Word Finder - roasted

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To cook food by heating in an oven or over a fire without covering, resulting in a crisp, possibly even slightly charred appearance.

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to roast meat on a spit

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To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.

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to roast a potato in ashes

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To process by drying through exposure to sun or artificial heat

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Coffee beans need roasting before use.

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To heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.

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To admonish someone vigorously

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I’m late home for the fourth time this week; my mate will really roast me this time.

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To subject to bantering, severely criticize, sometimes as a comedy routine.

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The class clown enjoys being roasted by mates as well as staff.

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To dissipate by heat the volatile parts of, as ores.

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Cooked by roasting.

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• roast

I'll do new potatoes and roasted root vegetables.

Some of the roasted ore is strewed upon it, and, after a quarter of an hour's working, the whole is taken out on the work-stone, where the lead produced runs off.

These are either roasted or exposed to the weathering action of the air.

The cut tobacco is now roasted, partly with the view of driving off mositure and bringing the material into a condition for keeping, but also partly to improve its smoking quality.

The charge of the retorts consists of a mixture of 1100 lb of roasted calamine and 550 lb of dry powdered coal per furnace.

The precipitate is collected in a filter-press, and then roasted in muffle furnaces with nitre, borax and sodium carbonate.

The flesh of the American beaver is eaten by the Indians, and when roasted in the skin is esteemed a delicacy and is said to taste like pork.

The mixture of calcium and lead carbonates is filtered off and roasted at a low red heat in order to regenerate the calcium plumbate.

Traces of thallium, which are present in some pyrites, may be detected in the flues of the furnaces where the metal is roasted.

The turtle is also found, the carapace being exported as tortoiseshell, the animal being gently roasted or boiled alive over a slow fire to facilitate the separation of the shell from the flesh.

The sustenance of the poorer classes is chiefly composed of fish, potatoes and gofio, which is merely Indian corn or wheat roasted, ground and kneaded with water or milk.

When the former is used it is roasted with calcium sulphate or alkali waste to form a matte which is then blown in a Bessemer converter or heated in a reverberatory furnace with a siliceous flux with the object of forming a rich nickel sulphide.

The nickel sulphide so obtained is then roasted to oxide and reduced to metal.

By the Romans they were sometimes eaten roasted.

Linseed formed an article of food among the Greeks and Romans, and it is said that the Abyssinians at the present day eat it roasted.

In his brazen bull, invented, it is said, by Perillus of Athens, the tyrant's victims were shut up and, a fire being kindled beneath, were roasted alive, while their shrieks represented the bellowing of the bull.

The roasted ore is then smelted to a mixture of copper and iron sulphides, known as copper " matte " or " coarse-metal," which contains little or no arsenic, antimony or silica.

Roasted ores may be smelted in reverberatory furnaces (English process), or in blast-furnaces (German or Swedish process).

The ore is under better control than is possible with the continuous feed and discharge, and when sufficiently roasted can be passed red-hot to the reverberatory furnace.

In Butte, Montana, reverberatories have in the past been preferred to cupola furnaces, as the charge has consisted mainly of fine roasted concentrates; but the cupola is gaining ground there.

The low percentage of sulphur in the roasted ore is little more than enough to produce a matte of 40 to 45%, and therefore the escaping gases are better fitted than those of most copper cupola furnaces for burning in a stove.

A portion of the white metal is calcined to such a degree of oxidation that when fused with the unroasted portion, the reaction between the oxygen in the roasted matte and the sulphur in the raw VII.

Heriot (De Bry's Collection of Voyages), in his report on Virginia, describes a plant under the same name "with roots as large as a walnut and others much larger; they grow in damp soil, many hanging together as if fixed on ropes; they are good food either boiled or roasted."

Antimony, however, occurs chiefly as the sulphide, stibnite; to a much smaller extent it occurs in combination with other metallic sulphides in the minerals wolfsbergite, boulangerite, bournonite, pyrargyrite, &c. For the preparation of metallic antimony the crude stibnite is first liquated, to free it from earthy and siliceous matter, and is then roasted in order to convert it into oxide.

The Hindus eat it mixed with honey as a delicacy, equal quantities being put into a hollow joint, coated externally with clay, and thus roasted over a fire.

Chestnuts (the fruit of the tree) are extensively imported into Great Britain, and are eaten roasted or boiled, and mashed or otherwise as a vegetable.

Ores containing much arsenic or sulphur are generally roasted at a low heat and the assay is made on the roasted material.

The opium must not be burnt or made too dry, but roasted gently till it looks like burnt worsted; every now and then he takes it away from the flame and rolls it (still on the end of the dipper) on the flat surface of the bowl.

When it is roasted and rolled to his satisfaction he gently heats the centre of the bowl, where there is a small orifice; then he quickly thrusts the end of the dipper into the orifice, twirls it round smartly and withdraws it; if this is properly done, the opium (now about the size of a grain of hemp-seed or a little larger) is left adhering to the bowl immediately over the orifice.

He is roasted over a slow fire and basted with boiling oil, but tells his tormentors that by the grace of Jesus Christ he feels nothing.

The steam-chest is not used to such an extent, as the bottom would be prematurely corroded; less water is used, as the pulp would become too thin on account of the soluble salts (sodium chloride, sulphate, &c.) going into solution; and the roasted ore is not ground, as the hot brine readily dissolves the silver chloride from the porous ore, and thus brings it into intimate contact with iron and quicksilver.

That the men of the Quaternary period knew the savage art of producing fire by friction, and roasted the flesh on which they mainly subsisted, is proved by the fragments of charcoal found in the cave deposits, where also occur bone awls and needles, which indicate the wearing of skin clothing, like that of the modern Australians and Fuegians.

If the ore is in pieces of the size of a walnut Or upwards, it is roasted in plain" kilns "or" burners,"provided with a grating of suitable construction for the removal of the cinders, with a side door in the upper part for charging in the fresh ore on the top of the partially burned ore, and with an arch-shaped roof, from which the burnergas is carried away in a flue common to a whole set of kilns.

This is recrystallized and roasted to vanadium pentoxide, which is then suspended in water into which ammonia is passed, when ammonium metavanadate is again formed and may be purified by recrystallization.

The filet of monkfish with roasted cherry tomatoes and pesto is well worth trying.

I have pared the devil's nails forty times, roasted them in raven's eggs, and cured agues with them.

Hazel nuts and roasted almonds in white wines, dried figs in red ones.

With a 4% ABV this session ale has a pronounced floral hop aroma tempered with an underlying roasted malt character.

Medium roasted for a smooth, richly aromatic liquor, suitable for drinking throughout the day.

These were covered in lovely roasted aubergines, peppers and mushrooms in garlic & olive oil.

Guinness Red, a new product made from lightly roasted barley, will be launched in the UK over the next few months.

Sandwich choices consist of a roast beef au jus or roasted chicken.

And then a Fair Trade mixture of sultanas, brazil nuts, roasted cashews, yogurt coated raisins.

They have a creamy flesh with a sweet flavor that is similar to squash or roasted chestnuts.

Mix in ½ cup drained chopped roasted red peppers and ½ cup chopped fresh parsley.

This recipe is a traditional Italian risotto with roasted mushrooms.

Sandwich choices consist of a roast beef au jus or roast beef au jus or roasted chicken.

Roasted Rack of best English Lamb with fresh rosemary, served with a mint jus.

For his next course Marc chose roasted rump of lamb with a sweetbread in truffle crust and tarragon and tomato jus.

Place three spoonfuls of the pea puree onto the plate, positioning the roasted scallops in between.