To cook, dress or prepare meat for the table by exposing it to heat, as on a spit. In a bake-pan, in an oven or the like. We now say, to roast meat on a spit, in a pan, or in a tin oven; to bake meat in an oven; to broil meat on a gridiron.

To prepare for food by exposure to heat; as, to roast apples or potatoes; to roast eggs.

To heat to excess; to heat violently. Roasted in wrath and fire.

To dry and parch by exposure to heat; as, to roast coffee.

In metallurgy, to dissipate the volatile parts of ore by heat.

In common discourse, to jeer; to banter severely.

That which is roasted.

Roasted; as roast beef.

In the phrase, to rule the roast, this word is a corrupt pronunciation.