Same as rose- 
Same as rose- 
1. Having rosy 
rose-burner 
resemble the petals of a flower. Also called 
rosette-burner, 
rose-bush (roz'bush), . A shrub which bears 
roses, commonly of a bushy habit. 
rose-camphor (r6z'kam"fer), . One of the 
two volatile oils composing attar of roses. It 
is a stearoptene, and is solid. 
rose-campion (r6z'kam"pi-on), . A pretty 
garden flower, Lychnis coronaria. The plant is a 
branching woolly herb, covered in summer and autumn 
with rosy-crimson blossoms. Also mullen-pink. 
rose-carnation (roz'kar-na'shon), H. A carna- 
tion the ground-color of whose petals is striped 
with rose-color. 
And many a rose-carnation feed 
With summer spice the humming air. 
Tennyson, In Memoriam, ci. 
rose carthame. A color used in water-color 
painting. See Cartliamns. 
rose-catarrh (roz'ka-tar"), 
cold. 
rose-chafer (r6z'cha"fer), n 
beetle or rose-bug. 
rose-cheeked (roz'chekt), a. 
or ruddy cheeks. 
Rose-cheek'd Adonis hied him to the chaae. 
Shak. , Venus and Adonis, 1. 3. 
2. Having rose-red on the cheeks, as a bird : 
as, the rose-cheeked kingfisher, Ispidina picta, 
of Africa. 
rose-cold (roz'kold), n. A form of hay-fever 
developing early in the summer. Also called 
rose-catarrh, rose-fever. 
rose-color (roz'kul"or), n. 1. The color of a 
rose; specifically, a deep and vivid pink, a 
color common in roses. See rose 1 , a. Hence 
2. Beauty or attractiveness, as of a rose; of- 
ten, fancied beauty or attractiveness ; couleur 
de rose : as, life appears to the young all rose- 
color. 
rose-colored (rdz'kuFord), a. 1. Having the 
color of a rose; rosy: as, the rose-colored pas- 
tors, the starlings of the genus Pastor. See 
cut under Pastor. 2. Uncommonly beautiful ; 
hence, extravagantly fine or pleasing: as, rose- 
colored views of the future. 
She believed her husband was a hero of a rose-colored 
romance, and he turns out to be not even a hero of very 
sad-colored reality. H. James, Jr., Pass. Pilgrim, p. 426. 
rose-comb (roz'kom), n. See conilA, 3. 
rose-copper (i'6z'kop"er), n. Same as rosette- 
copper. 
rose-cross (roz'kros), n. and a. I. . 1. [cap.'} 
[See Rosicrucian.} A Rosicrucian. 2. A rosy 
cross, the alleged symbol of the Rosicrucians, 
supposed to denote the union of a rose with a 
cross : indicated by a cross within a circle, a 
rose on a cross, and otherwise. See crucified 
rose and mystic rose, under rose*. Also called 
rosie-cross, rosy cross, rosier ux, rosecroix, etc. 
II. a. [cap.] Rosicrucian. 
That stone of which so many have us told, . . . 
The great Elixir, or ... 
The Rose-Cross knowledge. 
Drayton, To Master William Jeffreys. 
rose-cut (roz'kut), a. Cut with a series of tri- 
angular facets, the whole surface rounding up 
from the girdle. The number of triangular faces on the 
upper side of the girdle is usually twenty-four. The back 
is usually flat that is, the girdle is at one extreme of the 
stone, having no base projecting beyond it. In some cases, 
however, there is a base resembling a crown ; then the cut 
is called the double or Holland rose. 
rose-drop (roz'drop), re. 1. A lozenge flavored 
with rose-essence. 2. An ear-ring. 3. A 
pimple on the nose caused by drinking ardent 
spirits ; a grog-blossom ; acne. 
rose-ear (roz'er), . A dog's ear which hangs 
so as to show the flesh-colored inside. 
rose-engine (r6z'en"jm), . A form of lathe 
in which the rotary motion of the mandrel may 
be combined with a radial movement of the 
tool-rest, the result 
being a movement of 
eccentric character. 
