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unˈroost, v.
[un-2 5 and 7.]
1. trans. To dislodge from a roost or perch. Also fig., to dislodge or force out of a place, to drive out or away.
1598Florio, Disnidare, to vnroost, to vn-nest. 1611Shakes. Wint. T. ii. iii. 74 Thou dotard, thou art woman-tyr'd: vnroosted By thy dame Partlet heere. 1647Trapp Comm. Rev. xiv. 20 The Pope being driven from Rome, shall flie and sit, till Christ shall unroost him. 1682Bunyan Holy War 236 He also saw..how he was unroosted and made to quit the Castle. 1780Johnson Let. to Mrs. Thrale 12 June, Though I am sorry that you should be so outrageously unroosted, I think that Bath has had you long enough. 1834M. Scott Cruise Miage II. 12 Shoving the blade to the drowning man, with some danger of being unroosted myself in the attempt.
2. intr. To leave a roost; fig. to rise from bed.
1614J. Cooke Greene's Tu Quoque L 3, [It is] time to goe to Church, and not a man vnroosted. 1821Clare Vill. Minstr. II. 24 The crows, unroosting as he comes in sight.
Hence unˈroosted ppl. a.; unˈroosting vbl. n.
1615[see unresting vbl. n.]. 1691Dryden K. Arthur iv. i, The pass is free; The unroosted fiends have quitted this abode. |