rose 
pan or Japanese rose, one of various true roses, as Rosa 
multijlora, the many-flowered rose, and R. rugosa. The 
name is also applied to plants of the genus Camellia. 
Macartney rose, Rosa bracteata, introduced from China, 
an evergreen climber, the source of a small group of 
varieties. It is not hardy in the northern United States, 
but in the South is used for hedges and is sometimes spon- 
taneous. Malabar rose, a shrubby East Indian rose-mal- 
low, Hibiscus hirtus (S. rosa-malaoarica). Many-flow- 
ered rose, a Japanese species, Rosa multijlora, the source 
of several varieties: not hardy in the northern United 
States. Michigan rose. Same as prairie- rose. Month- 
ly rose, one iof a class of perpetuals derived from the 
China rose; a Bengal rose. Musk-rose, Rosa moschata, 
found in southern Europe, Abyssinia, and in Asia to China: 
a tall climber and profuse bloomer with strongly scented 
flowers, long known in cultivation, but not hardy. Mystic 
rose, a vague phrase empty of real meaning, frequent in 
Kosicrucian literature, especially in the phrase crucifixion 
oj the mystic rose. See Rosicrucian. Noisette rose. See 
def. 1. Nutka rose, -ftoi Sutkana of northwestern North 
America, the most showy western wild rose, with larger 
flowers and fruit than any other American species. Oil 
Of roses. See oil and attar. tale rose, in the pharma- 
copoeias, same as hundred-leaved rose. Pompon-rose, the 
name of miniature varieties of Rosa centifotia or of R. In- 
dica (Bengal pompons). Prairie-rose, Rosa setigera, com- 
mon in the interior of the United States. It is the only 
American climber, a vigorous grower, the flowers large and 
abundant in corymbs. Also climbing and Michigan rose. 
See cut under def. 1. Provence, Provins rose. Same as 
cabbage-rose. Provincial rose. See provincial?. Red 
rose, (a) The badge of the house of Lancaster, (b) Spe- 
cifically, the French rose. Rose bengale. Same as Ben- 
gal red (which see, under redl). Rose cut. See cut. 
Rose drill See drii. Rose du Barry, in ceram., a 
pink or light-crimson color in porcelain-decoration, named 
from Madame du Barry, mistress of Louis XV. See rose 
Pompadour. Rose family, (a) A name given by some 
writers to a division of the porcelain of China in which red 
prevails, and which is marked by the abundant use of en- 
ameled color in perceptible relief above the background. 
(b) In bot., the order Rosaceet. Rose of Jericho. See 
Anattatica. Rose of Plymouth. See Sabbatia. Rose 
Of Sharon, (a) In Scrip. (Cant. ii. 1). the autumn crocus 
[so explained in R. V. margin] ; perhaps Colchicum au- 
tumnale. (b) A St-John's-wort, Hypericum calycinum. 
Britten and Holland, Eng. Plant-names. (Prov. Eng.] (c) 
Same as althsea, 2. [U. S.] Rose Pompadour, a rose- 
pink or light-crimson color of the Sevres porcelain, imi- 
tated by other factories : a name derived from the Mar- 
quise de Pompadour: called later rose du Barry, as a 
compliment to Madame du Barry. The second name is 
more commonly heard in England, though it is less cor- 
rect, the name rose Pompadour having been given when 
the color was first introduced. Scotch rose. See def. 1. 
South-sea rose, the oleander. [Jamaica.] Sun-rose, 
the rock-rose, Helianthemum. Swamp-rose, Rosa Car- 
olina, common in the eastern United States, forming 
thickets in swampy ground. Tea-rose, or tea-scented 
rose. See def. 1. Tudor rose, in her., a combination of 
two heraldic roses, one gules and the other argent. Some- 
times one of these is set upon the other, the upper being 
the smaller ; in other instances it is divided, as per cross 
or per saltier, alternately red and white. Under the rose 
(a translation of Latin sub rasa), in secret ; privately ; in a 
manner that forbids disclosure. 
Under the rose, since here are none but friends, 
(To own the truth) we have some private ends. 
Swift, Epil. to a Benefit Play, for the Distressed Weavers. 
Wars Of the Roses, in Eng. hist., the prolonged armed 
struggle between the houses of Lancaster and York : so 
called from the red rose and white rose, badges respec- 
tively of the adherents of the two families. The wars 
commenced with the first battle of St. Albans in 1455 ; 
the Yorkist claimant was killed in 1480, but his son Ed- 
ward IV. supplanted the Lancastrian king Henry VI. in 
1461; the Yorkist kings (Edward IV., Edward V., and 
Richard III.) continued in power in spite of the repeated 
efforts of Queen Margaret (wife of Henry VI. \ except for 
a brief period in 1470-71, when Henry VI. was restored. 
