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ROSE ISLAND, Great and Little, two small islands 
among the Bahamas; 12 miles north of Providence. 
ROSE ISLAND, an island in the North Pacific ocean, 
near the west coast of America. Lat. 59. 35. N. long. 
146. 50. W. 
ROSE RIVER, a river of North America, which rises on 
the eastern side of the Rocky mountains, and falls into the 
Yellow Stone. It is so called from the number of beautiful 
roses which bloom on its banks. 
RO'SEAL, adj. [roseus , Lat.] Rosy; like a rose in 
smell or colour. 
From rosea l Aurora’s door 
Fair Titan shak’d his locks, and marched out. Beaumont. 
The rich and roseal spring of those rare sweets. Crashaw. 
ROSE-ASH, a parish of England, in Devonshire; 6 miles 
east-south-east of South Moulton. 
RO'SEATE, adj. Rosy; full of roses. 
I come, ye ghosts, prepare your roseate bowers, 
Celestial palms, and ever-blooming flowers. Pope. 
Blooming; fragrant; purple, as a rose. 
Here pride has struck her lofty sail 
That roam’d the world around; 
Here roseate beauty cold and pale 
Has left the power to wound. Boyle. 
ROSEAU, or Charlotte Town, the capital of Dominica 
in the West Indies. It is situated about seven leages from 
Prince Rupert’s bay. It is on a point of land on the south¬ 
west side of the island, which forms two bays, viz. Wood- 
bridge’s bay on the north, and Charlotteville bay to the south¬ 
ward. Roseau is about half a mile in length from Charlotte¬ 
ville to Roseau river, and mostly two furlongs in breadth, but 
is of an irregular figure. It contains more than 500 houses, 
besides cottages occupied by negroes. Whilst in possession 
of the French, it contained upwards of 1000 houses. Lat. 
15. 25. N. long. 61. 27. W. 
ROSEBERRY TOPPING, a hill of England, in York¬ 
shire, 1022 feet in height. 
ROSEBURGH, a post town of the United States, in 
Armstrong county, Pennsylvania. 
ROSED ALE, East and West, two villages of England, 
North Riding of Yorkshire; 10 miles north-west of Pickering. 
RO'SED, adj. Crimsoned; flushed.-—Can you blame 
her, being a maid yet rosed over with the virgin crimson of 
modesty, if she deny the appearance of a naked blind boy ? 
Shakspeare. 
ROSE ENGINE, Rose Lathe, or Figure Lathe, in 
the Mechanic Arts, is a machine used for turning any articles 
in wood, ivory, or metal, in the same manner as a common 
lathe, but it has additional parts, by which the surface of the 
subject which has been turned, can afterwards be engraved 
with a great variety of patterns of curved lines, which in 
general, are denominated from the French rosette, from a 
slight general resemblance which they have to a full-blown 
rose, and hence the machine is called a rose engine. See 
Turning. 
ROSEHEARTY, a fishing village of Scotland, in Aber¬ 
deenshire, in the parish of Pitsligo. It has a tolerable har¬ 
bour, 'where vessels may deliver their cargoes during the sum¬ 
mer months; 4 miles west of Fraserburgh, and 18 east of 
Banff. Population 200. 
ROSELAND, a fertile vale of England, in Cornwall, 
lying between a creek of Falmouth haven and Tregony. 
ROSELESTON, a parish of England, in Derbyshire; 4| 
miles south-by-west of Burton-upon-Trent. 
RO'SE-MALLOW, s. A plant larger than the common 
mallow. 
ROSEMARKET, a village of Wales, in the county of 
Pembroke, once a considerable market town. The woollen 
manufactures were introduced here by a settlement of Flem¬ 
ings ; and here are the remains of Rose castle, which was 
built by them; 4 miles from Haverford West. 
ROSEMARKIE, a parish of Scotland, in Ross-shire, 6 
miles long, and 3 broad, lying on the shore of the frith 
R O S 
of Cromarty, with a bold and rocky coast, abounding in 
romantic views and tremendous precipices. Population 1312. 
