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  • English Word Rosette Definition A red color. See Roset.
  • English Word Rosette Definition A rose burner. See under Rose.
  • English Word Rosette Definition Any structure having a flowerlike form; especially, the group of five broad ambulacra on the upper side of the spatangoid and clypeastroid sea urchins. See Illust. of Spicule, and Sand dollar, under Sand.
  • English Word Rosette Definition A flowerlike color marking; as, the rosettes on the leopard.
  • English Word Rosewood Definition A valuable cabinet wood of a dark red color, streaked and variegated with black, obtained from several tropical leguminous trees of the genera Dalbergia and Machaerium. The finest kind is from Brazil, and is said to be from the Dalbergia nigra.
  • English Word Roseworm Definition The larva of any one of several species of lepidopterous insects which feed upon the leaves, buds, or blossoms of the rose, especially Cacaecia rosaceana, which rolls up the leaves for a nest, and devours both the leaves and buds.
  • English Word Rosewort Definition Roseroot.
  • English Word Rosewort Definition Any plant nearly related to the rose.
  • English Word Rosicrucian Definition One who, in the 17th century and the early part of the 18th, claimed to belong to a secret society of philosophers deeply versed in the secrets of nature, -- the alleged society having existed, it was stated, several hundred years.
  • English Word Rosicrucian Definition Of or pertaining to the Rosicrucians, or their arts.
  • English Word Rosied Definition Decorated with roses, or with the color of roses.
  • English Word Rosier Definition A rosebush; roses, collectively.
  • English Word Rosily Definition In a rosy manner.
  • English Word Rosin Definition The hard, amber-colored resin left after distilling off the volatile oil of turpentine; colophony.
  • English Word Rosin Definition To rub with rosin, as musicians rub the bow of a violin.
  • English Word Rosiness Definition The quality of being rosy.
  • English Word Rosinweed Definition The compass plant. See under Compass.
  • English Word Rosinweed Definition A name given in California to various composite plants which secrete resins or have a resinous smell.
  • English Word Rosiny Definition like rosin, or having its qualities.
  • English Word Rosland Definition heathy land; land full of heather; moorish or watery land.
  • English Word Rosmarine Definition Dew from the sea; sea dew.
  • English Word Rosmarine Definition Rosemary.
  • English Word Rosmarine Definition A fabulous sea animal which was reported to climb by means of its teeth to the tops of rocks to feed upon the dew.
  • English Word Rosolic Definition Pertaining to, or designating, a complex red dyestuff (called rosolic acid) which is analogous to rosaniline and aurin. It is produced by oxidizing a mixture of phenol and cresol, as a dark red amorphous mass, C20H16O3, which forms weak salts with bases, and stable ones with acids. Called also methyl aurin, and, formerly, corallin.
  • English Word Ross Definition The rough, scaly matter on the surface of the bark of trees.
  • English Word Ross Definition To divest of the ross, or rough, scaly surface; as, to ross bark.
  • English Word Rossel Definition Light land; rosland.
  • English Word Rossel current Definition A portion of the southern equatorial current flowing westward from the Fiji Islands to New Guinea.
  • English Word Rosselly Definition Loose; light.
  • English Word Rost Definition See Roust.