roost (n.)

  1. a shelter with perches for fowl or other birds

  2. a perch on which domestic fowl rest or sleep

    roost (v.)

  1. sit, as on a branch; The birds perched high in the tree

    [ Syn: perch , rest ]

  2. settle down or stay, as if on a roost

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