Roast

1. Hence, to heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.
2. To undergo the process of being roasted.
3. To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.; as, to roast a potato in ashes.
4. To cook by exposure to radiant heat before a fire; as, to roast meat on a spit, or in an oven open toward the fire and having reflecting surfaces within; also, to cook in a close oven.
5. To dry and parch by exposure to heat; as, to roast coffee; to roast chestnuts, or peanuts.
6. To dissipate by heat the volatile parts of, as ores.
7. Roasted; as, roast beef.
8. To banter severely.
9. To cook meat, fish, etc., by heat, as before the fire or in an oven.
10. That which is roasted; a piece of meat which has been roasted, or is suitable for being roasted.