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roast

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roast [rōst]
(metallurgy)
To heat ore to effect some chemical change that will facilitate smelting.


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"I smell roast beef cooking," he mumbled-- "underdone roast beef--with brown gravy over it.
From all the windows the candles were gleaming, and it smelt so deliciously of roast goose, for you know it was New Year's Eve; yes, of that she thought.
Perhaps if the roast of mutton or of beef--a big, generous one--were brought on the table and carved in full view of the client, that might give the right sense of earnestness and reality to the thing; but they don't do that, they pass the sliced meat around on a dish, and so you are perfectly calm, it does not stir you in the least.
 
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