roof (n.)
- abode
- address
- apex
- bonnet
- building
- bulkhead
- cantonment
- cap
- casa
- ceiling
- chamber
- clerestory
- coif
- consulate
- cork
- crest
- crib
- crown
- cupola
- dacha
- deanery
- dome
- domicile
- dwelling
- eaves
- edifice
- embassy
- erection
- fabric
- farm
- farmhouse
- fireplace
- fireside
- foyer
- habitation
- hall
- hat
- haven
- hearth
- hearthstone
- home
- homestead
- hood
- house
- houseboat
- household
- housetop
- ingle
- inglenook
- lantern
- lodge
- lodging
- lodgment
- manse
- menage
- nest
- overhead
- pad
- parsonage
- peak
- penthouse
- place
- rectory
- residence
- ridgepole
- roofing
- rooftop
- rooftree
- seat
- shelter
- shield
- shingles
- skylight
- skyscraper
- stopper
- structure
- summit
- surface
- tiles
- tip
- top
- topside
- upside
- vertex
- vicarage
roof (v.)
roof (adj.)
The oracles are dumb,
No voice or hideous hum
Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving.
Apollo from his shrine
Can no more divine,
With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving.
No nightly trance or breathed spell
Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god!
Like him in Aesop, he whipped his horses withal, and put his shoulder to the wheel.
Seven cities warred for Homer being dead,
Who living had no roofe to shrowd his head.
Under the shady roof
Of branching elm star-proof.
