unroost

English

Etymology

un- +‎ roost

Verb

unroost (third-person singular simple present unroosts, present participle unroosting, simple past and past participle unroosted)

1. (transitive) To drive from the roost.
   • 1611, William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale. II. 3

     Give her the bastard,

     Thou dotard; thou art woman-tired, unroosted

     By thy Dame Partlet here.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “unroost”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Routons, Routson, sunroot, unroots