Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Roosted"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Roost \Roost\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Roosted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Roosting}.]
1. To sit, rest, or sleep, as fowls on a pole, limb of a
tree, etc.; to perch. --Wordsworth.
2. Fig.; To lodge; to rest; to sleep.
O, let me where thy roof my soul hath hid, O, let me
roost and nestle there. --Herbert.
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