| 单词 | at roost |
| 释义 | > as lemmasat roost b. at roost: roosting, perched. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > actions or bird defined by > [phrase] > perched at juke1626 at roost1690 1690 J. Dryden Amphitryon ii. ii. 21 You Trencher-carrying Raskal, you worse than Dunghill-Cock; that stood clapping your Wings and crowing without Doors, when you shou'd have been at roost, you Villain. 1692 R. L'Estrange Fables cccliii A Fox spy'd a Cock at Roost with his Hens about him. 1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. vii. ii. 385 The Breast, and its Bone, made like a Keel..to counterpoise the Body, and support and rest it upon at Roost. 1785 S. J. Pratt Misc. I. ii. 57 Oft would she..Sing to the birds at roost, the lambs at feed. 1864 R. Browning Mr. Sludge in Dramatis Personæ 175 While you cling by half a claw To the perch whereon you puff yourselves at roost. 1918 W. A. Stone Tale of Plain Man (ed. 2) xxx. 186 I drove down at night when the crows were all at roost. 1958 Times 7 July 2/7 The simplest way of dealing with them [sc. red mites], and with lice at the same time, is to spray the birds while at roost..with a fine sprayer containing pybuthrin. < as lemmas |
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