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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Roast \Roast\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Roasted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Roasting}.] [OE. rosten, OF. rostir, F. r[^o]tir; of German origin; cf. OHG. r[=o]sten, G. r["o]sten, fr. OHG. r[=o]st, r[=o]sta, 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.
2. To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.; as, to roast a potato in ashes.
In eggs boiled and roasted there is scarce difference to be discerned. --BAcon.
3. To dry and parch by exposure to heat; as, to roast coffee; to roast chestnuts, or peanuts.
4. Hence, to heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn. ''Roasted in wrath and fire.'' --Shak.
5. (Metal.) To dissipate by heat the volatile parts of, as ores.
6. To banter severely. [Colloq.] --Atterbury.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Roasting \Roast"ing\, a. & n., from {Roast}, v.
{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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
roasting
noun: cooking (meat) by dry heat in an oven (usually with fat added); "the slow roasting took several hours"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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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