v. [UN-2 5 and 7.]
1. trans. To dislodge from a roost or perch. Also fig., to dislodge or force out of a place, to drive out or away.
1598. Florio, Disnidare, to vnroost, to vn-nest.
1611. Shaks., Wint. T., II. iii. 74. Thou dotard, thou art woman-tyr’d: vnroosted By thy dame Partlet heere.
1647. Trapp, Comm. Rev. xiv. 20. The Pope being driven from Rome, shall flie and sit, till Christ shall unroost him.
1682. Bunyan, Holy War, 236. He also saw … how he was unroosted and made to quit the Castle.
1780. Johnson, Lett. to Mrs. Thrale, 12 June. Though I am sorry that you should be so outrageously unroosted, I think that Bath has had you long enough.
1834. M. Scott, Cruise Midge, II. 12. Shoving the blade to the drowning man, with some danger of being unroosted myself in the attempt.
2. intr. To leave a roost; fig. to rise from bed.
1614. J. Cooke, Greene’s Tu Quoque, L 3. [It is] time to goe to Church, and not a man vnroosted.
1821. Clare, Vill. Minstr., II. 24. The crows, unroosting as he comes in sight.
Hence Unroosted ppl. a.; Unroosting vbl. sb.
1615. [see UNRESTING vbl. sb.].
1691. Dryden, K. Arthur, IV. i. The pass is free; The unroosted fiends have quitted this abode.
