Emily Dickinson Lexicon

ROSE-WA-TER, n.

Water tinctured with roses by distillation. – Encyc.

ROSE-WOOD, n.

A tree growing in warm climates, from which is obtained the oleum rhodii, an agreeable perfume, used in scenting pomatum and liniments. – Encyc.

ROS-I-CRU'CIAN, a.

Pertaining to the Rosicrucians, or their arts. Hudibras.

ROS-I-CRU'CIAN, n. [L. ros, dew, and crux, cross; dew, the most powerful dissolvent of gold, according to these fanatics, and cross, the emblem of light.]

The Rosicrucians were a sect or cabal of hermetical philosophers, or rather fanatics, who sprung up in Germany in the fourteenth century, and made great pretensions to science; and among other things, pretended to be masters of the secret of the philosopher's stone. – Encyc.

RO-SIER, n. [ro'zhur; Fr.]

A rose-bush. [Not in use.] – Spenser.

ROS'IN, n. [False orthography. See Resin.]

RO'SI-NESS, n. [s as z.]

The quality of being rosy, or of resembling the color of the rose. – Davenant.

ROS'LAND, n. [W. rhos, peat, or a moor.]

Healthy land; land full of ling; moorish or watery land.

ROS'PO, n.

A fish of Mexico, perfectly round, without scales, and good for food. – Clavigero.

ROSS, n. [Qu. G. graus, rubbish.]

The rough, scaly matter on the surface of the bark of certain trees. – New England.

ROSS'EL, n.

Light land. [Not used in America.] – Mortimer.

ROSS'EL-LY, a.

Loose; light. [Not in use.] – Mortimer.

ROS'SET, n.

The large ternate bat.

ROS'SIG-NOL, n. [Fr. id; It. rosignuolo.]

The nightingale. – Asiat. Res.

ROS'TEL, n. [L. rostellum, dim. of rostrum, a beak.]

In botany, the descending plane part of the corcle or heart, in the first vegetation of a seed. – Martyn.

ROS'TEL-LATE, a.

Having a rostel.

ROS-TEL'LI-FORM, a.

Having the form of a rostel.

ROS'TER, n. [A corruption of register.]

In military affairs, a plan or table by which the duty of officers is regulated. – Brit. Mil. Journal. In Massachusetts, a list of the officers of a division, brigade, regiment or battalion, containing, under several heads, their names, rank, the corps to which they belong, date of commission, and place of abode. These are settled division rosters, brigade rosters, regimental or battalion rosters. The word is also used frequently instead of register, which comprehends a general list of all the officers of the state, from the commander in chief to the lowest in commission, under the same appropriate heads, with an additional column for noting the alterations which take place. – W. H. Sumner.

ROS'TRAL, a. [from L. rostrum, beak.]

1. Resembling the beak of a ship. – Tatler.
2. Pertaining to the beak.

ROS'TRATE, or ROS'TRA-TED, a. [L. rostratus.]

1. In botany, beaked; having a process resembling the beak of a bird. – Martyn.
2. Furnished or adorned with beaks; as, rostrated galleys.

ROS'TRI-FORM, a.

Having the form of a beak. – Kirby.

ROS'TRUM, n. [L.; W. rhetgyr, a snout, or rhethren, a pike.]

1. The beak or bill of a bird.
2. The beak or head of a ship.
3. In ancient Rome, a scaffold or elevated place in the forum, where orations, pleadings, funeral harangues, &c., were delivered.
4. The pipe which conveys the distilling liquor into its receiver, in the common alembic.
5. A crooked pair of scissors, used by surgeons for dilating wounds. – Coxe. Quincy.

RO'SY, a. [from rose.]

1. Resembling a rose in color or qualities; blooming; red; blushing; charming. While blooming youth and gay delight / Sit on thy rosy cheeks confest. – Prior. The rosy morn resigns her light. Waller.
2. Made in the form of a rose. B. Jonson.

RO'SY-BO-SOM-ED, a.

Embosomed among roses. Gray.

RO'SY-CROWN-ED, a.

Crowned with roses. Gray.