Vocabulary : Roaring forties to Robbed

Roaring forties : The middle latitudes of the southern hemisphere. So called from the boisterous and prevailing westerly winds, which are especially strong in the South Indian Ocean up to 50 S.
Roaringly : In a roaring manner.
Roast : 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. ;; To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.; as, to roast a potato in ashes. ;; To dry and parch by exposure to heat; as, to roast coffee; to roast chestnuts, or peanuts. ;; Hence, to heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn. ;; To dissipate by heat the volatile parts of, as ores. ;; To banter severely. ;; To cook meat, fish, etc., by heat, as before the fire or in an oven. ;; To undergo the process of being roasted. ;; That which is roasted; a piece of meat which has been roasted, or is suitable for being roasted. ;; Roasted; as, roast beef.
Roasted : of Roast
Roaster : One who roasts meat. ;; A contrivance for roasting. ;; A pig, or other article of food fit for roasting.
Roasting : of Roast ;; a. & n., from Roast, v.
Rob : The inspissated juice of ripe fruit, obtained by evaporation of the juice over a fire till it acquires the consistence of a sirup. It is sometimes mixed with honey or sugar. ;; To take (something) away from by force; to strip by stealing; to plunder; to pillage; to steal from. ;; To take the property of (any one) from his person, or in his presence, feloniously, and against his will, by violence or by putting him in fear. ;; To deprive of, or withhold from, unjustly or injuriously; to defraud; as, to rob one of his rest, or of his good name; a tree robs the plants near it of sunlight. ;; To take that which belongs to another, without right or permission, esp. by violence.
Robalo : Any of several pikelike marine fishes of the West Indies and tropical America constituting the family Oxylabracidae, esp. the largest species (Oxylabrax, syn. Centropomus, undecimalis), a valuable food fish called also snook, the smaller species being called Rob`a*li"to (/).
Roband : See Roperand.
Robbed : of Rob
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