the fight get the posts at the other end of the field and sneak away with them.
These were cannibal bats that rampaged among the roosting species, all of which were covered with tiny bloodsucking insects which themselves provided asylum for even smaller parasitic blood-fleas.
They were everywhere, roosting, probably by the hundreds of thousands, bats upside down, apparently blinking in response to the intruding light, their eyes becoming constituent glint-points of a vast flash effect that surged across the broad ceiling.
Some were airborne now, a few, the great majority still chloroformed in roosting posture, suspended in their self-enfolding fur.
Kasane gave a little squeak when Cat disturbed some roosting chickens and they flapped away.
The fair country they looked upon was once more the filthy roosting place of the rus and those birds were rising again to circle and scream.
To his continued amazement none of the birds now roosting above did more than stare down at him.
Scores of them settled atop the balloon while hundreds more fought for roosting space, and all immediately began contributing to a new encrustation.