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- 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.