RO'SEMARY, s. \ros?narinus, Lat. rosmarin, Fr. ros- 
marjn, Teut. And so our old form of rosemary. “ His 
herbe propre is rosemarine." Gower, Cons. Am. B. 7.] 
A verticillate plant. See Rosmarinus. 
Bedlam beggars, with roaring voices, 
Strike in their numb’d and mortify’d bare arms 
Pins, wooden pricks, nails, sprigs of rosemary; 
And with this horrible object, from low farms. 
Inforce their charity. Shakspeare. 
Around their cell 
Set rows of rosemary with flowering stem. Dryden. 
The neighbours 
Follow’d with wistful look the damsel bier, 
Sprigg’d rosemary the lads and lasses bore. Gay. 
ROSE MILLS, a post village of the United States, in 
Amherst county, Virginia. 
ROSENAU, or Rosnau, a small town in the north of 
Hungary, palatinate of Gomer, on the river Sajo. It is the 
see of a bishop, and is inhabited by a mixed race, the 
descendants of Germans, Hungarians, and Sclavonians, 
partly Catholics, and partly Lutherans. In the neighbour¬ 
hood are mines of iron, copper, quicksilver, and cinnabar, 
but particularly of antimony; one of which, called the 
Rose, gives name to the place. In 1766, this town received 
great injury from fire. Population 3200; 9 miles north¬ 
east of Gomer, and 24 north of Caschau. 
ROSENAU, a market town and strong castle of Transyl¬ 
vania, in the district of Cronstadt, inhabited by descendants 
of Saxon settlers; 7 miles south-west of Cronstadt. 
ROSENBERG, a small town of the north-west of Hun¬ 
gary, on the Waag, with 2100 inhabitants; 23 miles north- 
by-east of Neusohl. 
ROSENBERG, a small town of Germany, in Bavarian 
Franconia, near Wurzburgh. 
ROSENBERG, a small town of West Prussia; 11 miles 
east of Marienwerder, with 1100 inhabitants. 
ROSENBERG, a small town of Bohemia, on the Moldau, 
close to the borders of Austria, with 1200 inhabitants; 22 
miles south of Budweis. Near it is a small lake called the 
Rosenberger Teich. 
ROSENBERG, a fortress of Bavarian Franconia, in the 
principality of Branberg, near Cronach. 
ROSENBERG, a small town of the west of Germany, in 
Baden; population 800; 37 miles east-by-north of Hei- 
delburgh. 
ROSENBERG, a small town of Prussian Silesia; 24 
miles east-north-east of Oppeln, with 1400 inhabitants. 
ROSENBERG, Great, a village of Prussian Saxony, on 
theSaale; 16 miles south-south-east of Magdeburgh. Po¬ 
pulation 1000. 
ROSENDORF, a village in the north of Bohemia; 28 
mileseast-south-east of Dresden, with 1000 inhabitants. 
ROSENEAT H, a parish of Scotland, the most westerly of 
Dumbartonshire, being a peninsula nearly in the form of a 
parallelogram, about 7 miles long, and 2 broad. Popula¬ 
tion 747. 
ROSENESS, a cape on the south coast of the island of 
Pomono. Lat. 58. 45. N. long. 2, 42. W. 
ROSENFIELD, a small town of the west of Germany, 
in Wirtemberg, with 1000 inhabitants; 38 miles south-south¬ 
west of Stutgard. 
ROSENGYN, one of the Banda isles, about 7 miles south¬ 
east of Lantore. It produces nutmegs, mace, and some yarn?, 
and feeds a few cattle. When the island was in possession 
of the Dutch, the convicts of Amboyna used to be kept on 
it, and were compelled to cultivate the land for the use of the 
supreme government. 
ROSENHEIM, a small town of Bavaria, on the river Inn. 
It has manufactures of copper and brass, the only manufac¬ 
tures of the kind in the kingdom. It has also salt works, the 
brine for which is conducted thither by canals from the salt 
springs 
