Word Meanings - ROASTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One who roasts meat. 2. A contrivance for roasting. 3. A pig, or other article of food fit for roasting.

Related words: (words related to ROASTER)

• ROAST
  1. To cook meat, fish, etc., by heat, as before the fire or in an oven. He could roast, and seethe, and broil, and fry. Chaucer. 2. To undergo the process of being roasted.
• OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
  Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.
• ARTICLE
  1. To formulate in articles; to set forth in distinct particulars. If all his errors and follies were articled against him, the man would seem vicious and miserable. Jer. Taylor. 2. To accuse or charge by an exhibition of articles. He shall be
• OTHER
  andar, Icel. annarr, Sw. annan, Dan. anden, Goth. an, Skr. antara: cf. L. alter; all orig. comparatives: cf. Skr. anya other. sq. 1. Different from that which, or the one who, has been specified; not the same; not identical; additional; second
• OTHERNESS
  The quality or state of being other or different; alterity; oppositeness.
• ARTICLED
  Bound by articles; apprenticed; as, an articled clerk.
• OTHERGATES
  In another manner. He would have tickled you othergates. Shak.
• OTHERWISE
  1. In a different manner; in another way, or in other ways; differently; contrarily. Chaucer. Thy father was a worthy prince, And merited, alas! a better fate; But Heaven thought otherwise. Addison. 2. In other respects. It is said, truly, that
• ROASTER
  1. One who roasts meat. 2. A contrivance for roasting. 3. A pig, or other article of food fit for roasting.
• OTHERWAYS
  See TYNDALE
• OTHERWHERE
  In or to some other place, or places; elsewhere. Milton. Tennyson.
• CONTRIVANCE
  1. The act or faculty of contriving, inventing, devising, or planning. The machine which we are inspecting demonstrates, by its construction, contrivance and design. Contrivance must have had a contriver. Paley. 2. The thing contrived, invented,
• ROASTING
  a. & n., from Roast, v. Roasting ear, an ear of Indian corn at that stage of development when it is fit to be eaten roasted. -- Roasting jack, a machine for turning a spit on which meat is roasted.
• OTHERWHILE; OTHERWHILES
  At another time, or other times; sometimes; Weighing otherwhiles ten pounds and more. Holland.
• NOTOTHERIUM
  An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
• ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
  Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n.
• SMOTHER
  Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick
• ISOTHEROMBROSE
  A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• UNMOTHERED
  Deprived of a mother; motherless.
• ISOTHERMAL
  Relating to equality of temperature. Having reference to the geographical distribution of temperature, as exhibited by means of isotherms; as, an isothermal line; an isothermal chart. Isothermal line. An isotherm. A line drawn on a diagram
• EEL-MOTHER
  The eelpout.
• ISOTHERMOBATHIC
  Of or pertaining to an isothermobath; possessing or indicating equal temperatures in a vertical section, as of the ocean.
• MOTHER-OF-PEARL
  The hard pearly internal layer of several kinds of shells, esp. of pearl oysters, river mussels, and the abalone shells; nacre. See Pearl.
• MOTHER'S DAY
  A day appointed for the honor and uplift of motherhood by the loving remembrance of each person of his mother through the performance of some act of kindness, visit, tribute, or letter. The founder of the day is Anna Jarvis, of Philadelphia, who
• STEPMOTHER
  The wife of one's father by a subsequent marriage.
• DINOTHERE; DINOTHERIUM
  A large extinct proboscidean mammal from the miocene beds of Europe and Asia. It is remarkable fora pair of tusks directed downward from the decurved apex of the lower jaw.
• MOTHERING
  A rural custom in England, of visiting one's parents on Midlent Sunday, -- supposed to have been originally visiting the mother church to make offerings at the high altar.
• MOTHERLESS
  Destitute of a mother; having lost a mother; as, motherless children.
• FOTHER
  fuder a cartload, a unit of measure, OHG. fuodar, D. voeder, and perh. to E. fathom, or cf. Skr. patra vessel, dish. Cf. Fodder a 1. A wagonload; a load of any sort. Of dung full many a fother. Chaucer. 2. See Fodder, a unit of weight.
• MOTHER-OF-THYME
  An aromatic plant ; -- called also wild thyme.
• HOMOEOTHERMAL
  See HOMOIOTHERMAL
• CHEIROTHERIUM
  A genus of extinct animals, so named from fossil footprints rudely resembling impressions of the human hand, and believed to have been made by labyrinthodont reptiles. See Illustration in Appendix.