These are the meanings of the letters OVATORS when you unscramble them.
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Roast (v. t.)
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.
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Roast (v. t.)
To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.; as, to roast a potato in ashes.
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Roast (v. t.)
To dry and parch by exposure to heat; as, to roast coffee; to roast chestnuts, or peanuts.
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Roast (v. t.)
Hence, to heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.
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Roast (v. t.)
To dissipate by heat the volatile parts of, as ores.
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Roast (v. t.)
To banter severely.
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Roast (v. i.)
To cook meat, fish, etc., by heat, as before the fire or in an oven.
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Roast (v. i.)
To undergo the process of being roasted.
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Roast (n.)
That which is roasted; a piece of meat which has been roasted, or is suitable for being roasted.
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Roast (a.)
Roasted; as, roast beef.
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Roost (n.)
Roast.
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Roost (v. t.)
See Roust, v. t.
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Roost (n.)
The pole or other support on which fowls rest at night; a perch.
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Roost (n.)
A collection of fowls roosting together.
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Roost (v. i.)
To sit, rest, or sleep, as fowls on a pole, limb of a tree, etc.; to perch.
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Roost (v. i.)
Fig.; To lodge; to rest; to sleep.
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Savor (a.)
That property of a thing which affects the organs of taste or smell; taste and odor; flavor; relish; scent; as, the savor of an orange or a rose; an ill savor.
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Savor (a.)
Hence, specific flavor or quality; characteristic property; distinctive temper, tinge, taint, and the like.
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Savor (a.)
Sense of smell; power to scent, or trace by scent.
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Savor (a.)
Pleasure; delight; attractiveness.
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Savor (n.)
To have a particular smell or taste; -- with of.
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Savor (n.)
To partake of the quality or nature; to indicate the presence or influence; to smack; -- with of.
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Savor (n.)
To use the sense of taste.
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Savor (v. t.)
To perceive by the smell or the taste; hence, to perceive; to note.
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Savor (v. t.)
To have the flavor or quality of; to indicate the presence of.
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Savor (v. t.)
To taste or smell with pleasure; to delight in; to relish; to like; to favor.
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Torso (n.)
The human body, as distinguished from the head and limbs; in sculpture, the trunk of a statue, mutilated of head and limbs; as, the torso of Hercules.