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▪ I. ˈroosting, vbl. n.1
[f. roost v.]
1. Perching for rest; places for perching.
1604Drayton Owle Poems (1619) 423 By all signes..The Birds therein their nightly roosting made. 1713Derham Phys.-Theol. vii. i. §5 The Legs all curved for their easy Perching, Roosting, and Rest. 1820Scott in Lockhart (1837) IV. 376 A great deal of valuable fir planting, which you may remember; fine roosting for the black game.
2. a. attrib., as roosting area, roosting behaviour, roosting-cage, roosting habit, roosting-house, roosting site, roosting-stick, roosting-time, roosting-tree.
1976T. Soper Everyday Birds v. 59 When birds reach the vicinity of the roosting area there will often be a spectacular flying display.
1953Brit. Jrnl. Animal Behaviour I. 91 (heading) The winter roosting and awakening behaviour of captive Great Tits. 1964A. L. Thomson New Dict. Birds 709/1 Roosting behaviour varies from species to species, and to some extent within a species. 1976H. M. Dobinson Bird Count ix. 150 (heading) Roosting habits of our most common species.
1844H. Stephens Bk. Farm I. 153 An opening..in the outer wall of the roosting-house.
1840Penny Cycl. XVIII. 477/1 The first roosting-perch..should be placed lengthways.
1874J. W. Long Amer. Wild-fowl ix. 161 In the evening the ducks will be seen coming from the roosting-ponds.
1953Brit. Jrnl. Animal Behaviour I. 91/2 Aggressive behaviour over roosting sites was seen on a few evenings.
1927W. de la Mare Told Again 287 The hens on their roosting-sticks.
1621–3Middleton & Rowley Changeling iv. i, At roosting time a little lodge can hold 'em. 1743W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman July xvi. 77, I..took the Hen and her Young at Roosting Time. 1825C. Waterton Wanderings in S. Amer. 119 All the Toucanets feed on the same trees... You will find it has only been a dinner party, which breaks up and disperses towards roosting time. 1953Brit. Jrnl. Animal Behaviour I. 91/1 In England the changes in the roosting times [of Great Tits] are similar to those in the north but less marked.
1834J. J. Audubon Ornith. Biogr. II. 41 These roosting-trees of the Buzzards are generally in deep swamps, and mostly in high dead cypress trees.
1879Jefferies Wild Life 281 They [sc. rooks] stretch from here to the roosting-trees.
b. Esp. roosting-place; also fig.
1725Fam. Dict. s.v. Poultry, Being wont in a Morning early, to go out of the Hen-House or Roosting-Place. 1789G. White Selborne cvi, The poultry dared not to stir out of their roosting-places. 1809Malkin Gil Blas i. xiii. ⁋6, I..slunk to my roosting-place, where I fell asleep. 1844Alb. Smith Adv. Mr. Ledbury iii, Jack quitted his roosting-place amongst the baggage. 1874J. W. Long Amer. Wild-fowl xxiv. 245 When their feeding-grounds and roosting-places are near together.
▪ II. † ˈroosting, vbl. n.2 Obs.—1
In 6 roostynge.
[Cf. roost n.2]
Turbulent flow or turmoil.
1555Eden Decades (Arb.) 382 We mette northerly wyndes and greate roostynge of tydes.
▪ III. ˈroosting, ppl. a.
[f. roost v.]
That roosts or perches; going to roost.
1798Bloomfield Farmer's Boy, Autumn xlii, From each bough The roosting Pheasant's short but frequent crow Invites to rest. 1813Scott Rokeby v. ii, Hoarse into middle air arose The vespers of the roosting crows. 1886Daily News 24 Sept. 5/2 They..startle from its crumbling recesses the roosting doves. |