An eccentric chuck is also 
used with a stationary 
tool-rest, or the work in the 
lathe is, by means of suit- 
able mechanism, made to 
oscillate slightly. What- 
ever the method used, the 
result is the tracing on a 
flat surface, such as the 
back of a watch-case, of a 
series of waved or circular ^-iii^i^*^ 
lines which may be con- Specimen of Engine-turning, 
siaered to bear some resem- 
blance to a full-blown rose. The rose-engine is used to 
make complicated ornamental tracings on the engraved 
plates used for printing bank-notes, bonds, etc., and in 
decorating watch-cases and other metal-work. The work 
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performed by it is called engine-turning. Also called geo- 
metrical lathe. 
rose-encrinite (roz'en"kri-mt), n. A rhodocri- 
iiite. 
rose-festival (r6z'fes'-ti-val),M. A festival cele- 
brated on June 8, which had its origin at the vil- 
lage of Saleney, near Noyon, in France. A girl is 
selected from three most distinguished for feminine vir- 
tues, her name being announced from the pulpit to give 
an opportunity for objections. She is then conducted to 
church, where she hears service in a place of honor, after 
which she formerly used to open a ball with the seigneur. 
She is called La liosiere, because she is adorned with roses 
held together by a silver clasp presented by Louis XIII. 
The festival has been imitated at other places in France, 
at many of which the rosiere receives a purse or a dower 
from a foundation established for the purpose. 
rose-fever (roz'fe"ver), n. Same as rose-cold. 
rose-fish (roz'fish), n. A scorpa3noid fish, the 
Norway haddock, Sebastes marinus. It inhabits 
both coasts of the North Atlantic ; it is mostly orange-red. 
Also called mapper, bergylt, redfish, etc. See cut under 
Sebastes. 
rose-fly (roz'fll), n. Same as rose-beetle, 1, or 
rose-bug. 
rose-flycatcher (roz 'fli // kach-er) , n. One of the 
American fly-catching warblers of the genus 
CardelKita, as C. rubra and C. rubrifrons. They 
are small insectivorous birds related to the redstart (Seta- 
phaya). of rich or varied coloration, of which rose-red is 
one tint. Those named reach the border of the United 
States from Mexico. 
rose-gall (roz'gal), . A gall produced on roses 
by an insect, as the cynipid Rhodites rosie. 
rose-geranium (roz'je-ra"ni-um), n. A common 
house-plant, Pelargonium capitatnm, with rose- 
scented leaves and small rose-purple flowers. 
rose-haw (roz'ha), n. The fruit of the wild 
rose; a rose-hip. [Colloq.] 
Redly gleam the rose-haws, dripping with the wet, 
Fruit of sober autumn, glowing crimson yet. 
Celia Thaxter, May Morning. 
rose-house (roz'hous), . In hort., a glass house 
for the propagation of roses, or for the forcing 
of roses into bloom. 
rose-hued (roz'hud), a. Of the hue or color of 
the rose ; rose-colored. 
Many a dark delicious curl, 
Flowing beneath her rose-hued zone. 
Tennyson, Arabian Nights. 
roseine (ro'ze-in), n. [< rose 1 + -ine 2 .} Same 
as fuchsin. 
rose-knot (roz'not), . 
worsted, or 
other soft ma- 
terial. 
rose-lashing 
(roz'lasb/'ing), 
n. Naut., a 
kind of lash- 
ing or seizing 
employed in 
binding anything on a spar: so termed from 
the rose-like form in which the end of the seiz- 
ing is secured. 
rose-lathe (roz'laTH), . A lathe fitted with a 
rose-engine. 
rose-leaf (roz'lef), n. [< MB. rose-lef; < rose 1 
+ leaf.} One of the petals of a rose. 
roselet (roz'let), . [< F. roselet, the stoat or 
ermine in summer when brown, not white, < 
rose, rose: see rose 1 .] The fur of the ermine, 
Putorius erminea, as taken from the animal in 
the summer. 
roselette (roz'let), n. [< OF. *roselettc, dim. of 
rose, a rose: see rose 1 .] In her., a rose, when 
many are used on a field at once. Compare 
lioncel. 
rose-lip (roz'lip), n. A lip of a rosy or red-ripe 
color. Tennyson, Adeline, i. 
rose-lipped (roz'lipt), a. Having red or rosy 
lips. [Rare.] 
Thou young and rose-lipp'd cherubin. 
Shak., Othello, iv. 2. 63. 
roselite (ro'ze-lit), n. [=Gc.roseUth; named after 
Gustav Rose, a German naturalist (1798-1873).] 