The contest was ended in 1486 with the death of Richard 
III. at Bosworth, and the succession of Henry VII., a Lan- 
castrian, who, by his marriage with a Yorkist princess, 
united the conflicting interests. White rose, (a) The 
badge of the house of York, (b) Specifically, Rosa alba, a 
garden rose, native in the Caucasus. Wild rose, any na- 
tive species. Wind-rose. (o)_An old name of Papaver 
Argemone. (b) See Rcemeria. Yellow rose. Specifically 
(a) Rosa lutea, (R. Eglanteria), the Austrian brier or yel- 
low eglantine, sometimes distinguished as tingle yellow 
rose, though often double. It is a summer rose of many 
varieties, with a habit like that of sweetbrier (eglantine) ; 
native from Asia Minor to the Himalayas and northward. 
(6) R. sulphurea, the double yellow rose, beautiful in warni 
climates, native from Asia Minor to Persia. York-and- 
Lancaster rose, a variegated variety of the French, also 
of the damask rose. (See also cabbage-rose, eglantine, guel- 
der-rose, Lent-rose, moss-rose, mountain-rose, rock-rose, sage- 
rose, sweetbrier.) 
II. a. Of an extremely luminous purplish-red 
color. Some rose colors are deficient in chroma, and are 
therefore varieties of pink, rose-pink; others have the most 
intense chroma, rose-reds; others incline so much toward 
purple as to be called rose-purple. 
The lights, rose, amber, emerald, blue. 
Tennyson, Palace of Art. 
Bengal rose, a coal-tar color used in dyeing, somewhat 
similar to eosin, but producing bluer shades. It is the 
sodium salt of tetra-iodo-dichlor-fluorescein. Rose el- 
der, finch, lake, linnet. See the nouns. Rose madder. 
See madder lakes, under madderl. Rose pink, porce- 
lain. See the nouns. 
rose 1 (roz), v. t. ; pret. and pp. rosed, ppr. 
rosing. [< rose*, .] 1. To render rose-colored; 
redden ; cause to flush or blush. 
A maid yet rosed over with the virgin crimson of mod- 
esty. Shak., Hen. V., v. 2. 328. 
2. To perfume as with voses. 
5230 
A rosed breath from lips rosie proceeding. 
Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, p. 234. 
rose 2 (roz). Preterit of rise*. 
rose 3 (roz), v. t. An obsolete or dialectal form 
of roose. 
rose-acacia (roz-a-ka'shia), n. The bristly or 
moss locust, Robinia hispida, from the southern 
Alleghanies, an admired shrub or small tree 
with large deep rose-colored inodorous flowers 
in racemes. 
Roseae (ro'ze-e), n. pi. [NL. (A. P. de Can- 
dolle, 1825), < Rosa + -e&.] A tribe of rosa- 
ceous plants consisting of the genus Rosa. 
roseakert, Blue vitriol. 
To have a man chased to death in such manner by 
poison after poison, first roseaker, then arsenick, then mer- 
cury sublimate, then sublimate again, it is a thing would 
astonish man's nature to hear it. 
Bacon, Accusation of Wentworth, 1615 (Works, ed. 
[Spedding, XII. 216). 
rosealt (ro'ze-al), a. [Also rosial; < L. roseiis, 
rosy (< rosal, rose), + -aZ.] Like a rose, espe- 
cially in color ; roseate. 
Beholding the rosiall colour, which was wont to be in 
his visage, tourned in to salowe. 
Sir T. Elyot, The Oovernour, ii. 12. 
The roseal cross is spread within thy field, 
A sign of peace, not of revenging war. 
Qreene, James IV., v. 
From the West returning, 
To Hi' honored Cradle of the rosiall Morning. 
Sylvester, tr. of Dn Bartas's Weeks, i. 2. 
His roseal cheeks ten thousand Graces swell'd. 
J. Beaumont, Psyche, i. 58. 
rose-aniline (roz'an'i-lin), . Same as rosani- 
line. 
rose-aphis (roz'a'fis), n. Any aphid which in- 
fests roses; a greenfly; specifically, Siphono- 
phora rosie. 
rose-apple (roz'ap'l), >/. An East Indian tree, 
Eugenia Jambos, widely cultivated in the trop- 
ics, beautiful in flower, foliage, and fruit. The 
fruit is of the size of a hen's egg, neavily rose-scented, 
only moderately palatable, wanting juice. Related spe- 
cies are to some extent included under the name. Also 
Jam-rosade and Malabar plum. 
rose-a-rubyt (roz'a-ro'bi), . [L. rosa rubea, 
red rose: rosa, rose; rubea, fern, of rubeus, red : 
see ruby.'] The pheasant's-eye, Adonis autum- 
nalis. 
roseate (ro'ze-at), a. [< L. roseus, rosy, + 
-te l . Cf. rosated.] 1. Full of roses ; consist- 
ing of roses ; prepared from roses. 
I come, I come ! prepare your roseate bowers, 
Celestial palms, and ever-blooming flowers. 
Pope, Eloisa to Abelard, 1. 817. 
Celestial Venus hover'd o'er his head, 
And roseate unguents, heav'nly fragrance ! shed. 
Pope, Iliad, xxiii. 229. 
2. Of a rose color: blooming: as, roseate beau- 
ty- 
The wind-stirred robe of roseate, gray, 
And rose-crown of the hour that leads the day. 
