'Suburb roister' definitions:

Definition of 'Suburb roister'

From: GCIDE
  • Suburb \Sub"urb\, n. [L. suburbium; sub under, below, near + urbs a city. See Urban.]
  • 1. An outlying part of a city or town; a smaller place immediately adjacent to a city; in the plural, the region which is on the confines of any city or large town; as, a house stands in the suburbs; a garden situated in the suburbs of Paris. "In the suburbs of a town." --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • [London] could hardly have contained less than thirty or forty thousand souls within its walls; and the suburbs were very populous. --Hallam. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Hence, the confines; the outer part; the environment. "The suburbs . . . of sorrow." --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
  • The suburb of their straw-built citadel. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • Suburb roister, a rowdy; a loafer. [Obs.] --Milton. [1913 Webster]