A hydrous arseniate of cobalt and calcium, oc- 
curring in small red triclinic crystals at Schnee- 
berg in Saxony. 
rosella (ro-zel'a), . [NL., < L. rosa, rose: see 
rose 1 .] A beautiful Australian parrot, Platij- 
cercus eximins, the rose-parrakeet. This is a favor- 
ite cage-bird, elegantly varied with scarlet, green, blue, 
yellow, white, and other colors. There are many similar 
birds of the same genus. See cut in next column. 
rosella-fiber (ro-zera-fi"ber), n. See roselle. 
rosellate (ro-zel'at), a. [< NL. "rosella, dim. of 
L. rosa, rose (see rose 1 ), + -ate 1 ."} In cot, dis- 
posed like the petals of a rose, or in rosettes : 
said of leaves. 
roselle (ro-zel'), n. [Also rozette, rouselk ; < 
XL. roselta : of. F. oseille, sorrel.] An East In- 
rosen 
A rosette of ribbon, 
Rose-lashing. 
Rosella (Platycerrus eximiut). 
dian rose-mallow, Hibiscus Sabdariffa, widely 
cultivated in the tropics, where its pleasantly 
acidulous calyxes are used for tarts, jellies, 
etc., and for making a cool refreshing drink. 
It yields also a fiber sparingly substituted for hemp, 
known as roselle-hemp or rosella- fiber. In the West Indies 
the plant is called Indian or red sorrel. Also called sab- 
darifa. 
rose-mallow (roz'mal"6), n. See mallow. 
rose-maloes (roz'mal"6z), . [An Anglo-Ma- 
layan modification of rasatnala, q. v.] A kind 
of liquid storax obtained from the East Indian 
Altingia excelsa. 
rosemarinet, n. Same as rosemary. 
rosemary (roz'ma-ri), n. [Formerly also ros- 
mary ; < ME. rosemary, altered (in simulation 
of rosa Mariee, 'Mary's rose') from rosemarine, 
rosemaryne, rosemaryn, ros- 
marin, < OF. rosmarin, ro- 
marin, F. romarin = Pr. ro- 
mani, romanin = Sp. rosma- 
rino, romero = Pg. rosma- 
ninho = It. rosmarino, rame- 
rino = D. rozemarijn, rosma- 
rijn = G. Dan. Sw. rosmarin, 
< L. rosmarinus, rosmarinum, 
prop, two words, ros marinus 
or marinus ros, rosemary, lit. 
' marine dew,' sea-dew (call- 
ed ros maris, 'dew of the sea,' 
by Ovid): ros (ror-), dew; 
marinus, marine: see roreS 
and marine.} An evergreen 
shrub, Rosmarinus officinalis, 
native in southern Europe, 
widely cultivated. (See 7?os- 
marinus. ) It has a fragrant smell, 
and a warm, pungent, bitterish 
taste. It yields by distillation a 
light pale essential oil of great 
fragrance, which is extensively 
employed in the manufacture of 
pomatums for the hair. Its leaves 
are gently stimulant, and are used to some extent in Euro- 
pean medicine. 
There 's rosemary, that 's for remembrance. 
Shak., Hamlet, iv. 5. 175. 
Some sign of mourning was shown by every one, down 
to the little child in its mother's arms, that innocently 
clutched the piece of rosemary to be thrown into the 
grave "for remembrance." 
Mrs. Gaskell, Sylvia's Lovers, vi. 
Rosemary-moorwort. Same as wild rosemary (a). 
Rosemary-pine. See loblolly-pine. Wild rosemary. 
(a) A plant, the Andromeda poHfQlia. (b) See Ledum. 
rose-molding (rdz'rnoFding), . In arch., a 
molding orna- 
mented with 
roses. Very beau- 
tiful examples with 
conventionalized yet 
naturalistic treat- 
ment of the flowers 
and climbing vine 
occur in French work 
of the thirteenth cen- 
tury. 
rose-money(roz'- 
mun"i), . A 
name sometimes 
given to screw- 
dollars or screw- 
medals. 
rosent (ro'zn), a. 
[< ME. rosen, < 
AS. rosen, made 
of roses, < rose, a 
rose : see rose 1 
and -CM 2 .] 1. 
Roseate ; rose- 
i>nlnvorl viirMt7 Rose-molding. ijth century. (From the 
Bfl , ruaay. p<, rte R OU g C , fr otr e Dame de Paris.) 
Rosem; 
r, the upper part of the 
stem, with flowers; z, the 
lowerpartof the stem; a, 
a flower; >, a leaf, seen 
from below, showing the 
revolute margin. 
