[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

roast \roast\, v. t. imp.  p. p. roasted; p. pr.  vb. n.
   roasting. oe. rosten, of. rostir, f. r^otir; of german
   origin; cf. ohg. r=osten, g. r"osten, fr. ohg. r=ost,
   r=osta, gridiron, g. rost; cf. as. hyrstan to roast.
   1. 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.
      1913 webster

   2. to cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.;
      as, to roast a potato in ashes.
      1913 webster

            in eggs boiled and roasted there is scarce
            difference to be discerned.           --bacon.
      1913 webster

   3. to dry and parch by exposure to heat; as, to roast coffee;
      to roast chestnuts, or peanuts.
      1913 webster

   4. hence, to heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.
      "roasted in wrath and fire." --shak.
      1913 webster

   5. metal. to dissipate by heat the volatile parts of, as
      ores.
      1913 webster

   6. to banter severely. colloq. --atterbury.
      1913 webster
see also:
roasted roasting 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

roasting \roast"ing\,
   a.  n., from roast, v.
   1913 webster

   roasting ear, an ear of indian corn at that stage of
      development when it is fit to be eaten roasted.

   roasting jack, a machine for turning a spit on which meat
      is roasted.
      1913 webster
see also:
roast roasting ear roasting jack 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

roasting
     n : cooking meat by dry heat in an oven usually with fat
         added; "the slow roasting took several hours"

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

123 moby thesaurus words for "roasting":
   ardent, ass-reaming, baking, banter, bantering, barbecuing,
   basting, bawling-out, blistering, boiling, booing, braising,
   brewing, broil, broiling, burning, burning hot, canicular,
   catcalling, catering, chaffing, chewing, cookery, cooking, cuisine,
   culinary science, cussing-out, derision, derisive, derisory,
   domestic science, dressing, dressing-down, ebullient, feverish,
   fleering, flippancy, flippant, flushed, fooling, frying,
   going-over, grilling, grinning, hazing, heated, hissing,
   home economics, hooting, hot, hot as fire, hot as hell, jacking-up,
   jeering, jesting, joking, jollying, joshing, kidding, leering,
   levity, like a furnace, like an oven, mockery, mocking, nutrition,
   overheated, overwarm, pan-broiling, panning, parching, piping hot,
   poaching, quizzical, ragging, railing, raillery, raking-down,
   rallying, razzing, reaming, reaming-out, red-hot, ribbing,
   ridicule, ridiculing, sauteing, scalding, scoffing, scorching,
   searing, seething, setdown, shirring, simmering, sizzling hot,
   smart, smart-aleckiness, smart-alecky, smart-ass, smartness,
   smirking, smoking hot, sneering, snickering, sniggering, snorting,
   speaking-to, steeping, stewing, sudorific, sweating, sweaty,
   sweltering, sweltry, talking-to, taunting, teasing, toasting,
   torrid, twitting, what-for, white-hot

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