D. G. Rossetti, The Stream's Secret. 
Roseate spoonbill, Ajaja rosea, the common spoonbill 
of America. See cut under Ajaja. Roseate tern, Ster- 
na paradisea or 
S. dougalli, the 
paradise tern, the 
under parts of 
which, in the 
- breeding - season, 
are white with 
a delicate rosy 
blush. The man- 
tle is pale pearl- 
blue; the cap is 
black, the bill is 
black, and the 
feet are coral-red. 
The tail is long 
and deeply fork- 
ed. The length 
is 14 or 15 inches, 
the extent 30. 
This bird is com- 
mon along the At- 
lantic coast of the 
United States, 
and in many oth- 
er regions of both 
hemispheres. It was named in 1813 by Colonel Montagu 
in compliment to one of its discoverers, Dr. McDougall : 
though often called S. paradisea, the latter name, brought 
into use by Keyserling and Blasius in 1840, rests upon a 
questionable identification of a tern so called by Briin- 
nicli in 1764. Montagu's specific name was "emended" 
macdougaUi by Macgillivray in 1842. 
rose-back (roz'bak), a. In ceram., having the 
back or outside decorated richly in red, either 
plain or with an incised pattern or some 
peculiarity of texture, as some fine Oriental 
porcelain. 
rose-bay (roz'ba), . A name of several plants, 
(a) The oleander. (6) The willow-herb, Epilobium angtw- 
tifolium. (c) Any rhododendron; somewhat specially, Rho- 
dodendron maximum. Lapland rose-bay, the Lap- 
land rhododendron. See rhododendron, 2. 
rose-burner 
rose-beetle (r6z'be"tl), n. 1. A coleopterous 
insect which affects or frequents roses; espe- 
cially, Cetonia aurata, the common rose-chafer 
of Great Britain. Also called rose-fly and rose- 
Initj. 2. A curculionid beetle, AramignsfuUeri, 
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Fuller's Rose-beetle (Aramis usfulleri). 
a, full-grown larva ; b, pupa (lines showing natural sizes of a and 
) ; <', adult beetle, from side ; a, same, from above (outline between 
them showing natural size); e. eggs, enlarged and natural size ; /. left 
maxilla with palpus,enlarged ; g, nead of larva, from below, enlarged ; 
ft, same, from above, enlarged. 
more fully called Fuller's rose-beetle. S. The 
rose-chafer of the United States, Macrodactylus 
/tubsninosus. See cut under rose-bug. 
roseberry (roz'ber'i), n.; pi. roseberries (-iz). 
The fnut of the rose ; a hip. [Colloq.] 
rose-bit (roz'bit), n. A cylindrical bit, termi- 
nating in a truncated cone, the oblique sur- 
face of which is cut into teeth. It is often used 
for enlarging holes of considerable depth in 
metals and hard woods. 
rose-blanket (roz'blang'ket), n. A blanket of 
fine quality, having a rose, or a conventional de- 
vice resembling a rose, worked in one corner. 
rosebone (roz'bon), n. A fish with a deformity 
of the backbone ; a humpbacked fish, as a cod. 
rose-box (roz'boks), . A plant of the genus 
Cotoneaster. 
rose-breasted (roz'bres'ted), a. Having rose 
color on the breast, as a bird : as, the rose- 
breasted grosbeak, Zamelodia (or Habia) ludo- 
riciana. This is one of the most beautiful birds of the 
I'nlted States, abundant from the Atlantic to the Missis 
Roseate Tern {Sterna dougalli or para- 
disea). 
Rose-breasted Grosbeak (Habia Ittdtniciana). 
sippi and somewhat beyond. It is a fine songster. The 
male is black, much varied with white on the wings, tail, 
and under parts ; the bill is white ; and a patch on the 
breast and the lining of the wings are rose-red or carmine. 
It is 8 inches long and 12J in extent of wings. Rose- 
breasted godwit, the Hudsonian or red-breasted godwit, 
Limosa heemastica. 
rosebud (roz'bud), n. 1. The bud of a rose. 
Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds, before they be 
withered. Wisdom of Solomon, ii. 8. 
Hence 2. A young girl in her first bloom ; a 
debutante ; a bud. [Colloq.] 
A rosebud set with little wilful thorns, 
And sweet as English air could make her, she. 
Tennyson, Princess, Prol. 
They flutter their brief hour in society, and if they fail 
to marry as they or their friends expect, they 're so deplor- 
ably de trop. Some of them hold on like grim death to 
rosebud privileges. The Century, XL. 582. 
rose-bug (roz'bug), n. A rose-beetle. A common 
species which infests roses in the 
I'nited States is a melolonthid, Ma- 
crodactylus subspinosus, a pest in gar- 
dens and vineyards. 
Crop injured by attacks of rose-bug 
in the spring. Whether Noah was 
justifiable in preserving this class of 
insects? 
Lowell, Biglow Papers, 1st ser., Int. 
rose-burner (roz'ber"ner), 
A gas-burner in which the 
gas issues from a series of openings disposed 
radially around a center, so that the flames 
Rose -bug {Macr. 
dactylus snbspitt' 
SHS\ natural size. 
