Usage examples (26)

• The man who lost his life against a henroost, is in the same pickle with him who lost his life against a fortified place of the first order.
• As I write, the bilious countenance of a culprit is peeping through the iron grates of a window, who, may be, is atoning for having invaded a henroost or bagged an...
• The cold gray light of early dawn had given place to saffron, and the first drowsy challenge from the henroost had been shrilly answered from far and near, when old man...
• Bradshaw was to have privileges which were refused to a boy who had robbed a henroost.