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- English Word Rorulent Definition Having the surface appearing as if dusty, or covered with fine dew.
- English Word Rory Definition Dewy.
- English Word Rosaceous Definition Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Rosaceae) of which the rose is the type. It includes also the plums and cherries, meadowsweet, brambles, the strawberry, the hawthorn, applies, pears, service trees, and quinces.
- English Word Rosaceous Definition Like a rose in shape or appearance; as, a rosaceous corolla.
- English Word Rosaceous Definition Of a pure purpish pink color.
- English Word Rosacic Definition Pertaining to, or designating, an acid (called also lithic acid) found in certain red precipitates of urine. See Uric.
- English Word Rosalgar Definition realgar.
- English Word Rosalia Definition A form of melody in which a phrase or passage is successively repeated, each time a step or half step higher; a melodic sequence.
- English Word Rosaniline Definition A complex nitrogenous base, C20H21N3O, obtained by oxidizing a mixture of aniline and toluidine, as a colorless crystalline substance which forms red salts. These salts are essential components of many of the socalled aniline dyes, as fuchsine, aniline red, etc. By extension, any one of the series of substances derived from, or related to, rosaniline proper.
- English Word Rosarian Definition A cultivator of roses.
- English Word Rosaries Definition of Rosary
- English Word Rosary Definition A bed of roses, or place where roses grow.
- English Word Rosary Definition A series of prayers (see Note below) arranged to be recited in order, on beads; also, a string of beads by which the prayers are counted.
- English Word Rosary Definition A chapelet; a garland; a series or collection, as of beautiful thoughts or of literary selections.
- English Word Rosary Definition A coin bearing the figure of a rose, fraudulently circulated in Ireland in the 13th century for a penny.
- English Word Roscid Definition Containing, or consisting of, dew; dewy.
- English Word Roscoelite Definition A green micaceous mineral occurring in minute scales. It is essentially a silicate of aluminia and potash containing vanadium.
- English Word Rose Definition imp. of Rise.
- English Word Rose Definition A flower and shrub of any species of the genus Rosa, of which there are many species, mostly found in the morthern hemispere
- English Word Rose Definition A knot of ribbon formed like a rose; a rose knot; a rosette, esp. one worn on a shoe.