These are the meanings of the letters SORTAU 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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Roust (v. t.)
To rouse; to disturb; as, to roust one out.
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Roust (n.)
A strong tide or current, especially in a narrow channel.
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Stour (n.)
A battle or tumult; encounter; combat; disturbance; passion.
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Stour (a.)
Tall; strong; stern.
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Sutra (n.)
A precept; an aphorism; a brief rule.
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Sutra (n.)
A collection of such aphorisms.
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Sutra (n.)
A body of Hindoo literature containing aphorisms on grammar, meter, law, and philosophy, and forming a connecting link between the Vedic and later Sanscrit literature.
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Torus (n.)
A lage molding used in the bases of columns. Its profile is semicircular. See Illust. of Molding.
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Torus (n.)
One of the ventral parapodia of tubicolous annelids. It usually has the form of an oblong thickening or elevation of the integument with rows of uncini or hooks along the center. See Illust. under Tubicolae.
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Torus (n.)
The receptacle, or part of the flower on which the carpels stand.
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Torus (n.)
See 3d Tore, 2.