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Turnspit :: Turnspit (n.) A small breed of dogs having a long body and short crooked legs. These dogs were formerly much used for turning a spit on which meat was roasting.

Zaffer :: Zaffer (n.) A pigment obtained, usually by roasting cobalt glance with sand or quartz, as a dark earthy powder. It consists of crude cobalt oxide, or of an impure cobalt arseniate. It is used in porcelain painting, and in enameling pottery, to produce a blue color, and is often confounded with smalt, from which, however, it is distinct, as it contains no potash. The name is often loosely applied to mixtures of zaffer proper with silica, or oxides of iron, manganese, etc..

Magian :: Magian (n.) One of the Magi, or priests of the Zoroastrian religion in Persia; an adherent of the Zoroastrian religion..

Spit :: Spit (n.) A long, slender, pointed rod, usually of iron, for holding meat while roasting..

Zoroastrianism :: Zoroastrianism (n.) The religious system of Zoroaster, the legislator and prophet of the ancient Persians, which was the national faith of Persia; mazdeism. The system presupposes a good spirit (Ormuzd) and an opposing evil spirit (Ahriman). Cf. Fire worship, under Fire, and Parsee..

Cabob :: Cabob (n.) A leg of mutton roasted, stuffed with white herrings and sweet herbs..

Coffee :: Coffee (n.) The beverage made from the roasted and ground berry.

Dredge :: Dredge (v. t.) To sift or sprinkle flour, etc., on, as on roasting meat..

Barbecue :: Barbecue (v. t.) To roast or broil whole, as an ox or hog..

Roast :: Roast (v. t.) Hence, to heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn..

Assamar :: Assamar (n.) The peculiar bitter substance, soft or liquid, and of a yellow color, produced when meat, bread, gum, sugar, starch, and the like, are roasted till they turn brown..

Mazdeism :: Mazdeism (n.) The Zoroastrian religion.

Brewis :: Brewis (n.) Bread soaked in broth, drippings of roast meat, milk, or water and butter..

Roast :: Roast (v. i.) To cook meat, fish, etc., by heat, as before the fire or in an oven..

Kitchen :: Kitchen (n.) A utensil for roasting meat; as, a tin kitchen..

Decrepitate :: Decrepitate (v. t.) To roast or calcine so as to cause a crackling noise; as, to decrepitate salt..

Roasting :: Roasting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Roas.

Matte :: Matte (n.) A partly reduced copper sulphide, obtained by alternately roasting and melting copper ore in separating the metal from associated iron ores, and called coarse metal, fine metal, etc., according to the grade of fineness. On the exterior it is dark brown or black, but on a fresh surface is yellow or bronzy in color..

Zend :: Zend (n.) Properly, the translation and exposition in the Huzv/resh, or literary Pehlevi, language, of the Avesta, the Zoroastrian sacred writings; as commonly used, the language (an ancient Persian dialect) in which the Avesta is written..

Decrepitate :: Decrepitate (v. i.) To crackle, as salt in roasting..

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