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▪ I. roist
dial. variant of rice n.1
1736Pegge Kenticisms (E.D.S.), Roist, a switch to beat a dog with; or long wood, for brushwood, before it is made up. Called also Rice.
▪ II. roist
obs. form of roast n. and v.
▪ III. † roist, v. Obs.—1
Also 6 (9 arch.) royst.
[Back-formation from roister n.1]
intr. To play the roister. Cf. roister v.
1563Mirr. Mag. ii. 168 b, Traytours dyd triumphe,..Reuing and robbing roysted euery where. a1591H. Smith Serm. (1867) I. 361 They cannot be esteemed unless They royst. 1606Warner Alb. Eng. xvi. cii. 404 When their Retainors royst and wrong, yet out of Iustice leape. 1632Sherwood, To roist,..comme to swagger.
b. So to roist it (out).
1579J. Northbrooke Dicing (1843) 169 Nowe a dayes we see many seeke nothing but to royst it. 1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. ii. (1882) 75 Some of them haue..foure or fiue benefices apeece, being resident..at neuer a one, but roist it out elsewhere. 1601Dent Pathw. Heauen 171 Borne onely to game, riot,..ruffle it, and roist it out, and to spend their time in meere idlenesse. |